Information on Boots Pharmacy Placement 2016

1. Member of Walgreens Boots
Alliance
Boots Pharmacy Placement 2016

2. 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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3. 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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4. Boots UK
The 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

5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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Scotland
1 - 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
Wales
24 – West Wales
25 – North East Wales
26 – North West Wales
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England
17 - Cornwall
18 - Devon
19 - Dorset
20 - Oxfordshire
21 - Gloucestershire
22 - Shropshire
23 - Hampshire
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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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