Hospital Relief Pharmacist

Are you a pharmacist looking for a new challenge? Do you have current hospital experience, or would you like to further develop your clinical skills and work in a hospital environment?
Are you full-time or part-time? We can be flexible.

We are seeking a patient focused Hospital Relief Pharmacist to join our dedicated Boots pharmacy teams on a part-time or full-time basis based at Bournemouth & Poole Hospital.

This is a great opportunity to further develop your clinical skills working in our hospital out-patient pharmacy, and to work collaboratively with the NHS Trust whilst occasionally spending time in our Boots stores within our community to widen your career portfolio.

This is an exciting opportunity for you to work within a busy service lead stores; you will have the support of a team of ACT's, dispensers and pharmacy advisors, as well as a retail management support teams.

This position comes with the opportunity to complete your independent prescribing qualification.

We will also consider newly qualified pharmacists for this position.

Pharmacy Opening Times for This Store are:

Monday to Friday 9am - 6pm
Saturday 9am - 2pm
Sunday - Closed
(Flexible working, part-time and full-time hours are always considered)

Boots offer a competitive salary, plus a generous location honorarium and a substantial performance-based annual bonus as well as many other fantastic Boots benefits including our double matched Retirement Savings Plan and out significant employee discount.

Immediate Interviews Available!

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

• Competitive base salary
• Market leading pension contributions
• Annual performance based bonus
• 33 days including bank holidays with the option to buy more
• Bespoke location benefits that could include relocation support, location allowance, location honorarium (dependent on location)
• Enhanced maternity pay
• Boots staff discount
• GPHC fees paid
• 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).
• Access to our benefits platform such as cycle to work, child care vouchers, additional holiday purchase, gym discount, dental insurance, life insurance, critical illness insurance to name a few!

• 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