Job Description

About Boots

We are the UK\'s leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer. With over 2500 stores in the UK, our purpose is to help our customers look and feel better than they thought possible. For almost 170 years, we have used our expertise to help improve the health and wellbeing of local communities. Boots UK is part of the Retail Pharmacy International Division of Walgreens Boots Alliance.

What you can expect:

As a Pharmacist with us, it goes without saying that you\'ll be providing excellent customer and patient care it\'s more than just dispensing medicine, it\'s listening to and inspiring others whilst giving them your expert advice and reassurance.

• Delivering the pharmacy strategy through providing expert care and advice
• Accountable for legal and ethical decisions in the pharmacy
• Building pharmacy capability of store teams
• Conducting continual review through audit, observations and risk assessment to ensure customer and patient safety is paramount
• Delivering a range of professional pharmacy services

What\'s in it for you?

Pharmacists are at the heart of our business and have been since we opened our first pharmacy 170 years ago. We know how important it is to reward the great work they do. We have a great range of benefits that go beyond salary and offer flexibility to suit you

• Competitive holiday allowance (with the option to buy more days)
• Boots Retirement Savings Plan pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption leave pay
• \xc2\xa3100 gift card for colleagues expecting/adopting a baby
• Flexible benefits scheme (via salary sacrifice) including financial wellbeing support, gym membership, holiday buying, dental cover, life assurance, restaurant discount cards, activity passes and much more (exclusions may apply, eligible roles only)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme offering free, independent and confidential counselling and support, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Generous staff discount (with enhanced discounts for Boots brands, Boot Opticians and Boots Hearingcare)
• Access to corporate third-party discounts, including retail, cinema, holidays and more (UK only)
• Access to the Boots Benevolent Fund, a registered charity that offers support to eligible current and former colleagues in the UK, as well as their immediate relatives, at times of financial hardship.
• Access to a range of learning and development resources and programmes
• Reimbursement of GPHC/GOC fees in full
• Contribution towards RPS fees
• Professional indemnity insurance with the option of selecting further free cover if you also work in Primary Care settings up to 3 days per week (subject to terms).
• Bespoke location benefits (dependant on location)

*All rewards and benefits are subject to change and eligibility.

What\'s next for you?

Career Progression:You will be able to develop your career with a wide variety of opportunities. From continuing your professional development in clinical services, to becoming one of over 2,200 Macmillan Information Pharmacists, or progressing into store management, we\'ll give you all the training and support you need from our award winning L&D team.

Variety: With the opportunity to work in the community, in local health centres, care services and hospitals, to busy retail stores and airports, you will be able to do what you love, in a store that you love. You\'ll be working in a fast paced, inspiring environment that allows you to deliver genuine care and build great relationships with your patients, customers, and your team.

What you need: To be successful in this role you will have a professional, caring character and a true desire to help others feel good. In addition you will:

• Be registered with relevant pharmacy regulator (GPhC, PSNI, PSI)
• Demonstrate high levels of professional expertise and be widely respected by stakeholders, peers, patients, customers and external local professionals
• Have a passion for community pharmacy and providing the best care for our customers.
• Have a love of working collaboratively with a team-centred approach
• Have excellent knowledge of pharmacy operations and provisions of national and local services
• Role model communication skills; you will hold excellent face to face interactions to effectively meet the varied needs of customers and patients in pharmacy

We offer a number of flexible working options to suit our colleagues needs including job share and part time working. Our website shows examples of colleagues enjoying different working patterns. If this interests you, please talk to us about it.

This role is subject to a DBS/PVG check, Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis. You will have the opportunity to discuss the matter with us before we make a decision.

Vacancy Reference Number

210676BR

Job Code

AGB_05101 Pharmacist

Area

220 - Hospitals

Company

UK Stores

Hours per week

Over 35 hours per week

Office use only

No

Region

17 - Specialist Pharmacy

Store

1970 - Northampton Hospital

Full or Part time

Full-time

Division

16 - United Kingdom

Contract Type

Permanent

Need To Know

We have an exciting and unique opportunity for a full-time or part-time Store Based Pharmacist to join our intimate and experienced team at our Outpatient pharmacy store within Northampton General Hospital. You\'ll have the opportunity to develop your clinical knowledge and career prospects whilst making the most impactful changes to the lives of the most vulnerable patients of the local community.

Northampton has everything you would require in a busy town - the transport links, retail shops, coffee shops & cafes, and eateries are in abundance, and our hospital store is within 10 minutes walk of all of this, whilst offering an M&S supermarket, multiple costa coffee shops, a subway sandwich shop and a hospital canteen within the building itself. This Pharmacist position is in a great location for anyone travelling by any means of transport.

This opportunity is to work up to 40 hours per week alongside our amazing & experienced pharmacists, technicians & pharmacy advisors already in store. Our pharmacy dispenses a huge range of drug therapies, with a busy Oncology workload and offers a tremendous amount of learning potential in the most clinical of pharmacy settings. We combine the pleasures of both hospital and community work and have an excellent relationship with our NHS trust members and our surrounding Boots stores in order to offer nothing but the highest standard of care to all our patients. All training will be provided on the job and in store.

For more information on opportunities with Boots, please contact our Regional Recruiter Alex Newton on alex.newton1@boots.co.uk

Office use only

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Office use only

52.235907,-0.884108

Function

Pharmacist

Business Area

Pharmacy

Office use only

No

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