Job requirements
Essential
12 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Qualification
Four years Masters Degree In Pharmacy from a UK School of Pharmacy or equivalent as recognised by GPhC), and one Registered Pharmacist with the GPhC
- Other Requirements
To be aware of and adhere to the Trust’s Vision, Mission and Values
- Clinical Skills and Experience
Completion of preregistration year as per GPhC requirements.
- Clinical Skills and Experience
Able to appraise options and make clear decisions
- Clinical Skills and Experience
Basic understanding of Pharmacy Practice
- Clinical Skills and Experience
IT skills in word processing, database and spread sheet packages
- Personal professional attributes
Good communication skills, verbal, written and electronic.
- Personal professional attributes
Negotiation skills.
- Personal professional attributes
Good presentation skills
- Personal professional attributes
Good analytical skills – able to access and abstract data from relevant and sometimes complex sources.
- Personal professional attributes
Effective team player
- Personal professional attributes
Good interpersonal skills
Desirable
7 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Other Requirements
Member of RPS
- Clinical Skills and Experience
Completed preregistration training year in hospital
- Clinical Skills and Experience
Basic understanding of hospital pharmacy practice
- Clinical Skills and Experience
Knowledge of JAC system for ordering, stock maintenance, accessing drugsfromothersites within the Trust
- Clinical Skills and Experience
Accessing patient details from Patient Centre
- Personal professional attributes
Baseline management skills
- Personal professional attributes
Can prioritise work and organise own workload as well as that of junior pharmacy staff
Job overview
We are looking for a pharmacist to join our growing clinical pharmacy team who wants to develop their knowledge and skills in a variety of clinical specialities.
In this post, you will be expected to perform medicine reconciliations, screen drug charts and work alongside multi-disciplinary teams in ensuring that patients get the best care. You will be responsible for facilitating discharges safely and ensuring safe medicine provision on your ward. There will be opportunity to help manage students and trainee pharmacists develop.
Each rotation has set clinical objectives that are agreed with your line manager that will be reviewed at each rotation to ensure that progress is being made. Rotations include but is not exhaustive; acute, general and specialist medicine, general surgery, paediatrics/medicines info and medication safety/governance.
Applicants must be registered with the GPhC, have good written and oral communication skills, the ability to apply evidence/guidelines to practice and be aware of their own limitations and can refer to others for advice when necessary. Time management and prioritisation are also important skills for this role.
Main duties of the job
Further to this, all foundational pharmacists are provided with a rotational role across our 3 largest hospital sites to experience these specialities in different working environments.
Alongside the extensive training received in-house, with monthly clinical education sessions in a variety of clinical topics we encourage all of our foundation pharmacists to sign up to the NHS England Newly Qualified Pharmacists programme. This training will be heavily supported by a network of educational supervisors, practice supervisors and experienced pharmacists and technicians that will all be available to support you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in 'supporting documents'.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Clinical Pharmacist (Rotational) with East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust in Canterbury, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £39959.00 to £48117.00. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (12/12 FTC for external recruitment (no suitable internal candidates for secondment)). The application deadline is 29 Oct 2026.
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