Vacancies Digital Pharmacist - At Digital Dispensary In Stoke

Overview of the role

Our Pharmacists are clinical leaders who deliver a full range of  professional services, ensuring outstanding patient & customer care. They thrive on colleague and customer interaction and are passionate advocates of our brand. They actively seek to build meaningful & effective relationships with other healthcare professionals.

 Working  Saturday 6am - 2pm 

Main Responsibility

The 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

Key knowledge and skills required for the role:

• Qualified & registered with the GPhC or PSNI
• IP qualified (desirable) - We can put you on the IP course. 
• Excellent communication & consultation skills
• Effective coaching skills
• Strong planning & organisational ability – able to manage conflicting priorities
• Able to build & maintain highly effective relationships with internal & external stakeholders
• Excellent professional network through building relationships based on mutual trust

Problem Solving & Change:

• Has sound decision making abilities
• Is adept at identifying problems & devising solutions which are based on sound analysis
• Is a change-agent who actively embraces & consistently drives change across the Pharmacy
• Able to influence stakeholders on matters relating to their area of responsibility
• Able to understand the changing Pharmacy landscape & likely impact on the business

The Ideal Candidate

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 part time 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.

Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.

Package Description

• Competitive salaries
• Excellent training & development opportunities
• Paid Holidays
• Workplace pension scheme
• Staff Discount
• Travel Loans and more…

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’