OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE

Provides specialist recruitment solutions which deliver effective workforce planning aligned to Pharmacist recruitment. Proactively leading and delivering attraction and resourcing tactics/strategies which meet the recruitment and selection needs of Well Pharmacy ensuring positive candidate and hiring manager journeys from talent scoping to onboarding which reflect our employer brand.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Aligned to the strategic workforce plan, lead on further development of effective workforce planning for the Pharmacist recruitment programme through collaboration with key stakeholders, understanding market insights so that the right people are recruited at the right time with the right skills, knowledge, behaviours and values.
• Lead recruitment to meet hiring SLA’s
• Partner with your business area as the SME in Resourcing & Talent practices, providing updates on performance against operational and recruitment metrics, market trends and insights.
• Support, guide and upskill key stakeholders and hiring managers to engage with and deliver the recruitment objectives & selection processes in a consistent manner ensuring positive employer brand representation throughout the candidate and recruitment journey.
• Utilising internal and external market insights to influence recruitment decisions, reward propositions, providing regular analysis on market trends to inform the overall operations team.
• Build and maintain both active and passive candidate talent pools whilst aligning talent programmes to enable proactive people solutions to be identified.
• Align attraction and selection processes to reflect the Well Pharmacy employer brand proposition to ensure we are positioned in the market as an employer of choice.
• Utilising both online (social channels, careers website, job board/employer platforms) and offline/internal channels to ensure we portray a consistent and compelling brand message beyond the traditional job advert.
• Deploy a variety of attraction methods to attract candidates with the right talent, skills, behaviours and values to Well Pharmacy including: internal mobility, internal networks, Locums, social media, recruitment marketing, advertising, direct sourcing (headhunting, networking etc), local and national partnerships and events.
• Work with the Resourcing Team as well as the wider People function to review, develop, maximise efficiencies and improve processes delivered through technology solutions (ATS) and offline ways of working.
• Maintain an overview of all recruitment undertaken at Well Pharmacy, produce reports and statistics as required focussed on recruitment and retention as well as make recommendations for change.
• Ensure a smooth end-to-end recruitment experience for candidates including onboarding through our ATS system and DBS applications.
• Ensure all recruitment & selection and development processes are followed and adhere to legal, policy and compliance requirements.
• Ensures all Home Office requirements are met, documented, and followed, identifying any risks are escalated.
  The Ideal Candidate
  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.
  Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.
  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.