Medical Protection Advertisement

Location
Salary
£47,810 - £54,710 pro rata pa
Profession
Pharmacist
Grade
Band 7
Deadline
21 Dec 2025
Contract Type
Fixed term: 12 months (12 months minimum - to cover leave)
Posted Date
08 Dec 2025

Job overview

This exciting role will allow you to develop your skills as a specialist rotational pharmacists, within a friendly supportive team at Queens Hospital Burton, you will have the opportunity to rotate through other clinical areas at Queens hospital.

Your knowledge will enable you to support the trainee and band 6 pharmacists and there will be the opportunity to become a mentor and potentially a trainee pharmacist tutor if you are interested.

If you are not already an Independent prescriber, we will support you to complete the course.

Main duties of the job

To provide support and cover as a specialist rotational pharmacist.

To support the ward clinical service at Queens Hospital to ensure safe delivery of medicines across the whole hospital. In addition to this you will have two fixed days at Samuel Johnson Hospital

In addition to this, you may be asked to support the service at Samuel Johnson Hospital (SJH) in Lichfield and Sir Robert Peel hospital (SRP) in Tamworth as rota required.

To support the training of trainee and junior pharmacists through mentorship.   There may be the opportunity, if interested to become a pre-registration tutor.

To support the weekend and on call service for Queens, SJH and SRP.  All pharmacists are expected to be part of this rota.

There may be an opportunity for some cross site working at Derby hospital, Additionally, some training will take place at Derby to ensure a wide range of patients are seen.

Closing date of applications: 21 December 2025

Interview date: 7 January 2026

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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