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Job requirements
Essential
26 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
1. Good organisation skills/time management.
- Skills
2. Able to prioritise workload and target efforts appropriately
- Skills
3. Self-motivated and enthusiastic.
- Skills
4. Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Skills
5. Able to give oral presentations appropriate to the level of the audience including students
- Skills
6. Able to produce written reports.
- Skills
7. Good consultation skills.
- Skills
8. Proven ability to influence and negotiate with all grades of staff.
- Skills
9. Able to work well in a team
- Skills
10. Ability to listen and act on direction from senior pharmacists
- Knowledge
1. Good clinical knowledge of drugs and therapeutic trends within general medicine and surgery.
- Knowledge
2. Knowledge of NICE and NPSA guidance and subsequent examples of local implementation
- Knowledge
3. Knowledge of Health care systems and NHS changes.
- Knowledge
4. Computer literate with experience of Word, Powerpoint and Excel
- Knowledge
5. Familiar with the use of a range of visual aids for teaching.
- Knowledge
6. Pharmacy computer systems training.
- Experience
1. Moderate post-registration hospital experience including prescription screening, medicines reconciliation, medicines information, experience of preparative services either TPN/chemotherapy.
- Experience
2. Experienced clinical pharmacist who has covered a range of specialities. Medicine including elderly care, acute medicine and other specialist medicine and Surgery including general surgery and other surgical specialities
- Experience
3. Documentation in medical notes.
- Experience
4. Writing or assisting in writing drug policies and guidelines/PGD development.
- Experience
5. Evidence of having conducted a clinical audit
- Qualifications
1. Masters level degree in pharmacy.
- Qualifications
2. Post-graduate preregistration year.
- Qualifications
3. Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Qualifications
4. Completed Certificate (Year 1) of Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/General Pharmacy Practice and studying for completion of year 2*.
- Additional Requirements
The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
Desirable
14 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
1. Ability to remain calm and work effectively under pressure and to deadlines.
- Skills
2. Able to produce written support materials for training.
- Skills
3. Proven ability to teach and train a range of staff groups.
- Experience
1. Recent post-registration hospital experience, ideally including previous experience in a teaching hospital and experience of more than one hospital.
- Experience
2. Experienced clinical pharmacist (at band 7)
- Experience
3. Evidence of having written pharmaceutical and/or educational publications.
- Experience
4. Experience as a personal tutor to a range of staff groups.
- Experience
5. Drug expenditure analysis and reporting.
- Experience
6. Horizon scanning.
- Qualifications
1. Completed year 1 and year 2 of Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/General Pharmacy Practice)*.
- Qualifications
2. MSc in Clinical Pharmacy (or equivalent)*.
- Qualifications
3. Qualified and registered as an Independent prescriber.
- Qualifications
4. Risk management training
- Qualifications
5. Professional and final accuracy checking
Job overview
We are looking for enthusiastic Pharmacists to join our team of Clinical Rotational Pharmacists. Our excellent programme offers a diverse range of development opportunities for Pharmacists with an interest in honing their clinical knowledge, as well as taking strives into leadership and management opportunities.
Our team of Clinical Rotational Pharmacists participate in 12 month rotations working across all 5 divisions within the trust giving the post holder the opportunity to experience an unrivalled breadth of clinical pharmacy practice and professional development.
Main duties of the job
To provide an advanced clinical pharmacy service to ward(s) within specialist area.
To deliver designated performance objectives specific to the allocated rotation area(s).
Our Clinical Rotational Pharmacists participate in extended clinical rotations in a vast range of specialties across the hospital.
Our rotations include:
- Surgery
- Gastroenterology
- Trauma & Orthopaedics
- Vascular surgery
- Pre-admission clinics
- Critical Care
- Oncology and Haematology x2
- Medicines Information
- Medicine:
- Emergency and Acute Medicine
- General Medicine
- Respiratory
- Renal
- Hepatology
- Elderly care
- Infectious diseases
- Solid Organ Transplant
- Neurosciences:
- Neurology and Stroke
- Neurosurgery
- Cardiology, Diabetes and Endocrinology
- Paediatrics
- Women’s Health
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full-time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full-time permanent contract unless you have: - applied for a Graduate visa - or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
This vacancy will close at midnight on 18th October 2026.
Interviews are due to be held week commencing 26th October 2026.
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
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 Rotational Pharmacist with Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Cambridge, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 p.a. pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 18 Oct 2026.
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