Overview of the role
This is a new role to structure and will support our Offender Health contracts. This is a non-customer facing role.
Patient Safety, Quality and Standards
- Deliver regulatory, professional and NHS standards developing a culture of continual improvement
- Meet the GPhC or PSNI standards for registered professionals for all areas, including premises
- Support the delivery of all quality standards required by the NHS
- Continual review through audits, observations & risk assessments
- Responsible for legal & ethical decisions in the pharmacy and communicating effectively with other pharmacists operating within the registered premises
- Delivering Care
- Fully participates in NHS and private services, providing outstanding care to all patients
- Actively seeks ways to provide new clinical roles through independent prescribing and private services
- Responsible for the clinical and accuracy assessment of prescriptions & engaging patients in shared decision making by working collaboratively with the Customer Service Team
- Collaborates with PCN’s and LPC’s, working to improve patient health & prevent patient harm
- Ensures that they engage the team to personally offer tailored advice & products for prevention, treatment and wellbeing of patients & customers
- High Performance Team
- Supports the Digital Pharmacy Operations Manager and Team Leaders in the development of a team of trained & motivated colleagues who have the capability and are empowered to deliver excellent patient & customer care
- Constantly seeks opportunities to develop their own skills & competence, striving to operate at the top of their license
- Supports with the effective training of the team so that they achieve the required level of competence & achieve qualifications within set timeframes
- General
- Support our ‘Delivering Well’ strategy through alignment of pharmacy activity to corporate strategy
The Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate must possess an MPharm degree or equivalent and management experience is desired but not essential. You will be required to have your GPhC registration upon your start date.
Well are proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a flexible position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you.
Package Description
On top of your salary, we also offer:
- GPhC / PSNI and DBS/ PVG fees paid
- Fully supported career development
- Opportunity to become an LPC representative
- Bonus scheme
- Pension Scheme
- Generous holiday allowance
- Employee discount
We can offer consistent rotas and geographical coverage that suits you.
But there is much more we offer in terms of developing and growing your career.
You’ll be supported in your role by an Area Operations Manager and a Regional Operations Manager, with regular structured pharmacy visits
We have invested in new technologies for our pharmacies including a new PMR system and centralised dispensing to allow you to focus on providing quality care and services to our customers.
We are focussed on mental health and wellbeing which is why we’ve put all our field managers through the Mental Health Awareness course to raise awareness and enable a greater level of support when working in our pharmacies.
So you’ll have much more than just a salary package, its about you as a person and your professional career too!
About the Company
For over 70 years, we’ve been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the second largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.
Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.
The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.
We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.
We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close-knit and expert community, and feel confident in their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.
‘Together we make a difference’