Clinical Rotational Pharmacist

Cambridge University Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Cambourne; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site leisure facilities

Bus travel discounts

Park and Ride free

Staff parking subsidy

Job summary

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking enthusiastic Pharmacists to join our Clinical Rotational Pharmacists team. The 12-month rotations across five divisions offer breadth of clinical pharmacy practice and leadership development.

Rotations include Surgery, Gastroenterology, Trauma & Orthopaedics, Oncology, Critical Care, and many more. This is a dynamic role with a strong focus on medicines optimisation and patient care within CUH.

Qualifications

• Masters level degree in pharmacy.
• Post-graduate preregistration year.
• Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Completed Certificate (Year 1) of Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/GP Practice and studying Year 2.

Responsibilities

• Provide an advanced clinical pharmacy service to ward(s) within a specialist area.
• Deliver designated performance objectives for the rotation area.
• Participate in extended clinical rotations across hospital specialties.

Skills

Good organisation

Time management

Self-motivated

Written and verbal communication

Team collaboration

Influence and negotiation

Education

Masters in Pharmacy

Pre-registration year

GPhC registration

Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy (Year 1) progress

Tools

Pharmacy computer systems

Job description

Job summary

We are looking for enthusiastic Pharmacists to join our team of Clinical Rotational Pharmacists. Our excellent programme offers a diverse range of development opportunities for Pharmacists with an interest in honing their clinical knowledge, as well as taking strives into leadership and management opportunities.

Our team of Clinical Rotational Pharmacists participate in 12 month rotations working across all 5 divisions within the trust giving the post holder the opportunity to experience an unrivalled breadth of clinical pharmacy practice and professional development.

Main duties of the job

To provide an advanced clinical pharmacy service to ward(s) within specialist area.

To deliver designated performance objectives specific to the allocated rotation area(s).

Our Clinical Rotational Pharmacists participate in extended clinical rotations in a vast range of specialties across the hospital.

Our rotations include:

• Surgery
• Gastroenterology
• Trauma & Orthopaedics
• Vascular surgery
• Pre-admission clinics
• Critical Care
• Oncology and Haematology x2
• Medicines Information
• Medicine: Emergency and Acute Medicine
• General Medicine
• Respiratory
• Renal
• Hepatology
• Elderly care
• Infectious diseases
• Solid Organ Transplant
• Neurosciences: Neurology and Stroke
• Neurosurgery
• Cardiology, Diabetes and Endocrinology
• Paediatrics
• Women's Health

About us

Our Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people - patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing 'outstanding' care to our patients and rated 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH's values - Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent - are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people's age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full-time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full-time permanent contract unless you have:- applied for a Graduate visa- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 18th October 2026.

Interviews are due to be held week commencing 26th October 2026.

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters level degree in pharmacy.
• Post-graduate preregistration year.
• Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Completed Certificate (Year 1) of Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/General Pharmacy Practice and studying for completion of year 2*.

Desirable

• Completed year 1 and year 2 of Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/General Pharmacy Practice)*.
• MSc in Clinical Pharmacy (or equivalent)*.
• Qualified and registered as an Independent prescriber.
• Risk management training
• Professional and final accuracy checking

Experience

Essential

• Moderate post-registration hospital experience including prescription screening, medicines reconciliation, medicines information, experience of preparative services either TPN/chemotherapy.
• Experienced clinical pharmacist who has covered a range of specialities. Medicine including elderly care, acute medicine and other specialist medicine and Surgery including general surgery and other surgical specialities
• Documentation in medical notes.
• Writing or assisting in writing drug policies and guidelines/PGD development.
• Evidence of having conducted a clinical audit

Desirable

• Recent post-registration hospital experience, ideally including previous experience in a teaching hospital and experience of more than one hospital.
• Experienced clinical pharmacist (at band 7)
• Evidence of having written pharmaceutical and/or educational publications.
• Experience as a personal tutor to a range of staff groups.
• Drug expenditure analysis and reporting.
• Horizon scanning.

Knowledge

Essential

• Good clinical knowledge of drugs and therapeutic trends within general medicine and surgery.
• Knowledge of NICE and NPSA guidance and subsequent examples of local implementation
• Knowledge of Health care systems and NHS changes.
• Computer literate with experience of Word, Powerpoint and Excel
• Familiar with the use of a range of visual aids for teaching.
• Pharmacy computer systems training.

Skills

Essential

• Good organisation skills/time management.
• Able to prioritise workload and target efforts appropriately
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to give oral presentations appropriate to the level of the audience including students
• Able to produce written reports.
• Good consultation skills.
• Proven ability to influence and negotiate with all grades of staff.
• Able to work well in a team
• Ability to listen and act on direction from senior pharmacists

Desirable

• Ability to remain calm and work effectively under pressure and to deadlines.
• Able to produce written support materials for training.
• Proven ability to teach and train a range of staff groups.

Additional Requirements

Essential

• The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).