Relief Pharmacist

Relief Pharmacist

Boots UK, Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

As a Relief Pharmacist, you will provide expert patient and customer care across multiple Boots pharmacies. The role involves dispensing medication, offering professional advice, and ensuring the highest safety and quality standards in pharmacy practice.

• Deliver the pharmacy strategy by providing expert care and advice.
• Make legal and ethical decisions in the pharmacy.
• Build the pharmacy capability of store teams.
• Conduct continual reviews through audit, observations, and risk assessment to ensure customer and patient safety is paramount.
• Deliver a range of professional pharmacy services.

• Registered with a relevant pharmacy regulator (GPhC, PSNI, PSI).
• Demonstrates high levels of professional expertise and is respected by stakeholders, peers, patients, customers, and external professionals.
• Passionate about community pharmacy and providing the best care for customers.
• Collaborative with a team‑centered approach.
• Excellent knowledge of pharmacy operations and national and local services.
• Great communicator; able to put people at ease and effectively meet varied customer and patient needs.

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• 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 optional free cover for Primary Care work up to 3 days per week (subject to terms).

Senior level:
Entry level

Employment type:

Part‑time
Job function:
Health Care Provider
Industry: Retail

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all.

If successful, a member of the recruitment team will contact you to discuss your application. We discuss flexible working options, reasonable adjustments for the application process, and pre‑employment checks (DBS, PVG, or Access NI Check) as required. We consider applicants with criminal convictions on a case‑by‑case basis.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer.