Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Rotational

National Health Service; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts is seeking enthusiastic clinical pharmacists to join a large, friendly team delivering diverse pharmacy services as part of a senior rotational programme. You will provide complex pharmaceutical care, optimise medicines, and ensure safe transfer of care with mentoring support from specialist pharmacists and ward-based technicians.

After the first rotation you will rotate across areas such as cancer services, surgery/microbiology, and

Qualifications

• Essential: Registered with GPhC.
• Essential: Equivalent clinical experience to a diploma.
• Desirable: Post-graduate clinical diploma.
• Desirable: Non-medical prescribing.
• Essential: Ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams.
• Desirable: Experience in audit/research/project work at Trust level.
• Essential: Experience supervising/train­ing pre‑registration pharmacists/technicians.
• Desirable: Training/education experience for pharmacy staff and other health professionals.
• Essential: Hospital pharmacy service delivery experience.
• Desirable: Developing/implementing medicines/service policies for a specialty.
• Essential: Broad post‑registration hospital pharmacy planning/organisation; prioritising work.

Responsibilities

• Participate in clinical pharmacy duties with core activities across specialties; prescribing role if qualified.
• Provide leadership and directorate/service support.
• Line manage and support junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
• Contribute to 7-day rota and bank holiday duties.
• Support on-call rota; discuss flexible working if needed.

Education

GPhC registration or equivalent clinical qualification

Diploma equivalent

Non-medical prescribing (Desirable)

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Audit/research/project work (Trust level)

Supervision/training of pre-registration pharmacists/technicians

Clinical pharmacy service delivery in hospital

Policy development/implementation in medicines/services

Planning and organisational skills

Job description

Job summary

We are looking for enthusiastic clinical pharmacists to join our large and friendly team delivering the diverse pharmacy service within one of the country's largest teaching trusts. As part of the senior rotational programme you will get to provide complex, pharmaceutical care for patients, optimising their medicines and ensuring the safe & effective transfer of care. You will have mentoring support of specialist pharmacists, and operational ward based support from medicines management technicians. In addition you will build up your knowledge and skills to give you a wealth of experience for your CV. Don't know what area to specialise in but want a post that will give you the skills and opportunities to develop into a first class, well rounded pharmacist then this senior rotational post is for you!

Main duties of the job

This post is part of our rotational programme involving 12-month long rotations aimed at building your clinical knowledge and skills, as well as maximising your integration with the multi-disciplinary teams. The current rotational gaps are within the exciting rotations of Cancer services, City surgery/microbiology, and paediatrics/clinical trials.

Following the first rotation, you will rotate around a wide range of specialist areas, such as admissions, cardiology, renal medicine, thoracics & critical care, paediatrics, trials, antimicrobials & ePMA. You will also get the opportunity to line manage and mentor the junior pharmacists within the department and MPharm students from the University of Nottingham, building your portfolio further.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation. Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career! We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Details

Date posted 23 October 2026

Pay scheme Agenda for change Band Band 7 Salary 49,387 to 56,515 a year per annum Contract Permanent Working pattern Full-time Reference number 164-8307500

Job locations Cross campus Hucknall Road Nottingham NG5 1PB United Kingdom

Job description

• To partake in clinical pharmacy duties ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken in the relevant clinical specialties. This includes a prescribing role when qualified.
• Leadership, management and directorate/service support roles
• To line manage and support more junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in the medical team specialties
• To take full part in the 7 day shifted rota and bank holidays duties
• We operate a 7 day working model; the post-holder will contribute to the senior on‑call rota providing back‑up support to the on‑call pharmacist. All of our dispensaries are pharmacist‑free and technician‑led, so there aren't any operational commitments; ePMA is also being rolled out within the Trust. Whilst this post is commissioned to be full time (equivalent of 37.5 hours per week) the service would welcome applications from those wanting a better work life balance. If you would like to consider this post but on less than full time hours please still apply and outline this on your application form or please contact us for further discussion.

Person Specification

• Essential: Registered with GPhC
• Essential: Has equivalent clinical experience compared to diploma
• Desirable: Holds a post‑graduate clinical diploma
• Desirable: Non‑medical prescribing
• Essential: Ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams
• Desirable: Experience in undertaking, and reporting/presenting audit / research or project work at local (Trust) level.
• Essential: Experience of day to day supervision and assisting in training of pre registration pharmacists and/or technicians.
• Desirable: Experience of training and education of both pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals
• Essential: Experience of delivering clinical pharmacy services in a hospital setting
• Desirable: Experience of developing and implementing medicines and service related policies for a specialty
• Essential: Broad post‑registration experience in hospital pharmacy Planning and organisational: Able to prioritise own work

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).

Employer details

Employer name Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts Address Cross campus Hucknall Road Nottingham NG5 1PB United Kingdom Employer's website