Clinical Placements Lead

Overview of the role
To work with the education providers (namely Pharmacy Schools) and internal stakeholders to create clinical placements and wider support materials that promote community pharmacy and add value to our pharmacies and business.

Main Responsibilities
- Work with the Pharmacy Schools to ensure all placements supported by Well are aligned to the Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs)
- Create a suite of tools and activities that enable students to perform EPAs in our pharmacies safely and effectively
- Support Universities with development of the materials used by students on placements
- Create and deliver professional and clinical content to Universities e.g. lectures
- Create and deliver professional and clinical content through online mechanisms to help increase our brand awareness
- Evaluate placements and use this to shape future offering
- Provide support to placement supervisors to meet the needs of the placements by upskilling them to support EPAs
- Raise awareness across the business of clinical placements and the value they add
- Lead on the relationship with the BPSA to ensure this continues to benefit the organisation
- Support internal and external comms plan to promote Well and Bestway Healthcare
- Support placement coordinator with reviewing of legal agreements for undergraduate placements and other activities where required
- Support with Schools of Pharmacy careers fairs to improve and increase brand awareness
- Liaise with internal stakeholders to provide content and support for engagement events with Universities
- Develop placements for other healthcare professionals to support the development of the integrated healthcare workforce
- Develop work experience tools, documents and processes to enable college students to gain community pharmacy experience, providing a pipeline for a variety of roles within our retail estate

**Knowledge skills & experience**:

- GPhC registered Pharmacist
- Competent in IT solutions including Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Experience of working to key objectives and managing own work and delivering to agreed timelines
- Experience of working in a collaborative capacity is essential
- Logical, methodical ways of working
- Experience of working across teams to achieve results
- Good communication skills, both written and oral including presentation skills
- Experience of data management and report writing

**Problem solving & change**:

- Prioritises workload to meet the core needs of the programmes to include daily, monthly responsibilities as well as short defined and unplanned tasks.
- Proactively sets goals and plans to deliver against objectives whilst demonstrating a positive and flexible approach
- Demonstrates the courage to seek out new challenges, directly challenging people appropriately at all levels.
- 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_.

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’**

Package Description
- Competitive salaries.
- Excellent training & development opportunities.
- Paid Holidays.
- Workplace pension scheme.
- Staff Discount.
- Travel Loans and more