Primary Care Careers – Pilot For Community Pharmacy
Recruitment support offer not to be missed
The Primary Care Careers team are an ICB-level recruitment service that is currently funded and supported across 5 eastern region ICBs (HWE, MSE, BLMK, N&W and SNEE), providing a dedicated recruitment support function for general practice teams. The service aims to provide recruitment support for a career in primary care, currently supporting GP practices to attract and recruit to their workforce.
With the particularly acute workforce crisis affecting community pharmacy in the East, the SNEE ICB & N&W ICBs have agreed to support a pilot for 10 community pharmacy locations with vacancies in each footprint, with 10 SNEE and 10 N&W locations being offered support.
If you have a vacancy for any job role across the team that you would like help to recruit for, we would strongly suggest you utilise this tailored and personalised service that takes much of the leg work away from your busy team and lets the team at Primary Care Careers do the advertising across Indeed, NHS Jobs, their dedicated website and social media. They will then help you by managing applications and provide you with a shortlist of potential applicants for you to contact to arrange interviews.
NHS Jobs have shared that Primary Care Careers are now the biggest national recruiter of the primary care workforce. We would kindly remind pharmacy teams that all pharmacies are eligible to advertise directly on the NHS Jobs website and a template to register was sent to all NHS premises email accounts on Wednesday, 21st June 2023, please email info@suffolklpc.org.uk or info@norfolkpharmacies.co.uk if you require a copy.
If you do have a vacancy and wish to engage with this unique recruitment support opportunity please complete the Expression of Interest (EoI) form HERE.
Please be aware that as part of the Primary Care Careers service you will be asked several questions and need to be engaged in the process for them to support you in developing and attracting high calibre applicants.
The pilot will run within the SNEE ICB & N&W ICB footprint from now until the end of March 2024.
As part of the evaluation process the 20 pharmacy sites that do engage with the pilot will be required to fill in a brief survey to help assess the value of this pilot and inform future community pharmacy recruitment support.
If you have any questions please contact Kristina Boulton, Communications Officer on Mob: 07398 248601 or email: kristina@suffolklpc.org.uk.
