Overview of the role
Our Talke Pharmacy has a fantastic opportunity for you to come and make a difference.
A retail centred pharmacy, which delivers on average 3.5k items per month. The pharmacy is located within Affinity Staffordshire Outlet shopping centre which attracts customers from across Staffordshire and beyond.
The pharmacy has a varied skill base which is made up of four NVQ2 qualified pharmacy assistants, with a range of contract sizes from 6.5 hours to 30 hours per week. The team within this branch are highly motivated individuals with a great work ethic, who are keen on delivering company initiatives and growing the branch through realising opportunity within the local market.
As well as dispensing day to day items, the pharmacy also delivers a wide range of NHS and private services. Including, but not limited to, NMS, Advanced Hypertension, EHC, Minor Ailments, CPCS, GPCPCS, Flu, Pneumonia and Chicken Pox vaccines. There are currently no substance misuse patients and no Care Homes serviced from this pharmacy.
The pharmacy has an expansive shop floor, which provides an attractive, large retail offering including fragrance cabinets, branded makeup ranges, luxury gift sets and more! Benefiting from a high footfall this provides a huge opportunity to drive revenue and lead a successful all-round pharmacy experience.
The branch is open Monday to Friday 10am-6pm and Saturdays 10am-5pm and we are open to discussing contractual hours ranging from 39 hours – 47 hours p/w. The successful candidate will ideally work every other Saturday.
You will be supported in your role by an Area Operations Manager headed by a Regional Operations Manager, with regular structured pharmacy visits.
The Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate must possess an MPharm degree or equivalent and management experience is required for this opportunity.
You'll be focussed on leading your team to deliver the best community pharmacy experience for your patients and customers.
You'll 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:
- Location benefits including location premium (up to £4k), relocation support (up to £8k) and Welcome to Well bonus (£5K net payment) – varies depending on location, please check with our Resourcing Team
- GPhC / PSNI and DBS/ PVG fees paid
- Opportunity to enrol onto the Independent Prescribing course
- Fully supported career development
- Bonus scheme
- Opportunity to become an LPC representative
- Pension Scheme
- Generous holiday allowance
- Employee discount
We can offer:
- Annualised contracts – so you can decide on the hours that best suit your work/life balance each year.
- 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 is the third 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’
