Rotational Pharmacist Band 6&7 Step Up programme | The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in the United Kingdom is seeking an enthusiastic pharmacist to join their diverse and supportive pharmacy team. You will rotate through various wards, providing professional pharmaceutical services and supervising trainees. The role emphasizes career development and a commitment to training. Ideal candidates have a pharmacy degree and relevant hospital or community experience. This is an excellent opportunity for growth in clinical pharmacy.

Benefits

Excellent support and training

Diverse working environment

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Registered pharmacist with hospital or relevant community experience required.
• Completion of prescribed clinical training programs for medication handling.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional pharmaceutical services across multiple wards.
• Supervise trainee pharmacists and support staff.
• Integrate into the multidisciplinary team and attend ward rounds.
• Provide medication advice to patients and healthcare staff.

Skills

Professional pharmaceutical services

Team supervision

Clinical pharmacy knowledge

Medicines management

Education

Pharmacy degree

Postgraduate clinical training

Job description

Overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic pharmacist to join our friendly department at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.

You will receive excellent support and training from our senior pharmacists, laying a solid foundation for your future career. We believe in investing in our junior pharmacists and are passionate about developing our pharmacists into the clinical leaders and consultant pharmacists of the future. We have a principal pharmacist dedicated to education and training to ensure our staff receive outstanding training and development.

You will have the opportunity to rotate through the following wards and departments, depending on your pay band:

• Band 6: Paediatrics, Acute Medicine, Total Parenteral Nutrition (pharmacy aseptics), General Surgery, Cardiac Services, Respiratory Medicine, Stroke, Elderly care, Medicines Information.
• Band 7: Trauma and Orthopaedics, Diabetes, General Medicine, Critical Care, Gastroenterology, Rheumatology/Surgery, Renal, Cytotoxics & Oncology (pharmacy aseptics).

Candidates with suitable hospital experience would be recruited at band 7. Applications welcome from community pharmacists, newly qualified pharmacists and pharmacists already working in a hospital setting.

If you want to join a supportive and forward thinking pharmacy department then submit your application, as we would love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional pharmaceutical services, including reviewing prescriptions, dispensing, aseptic preparation, and clinical pharmacy services in all areas of the department on a rotational basis.
• Supervise/provide professional support to trainee pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, students and support staff.
• Managed, where appropriate by the Senior Pharmacist in each area of activity.
• Undertakes postgraduate clinical training such as the diploma in clinical pharmacy and/or independent prescribing.
• Provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to wards and departments providing a medicines management service directly to patients with support and training from experienced staff.
• Provide advice to medical and nursing staff on drug usage, and encourage compliance with the hospital/health economy formulary to ensure safe, rational, and economic prescribing.
• Provide professional pharmacist cover in all areas including inpatient and outpatient dispensaries, aseptic dispensing services, medicines information, and clinical pharmacy services according to a specified rota.
• Provide a professional lead to pharmacy technical and support staff managing medicines in designated ward areas.
• Integrate into the multidisciplinary team and attend ward rounds making proactive interventions in individual patient’s therapy by providing information on drug related issues and acting as a Pharmacy contact.
• Provide advice to patients on the correct use of medication and ensure that directions associated with medications are understood, including the main side-effects of the medications.
• Identify drug related admissions and where appropriate follow through with a yellow card report to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
• Resolve medicines related problems associated with individual patients between primary and secondary care.
• Support senior pharmacists contributing/providing pharmaceutical advice to the multidisciplinary audit of treatment guidelines.
• Support senior pharmacists providing pharmaceutical advice at directorate level.
• Maintain an up to date knowledge of developments in medical and pharmaceutical practice as part of continuing professional development.

The full job description and person specification are included with this advert.

This advert closes on Sunday 14 Sep 2025

About the Trust

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services. We are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements and will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.