Pre-registration Trainee Pharmacist: Sponsorship Available

The Opportunity:

Three Trainee Pharmacist places available for July 2024 start .

Location SL5 8QQ

• Ascot

Skilled worker sponsorship available.

The company

We are a family-run group of 28 pharmacies. The directors of this long-established and expanding group are pharmacists.

Many of our pharmacy managers trained with us and they continue to provide a friendly and efficient service.

Our Trainee Pharmacist Programme:

Together with the National Pharmacy Association we run off-site training days (including practical vaccination, first aid, and leadership training ) and mock exams. Here you learn and meet the other trainees.

There is also online training via NPA webinars and NPA e-learning modules

A varied on the job programme to enable you to:

• Be tutored and mentored by a highly experienced full-time Pharmacist Manager.
• Individually supported by a Designated Prescribing Practitioner
• Gain valuable experience of community pharmacy in a friendly working environment
• Train alongside other experienced full-time dispensary and counter staff.
• Be fully involved in providing all the pharmacy services, including provision of advice and product recommendations to patients who present at the counter with minor ailments.
• Experience a broad range of dispensing (electronic prescriptions, NHS & private & veterinary, repeat dispensing, CDs and dossette boxes)
• Experience and learn how to provide NMS, CPCS, Flu vaccination, Smoking Cessation, Supervised Methadone Consumption and Needle Exchange. You’ll also learn how to operate a Healthy Living Pharmacy.

Opportunity to rotate through our other branches to experience:

• Travel clinics
• Prescribing pharmacist clinics
• Care home dispensing

Salary and hours:

• Salary £26,000 / year
• 20% Staff discount
• 5 day working week (Monday – Friday)
• 4 weeks paid annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• The opportunity to stay with the company after completion of your training year.

Application question(s):

• Do you have a UK university M Pharm degree or have completed UK OSPAP Overseas Pharmacist Assessment Programme course from a UK university

Education:

• Bachelor’s (required)

Licence/Certification:

• UK MPharm degree or completed UK OSPAP (required)