Pharmacist

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 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 are seeking a patient-focused, store-based Pharmacist to join our dedicated team at our Boots pharmacy on Market Street, Crewkerne, Somerset.


Join this welcoming, established team in a really lovely store; the pharmacy dispenses approximately 1000 items weekly and has a large retail space.
This store has one main surgery and unable to offer FRPS as the surgery is run by GP consortium group.

The store is situated on Main Street in the middle of town with free parking to the rear of store

In this store you will have the support of an extremely capable and experienced pharmacy advisor, and pharmacy technician (to be appointed) as well as a strong retail management support team and a dedicated Area Manager and Director of Stores.

This position comes with the opportunity to complete your independent prescribing qualification, fully funded by 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.

Monday to Friday 9am - 5:30pm (Closed 1 hour for lunch)
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday - Closed
(Although this is a full-time opportunity, part-time is always considered)

This position offers an enhanced package! A strong base salary, PLUS a very generous location honorarium, paid every year, and a substantial performance-based annual bonus as well as many other fantastic Boots benefits including our double matched retirement savings plan and sizeable employee discount!, 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


• £100 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)