Shift Pharmacist

Shift Working Pharmacist – Zero Age

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Are you a newly qualified pharmacist, or a trainee pharmacist hoping to qualify in 2026 and looking for a challenge and a great start to your career? Are you ambitious, confident and enthusiastic?

Then join NUH as one of our shift working pharmacists! We have a well-established Band 6 pharmacist training programme which is proven to develop your skills and knowledge and provide an excellent springboard to any avenue of pharmacy going forward. This programme will involve you working within a large but friendly and motivated shift working pharmacist team whilst being supported by experienced senior staff.

The pharmacy department is forward-thinking and constantly implementing innovative ways of working to deliver the best possible care for patients. We continue to extend the ideal model of delivering medicines optimisation and pharmaceutical care where pharmacists are fully integrated into the medical teams, supported by a team of medicines management technicians and assistants.

Following a comprehensive induction, you will cover a wide range of medical and surgical specialties, medicines information and production. There will be potential for exposure to specialist areas which include respiratory, cardiology, paediatrics, renal, acute stroke, oncology, critical care and neurosciences. This will be done on a rotational basis allowing you to build up a wide experience base, excellent for building your career portfolio!

During these rotations you will have the support of our team of specialist pharmacists to mentor you, in addition to our dedicated education and training team to guide you through. You will also be supported to do an educational programme to further develop you as a newly qualified pharmacist according to your prior learning and experience.

As part of the shift-working team, you will be responsible for the provision of the Out-Of-Hours Pharmacy Services s involves working shifts in our "Trust Pharmacy" as part of a 100-hour contract along with shifts providing clinical pharmacy services to NUH inpatients at Queens Medical Centre and City Hospital.

The Out-Of-Hours services are all based within Trust Pharmacy working alongside a team of pharmacy support staff. You will have access to backup support and advice which will be provided remotely by senior pharmacists.

These posts offer you exceptional career building opportunities in one of the UK’s largest and busiest acute teaching hospital trusts.

Are you ready to join a dedicated, friendly pharmacy team that provides an excellent and caring service, working together to be the best for our patients? If so, we would be delighted to speak to you about these posts.

We are holding a couple of question and answer drop-in virtual sessions with our senior residents on Wednesday 7th January at 12:30-13:30 or 19:00-20:00 where you can ask them any questions about the role and their experiences.

Sign up here  to be sent an invite for the session.

• Session 1: 12:30-13:30 –
• Session 2: 19:00-20:00 –

Interviews will be face to face on 21st, 22nd, 23rd & 26th January.

In addition to the summary you will need to familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents attached to this advert.