# Clinical Pharmacist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Sutton In Ashfield
- **Region:** Midlands
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Pharmacist
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £56,515 per annum
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 2 years (in total 4 years, initially 2 years on band 6 and another 2 years on band 7)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-30T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-16T14:13:10.866Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Nottinghamshire/SuttonInAshfield/Sherwood_Forest_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8085219
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8085219?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Would you like the opportunity of gaining experience as a clinical pharmacist in a supportive learning environment and optimise medicines for patients? You will join us as an early careers pharmacist (band 6)  progressing through our training programme to a  rotational senior pharmacist (band 7). The complete programme will take between 3 to 4 years depending upon start date in the department, course logistics and your progress.

This post provides the opportunity to develop your clinical skills and knowledge aligning to the successful completion of foundation training period and demonstration of appropriate competence in line with national frameworks.

A satisfactory review  of your portfolio at 18 months will result in progression to the SFHT “Rotational Band 7 post” at 21 months.

You will be joining a team of Early Career Pharmacists who operate an out of hours service with extended hours and overnight service from home.

This is a full time post providing an out of hours Pharmacy service via shift working on a rota basis. You will undertake 3 month rotations during normal working hours across a variety of clinical areas.  These rotations offer the opportunity to learn about different clinical specialities within a supervised and supportive environment.

This post is open to qualified pharmacists and trainee pharmacists due to join the GPhC register.

### Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

## Person Specification

### Other

**Essential**

- Flexibility in working hours.
- Car driver / willingness to live on-site
- Able to work extended hours.

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Clinical Pharmacy knowledge associated with a 4 year Pharmacy degree course.
- Knowledge gained through 1 year pre-registration training.
- Knowledge gained through vocational practice.
- Clinical knowledge from aspects of career to date.
- Evidence-based practice.

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- BSc, BPharm or MPharm in Pharmacy
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

**Desirable**

- Post-graduate studies.
- Independent prescribing
- Diploma or MSc in clinical pharmacy gained through post-graduate study or equivalent experience including the CPPE Primary care pharmacy education pathway

### Further Training

**Desirable**

- Formalised quality improvement training
- Other relevant pharmacy / healthcare related training courses

### Experience / skills

**Essential**

- Strong pharmaceutical care focus.
- Ability to work in a team
- Good communication skills
- Good problem solving skills
- Prioritisation skills/good time management
- Audit and/or quality improvement experience.

**Desirable**

- Appropriate experience of hospital pharmacy
- Project work
- Practice research
- Demonstrate commitment to CPD

## Documents

- [benefits leaflet (pdf, 834.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2702)
- [application guide (pdf, 584.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2448)
- [our staff networks (pdf, 810.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2938)
- [band 7 rotational pharmacist jd (pdf, 776.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10377945)
- [nursing, midwifery & ahp strategy 25-28 (pdf, 2.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2492)
- [band 6 early career and on-call pharmacist jd (pdf, 968.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10377944)

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