Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
18 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience in pharmacy practice obtained through one year’s pre-registration training and examination.
- Qualifications
Masters Degree in pharmacy obtained through four year undergraduate training.
- Qualifications
Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council achieved by 12 months pre-registration training/experience and examination
- Personal Attributes
Exhibits an enthusiasm for development of the practice of Pharmacy
- Personal Attributes
Able to work as an individual and within a team. Possesses personal organisational attributes.
- Personal Attributes
Responds positively to service deadlines
- Personal Attributes
Able to plan and manage own workload.
- Personal Attributes
Possesses good verbal and written communication skills.
- Personal Attributes
The post holder must display an understanding of and ability to deal with the confidential and sensitive information with which they will come into contact on a daily basis.
- Personal Attributes
The post holder will need the necessary skills to be able to communicate complicated medication issues to patients and carers in order that they may understand and make best use of their medicines.
- Personal Attributes
The post holder must display an understanding and ability to communicate and deal with all patients and/or carers some of whom may have language, sensory or learning difficulties, or who may be dying or distressed because of their diagnosis or state of health.
- Physical Attributes
Must be physically able to visit wards and departments within the hospital and to visit other Trust sites as required by the activities of the job.
- Special Knowledge/Skills
Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Special Knowledge/Skills
The post holder must be equally at ease talking to patients, medical and nursing staff of all grades in both primary and secondary care and will need to present written and verbal reports to senior hospital staff.
- Special Knowledge/Skills
The post holder must have basic keyboard skills and familiarity with routine office software – word processing, spread sheeting and PowerPoint
- Special Knowledge/Skills
Interprets information and provides advice
- Special Knowledge/Skills
Awareness of own limitations and when to refer to others for advice
- Special Knowledge/Skills
Dispensing and accuracy checking skills
Desirable
6 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and experience in UK hospital pharmacy
- Qualifications
Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
- Qualifications
Membership of the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacists Association.
- Qualifications
Membership of the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists
- Qualifications
Non-medical prescribing or working towards a prescribing qualification
- Physical Attributes
Clean driving licence and own transport an advantage
Job summary
The Pharmacy team at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals are a friendly, innovative, and successful team. The Foundation Pharmacist programme will support you in your initial journey in hospital pharmacy. The programme includes clinical rotations through various specialties at each of our hospital sites including medicine for older people, general surgery, paediatrics, cardiology, endocrinology, maternity and acute admissions. You will also gain experience working in our dispensaries, technical services and medicines information departments.
Training and support will be led by our Advanced Clinical Pharmacist for Education & Training with additional support provided by our senior and specialist pharmacists and our team of experienced technicians and support workers, which will enable the successful candidate to gain a thorough knowledge base and experience of clinical pharmacy. You will be supported through a structured induction process as well as provided with a wide range of training and development opportunities to build your foundation portfolio, including support to complete a Post Graduate Diploma in clinical pharmacy and the opportunity to undertake a non-medical prescribing qualification.
The successful candidate will contribute to our emergency out of hours service, late night and weekend service on a rotational basis.
Main duties of the job
- Carry out duties in the dispensary to help ensure that medicines are provided in a timely fashion for in-patients. These duties will include:
- Act as the Responsible Pharmacist in line with local procedure.
- Clinical and accuracy checking of prescriptions.
- Dispensing medicines.
- Dealing with medicines for clinical trial patients.
- Supervising technicians and trainee pharmacists.
- Educating patients and/or their representatives about their medicines.
- Liaising with various members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Managing and prioritising own workload to tight deadlines and ensuring urgent work is done.
- Carry out duties in the Technical Services section, which will include:
- Clinical and accuracy checking of prescriptions.
- Dispensing and supervision of others in dispensing (by manipulation and reconstitution) injectable medicines (and ensuring safe and appropriate disposal of sharps and other waste).
- Preparation and dispensing of special formulations for external or internal use.
- Liaising with medical and nursing staff with a view to providing advice about intravenous nutrition (TPN) prescriptions.
- Handling and dispensing medicines used in the treatment of cancer (cytotoxic medicines).
- Carry out duties in Medicines Information in order to provide help and advice to medical and nursing colleagues and where appropriate patients about the use of medicines.
About us
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work. We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs.
Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more. If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Details
- Date posted: 08 September 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 6
- Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
- Contract: Fixed term
- Duration: 3 years
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 001551
- Job locations: Trustwide UK, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 4DG, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
- Masters Degree in pharmacy obtained through four year undergraduate training.
- Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council achieved by 12 months pre-registration training/experience and examination.
- Experience in pharmacy practice obtained through one year’s pre-registration training and examination.
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This advert is for Foundation Pharmacist with Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust in Wakefield, 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. The application deadline is 21 Sep 2026.
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