# Clinical Pharmacist (Rotational) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-pharmacist-rotational/de21e92e-8ce7-47e5-87c4-4e87645f7339 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-pharmacist-rotational/de21e92e-8ce7-47e5-87c4-4e87645f7339.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Kent and Canterbury Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Pharmacist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39959.00 to £48117.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, Compressed hours, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-29T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-15T13:59:09.327Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8370962 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8370962?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.ekhuft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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 ‘Documents to download’. If you have further queries please don’t hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Qualification **Essential** - 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 **Essential** - To be aware of and adhere to the Trust’s Vision, Mission and Values **Desirable** - Member of RPS ### Clinical Skills and Experience **Essential** - Completion of preregistration year as per GPhC requirements. - Able to appraise options and make clear decisions - Basic understanding of Pharmacy Practice - IT skills in word processing, database and spread sheet packages **Desirable** - Completed preregistration training year in hospital - Basic understanding of hospital pharmacy practice - Knowledge of JAC system for ordering, stock maintenance, accessing drugsfromothersites within the Trust - Accessing patient details from Patient Centre ### Personal professional attributes **Essential** - Good communication skills, verbal, written and electronic. - Negotiation skills. - Good presentation skills - Good analytical skills – able to access and abstract data from relevant and sometimes complex sources. - Effective team player - Good interpersonal skills **Desirable** - Baseline management skills - Can prioritise work and organise own workload as well as that of junior pharmacy staff ## Documents - [elevate handbook (pdf, 712.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10698701) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 336.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10698700) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.