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Boots Pharmacy Placement 2017 for First, Second and Third Year MPharm Students

Boots UKThe UK’s leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer

• Over 2,500 Boots stores, 636* Boots Opticians practices, 490* Boots Hearingcare locations

• Over 90%* of UK population within 10 minutes of a Boots store

• Local pharmacy: Healthcare-focused community stores. We aim to reach even more of our customers where they want us and work closely with other local healthcare providers to keep local communities healthy

• Flagship store: Our widest healthcare offering, including extensive pharmacy services, Boots Opticians practices and Boots Hearingcare locations and our biggest  range  of premium beauty and exclusive brands

• c.60,000* Boots UK colleagues with around 20,000* healthcare providers of which 6,200* are pharmacists*As of 31 August 2016 excluding equity method investments

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Today we want to share with you…• Details about our Voluntary Boots

Pharmacy Placement (BPP) opportunity in 2017

• 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 2017

• What happens after you have submitted your application

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Why should I complete the Boots Pharmacy Placement in 2017?• To gain a real insight into community pharmacy at Boots UK

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

• You will receive a specifically designed student workbook and eLearning modules to help support and guide you through your time in-store with us

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Choosing your Boots Pharmacy placement 2017 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 you in a suitable store for your Boots Pharmacy placement

– 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 Moray2 - Tayside3 - Lothian and Borders (excluding Edinburgh)4 - Dumfries and Galloway

5 - Cumbria6 - Northumbria7 - Teesside8 - East Coast9 - East Riding10 - South Humberside11 - Lincolnshire12 - East Staffordshire13 - East Anglia North & South14 - Kent Coastal15 - East Sussex16 - Isle of WightWales

24 – West Wales25 – North East Wales26 – North West Wales

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17 - Cornwall18 - Devon19 - Dorset21 - Gloucestershire22 - Shropshire23 - Hampshire

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Boots Pharmacy Placement 2017 Start dates• For maximum flexibility we have even more start dates available – A total of

6 dates throughout summer period between June and September 2017. All start dates will fall on a Monday and end on a Friday

• You will be asked at application which dates you are available for – The more dates you are available for the better chance you have at securing a store within your chosen location

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

Placement number Placement start and end dates1 19 June - 30 June2 3 July - 14 July3 17 July - 28 July4 7 August - 18 August5 21 August - 1 September6 4 September - 15 September

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What’s next?• Go to

boots.jobs/early-careers/pharmacy-placement to apply. Applications open on Monday 6 February 2017 at 9:00am, and will close on Friday 24 February at 16:30pm

– 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

• If you have any queries regarding the placement, please contact your Healthcare Academy trainer or just drop us a message on the Boots Pharmacy Placement Facebook page

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Things to remember..• Everybody needs to make an application to

be considered for BPP 2017, including current Boots colleagues and if you have completed a placement with Boots UK previously. You do not need to complete a BPP placement to be considered for a Pre-reg place

• Please try to be flexible in your choice of location, but realistic – you must be prepared to travel there over the two-week placement period

• When you receive the link for the online assessment you must complete it in order for your application to be fully submitted

• Search for Boots Pharmacy placement on Facebook and follow our page for any updates.

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What students told us after last years Boots Pharmacy Placement

95%* of students surveyed would recommend the placement to a friend

“Everyone was really friendly and welcomed me in store and I felt part of the team”

“The colleagues I worked with were very helpful and keen to help me fit in and learn.”

“Loved it! Made great relationships with the pharmacist and line manager and would love to be given this opportunity again.”

“My Boots pharmacy store has been very helpful, gracious and supportive. They ensured that I understood every aspects of the role of pharmacist and helped me to integrate in to the team well.”

“I have had a lot of fun learning more about pharmacy and what a community pharmacist does. The staff were very nice and willing to help with any questions and queries that I had.”

* 338 students were surveyed and all comments were provided confidentially through surveymonkey.co.uk