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Pharmacist - Aspatria (The Lake District)

Employer
Boots
Location
Aspatria, The Lake District
Salary
Competitive Salary
Closing date
19 Nov 2019

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Role
Community Pharmacist
Sector
Large Multiple
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

Are you a Pharmacist looking for a new opportunity in the Lake District? We have an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacist to join us at our store in Aspatria. 

What’s in it 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 chance to work in the community, in local health centres and hospitals, to busy retail stores and airports, you will be able to do what 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 and customers, and your team.

Reward: You will receive a competitive company pension scheme, excellent staff discount, discretionary bonus and 25 days holiday along with having access to additional flexible benefits that allows you to create a package that suits your individual needs.

What will I be doing?

As a Pharmacist with us, it goes without saying you will be providing excellent customer and patient care that will be inspiring and reassuring. It’s more than just dispensing medicine, it’s looking after our customers and patients, listening to them and giving expert advice.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Working in partnership with the healthcare team using your own intuition, expertise and experience to deliver complete care solutions for our customers and patients
  • Setting the standard of what a brilliant pharmacy ‘looks and feels like’ from an operational perspective by working in partnership with your pharmacy technician
  • Delivering the pharmacy strategy through care conversations with customers and patients providing expert advice throughout
  • Accountable for professional pharmacy legal & ethical decisions in the pharmacy
  • Actively supporting the development, education & training of colleagues; building pharmacy capability of store teams

About You:

  • To be successful in this role you will have a professional, and caring character and true desire to help others feel good. In addition you will:
  • Be registered with relevant pharmacy Regulator (GPhC, PSNI, PSI)
  • Have excellent knowledge of pharmacy operations and provisions of national and local services
  • Role model first class communication skills, where you will hold excellent face to face interactions with all types of customers and patients
  • Thrive in a team centered approach with strong collaborative working 
  • Have a passion for keeping up to date with your own learning and development, completing all Pharmacist mandatory and directed training

For this location, we can offer a competitive enhanced reward package, that can be personalised to suit your individual circumstances.

Company

Boots is the UK’s leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer. With over 2,500* stores in the UK, ranging from local community pharmacies to large destination health and beauty stores, our purpose is to help our customers look and feel better than they ever thought possible.

From our local pharmacies to our largest flagship stores, from care homes through to hospital services, we aim to give a great pharmacy experience.

Working with the NHS

As a community pharmacy, we are a key partner to the NHS. We work closely to agree new ways for pharmacists to provide community healthcare, and design new services which meet the specific needs of the communities in which we work.

Many of our pharmacy teams work with primary care organisations, meeting local healthcare needs, and with our national voice we are helping to shape Government thinking about our nation's health.

Expanding the role of pharmacy

We are committed to extending the role of pharmacy professionals as a primary health provider, in line with Government priorities. Our team of pharmacists and pharmacy support colleagues are passionate about providing expert advice and healthcare services and we pride ourselves in having great teams to deliver all our customers' healthcare needs. These professionals are at the very heart of our business. Examples of these pharmacy services are our Travel Vaccination Service, Winter Flu Vaccination Service, Smokeless Service and Diabetes Risk Assessment Service.

*Figures as of 31 August 2016 excluding equity method investments

Company info
Website
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Boots
Telephone
0115 950 6111
Location
Boots UK Limited
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG2 3AA
GB

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