boots pharmacy placement 2016

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Alliance

Boots Pharmacy Placement 2016

Today we want to tell you

• About our Boots Pharmacy Placement (BPP) opportunity in 2016

• What the BPP means for you and your career

• How important your location choices are to your future career with

Boots UK

• How to apply for BPP 2016

• What happens after you have submitted your application

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Why should I complete the Boots

Pharmacy Placement in 2016?

• To gain an insight into community pharmacy at Boots UK

• To have the opportunity to put into practice the knowledge and skills

learned at university with real patients

• To meet new people and learn new skills

• To better understand your future career prospects and opportunities

at Boots UK

• To spend two weeks in a Healthcare Academy Store, set up as

centres of excellence to best support your

training

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Boots UKThe UK’s leading pharmacy-led

health and beauty retailer

• 2,510* stores, 637* Boots Opticians

practices, 487* Boots Hearingcare locations

• Approximately 90%* of UK population within

10 minutes of a Boots store

• c.60,000* Boots UK colleagues with around

20,000* healthcare providers of which 6,600*

pharmacists

*As at 31 August 2015 excluding equity method investments**6 month active members as at 31 August 2015

Walgreens Boots Alliance

• Boots UK is part of the Retail Pharmacy International Division of

Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA)

• WBA is a global leader in pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing

retail. Its purpose is to help people across the world lead healthier and

happier lives.

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What support do I get through BPP?

• A Pharmacist Tutor throughout your placement

• A Teacher Practitioner on hand to help with any queries you may

have

• A specifically designed student file to help guide you through your

time in stores

• eLearning modules to support you during the placement

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Location, Location, Location

• You will be asked to choose three location preferences

– Think carefully about the choices you make – there are more

opportunities available in certain locations around the UK

• It is important to be both realistic and flexible in the

choices you make.

– We will use location choices to place our BPP 2016 candidates

– Please put your location choices in order of preference – you will

always be considered against your choices in that order

– The third location choice will be in one of our priority locations

where there are more opportunities available. If you are flexible

please select an ‘Anywhere in…’ option.

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Scotland1 - Highland and Moray

2 - Tayside

3 - Lothian and Borders

(excluding Edinburgh)

4 - Dumfries and Galloway

5 - Cumbria

6 - Northumbria

7 - Teesside

8 - East Coast

9 - East Riding

10 - South Humberside

11 - Lincolnshire

12 - East Staffordshire

13 - East Anglia North & South

14 - Kent Coastal

15 - East Sussex

16 - Isle of Wight

Wales24 – West Wales

25 – North East Wales

26 – North West Wales

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17 - Cornwall

18 - Devon

19 - Dorset

20 - Oxfordshire

21 - Gloucestershire

22 - Shropshire

23 - Hampshire

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Boots Pharmacy Placement 2016 Start dates

• For maximum flexibility we have five different start dates available over the summer for you to choose from

• You will be asked at application which dates you are available for.

– Please be as accurate as possible, and if you believe your availability might change please do not select that you are available

• Please only select that you are available if you can commit to the full two weeks

• Placement 1: Monday 20th June until Friday 1st July

• Placement 2: Monday 4th July until Friday 15th July

• Placement 3: Monday 18th July until Friday 29th July

• Placement 4: Monday 1st August until Friday 12th August

• Placement 5: Monday 15th August until 26th August

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What’s next?• Go to www.boots.jobs/early-careers/pharmacy-placement/ to apply.

Applications open on Monday 7 March 2016 at 9.00am, and will close on Friday 18 March at 4:30pm

– You will receive an email to confirm your Boots application

– You will receive another email within 24 hours which will contain the link to the online assessment

– Make sure that you complete the online assessment as without this your application is still incomplete and can’t be considered for BPP 2016

• Keep your contact details up to date on your application – it is essential that you have access to the email address, as we will contact you using that

• If you have any queries regarding the placement, please contact your Teacher Practitioner or visit the Boots Pharmacy Placement Facebook page

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Remember….• Everybody needs to make an application to be considered for BPP

2016, including current Boots colleagues and if you have complete a

Summer Placement with Boots UK previously

– If you are a current Boots colleague, you will be asked to upload

a CV – this can be a blank document as we do not require it for a

BPP application

• Please try to be flexible in your choice of location, but realistic – you

must be prepared to work there

• Make time to prepare your application, find a quiet space without

interruptions and only submit one application

• If you receive the link for the online assessment this means you

MUST complete it for your application to be submitted

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