Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Rotational

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

We are looking for enthusiastic clinical pharmacists to join our large and friendly team delivering the diverse pharmacy service within one of the country's largest teaching trusts.

As part of the senior rotational programme you will provide complex pharmaceutical care for patients, optimising their medicines and ensuring the safe & effective transfer of care. You will have mentoring support from specialist pharmacists and operational ward-based support from medicines management technicians.

In addition, you will build up your knowledge and skills to gain a wealth of experience for your CV.

If you are unsure about which area to specialise in but want a post that will provide you with the skills and opportunities to develop into a first-class, well-rounded pharmacist, then this senior rotational post is for you!

Main duties of the job

This post is part of our rotational programme involving 12-month rotations aimed at building your clinical knowledge and skills, as well as maximising your integration with the multi-disciplinary teams. The current rotational gaps are within the city surgery, cancer specialists, and thoracics/critical care rotations. You would work within one of the above rotations until September 2026.

From September 2026, you will rotate around a wide range of specialist areas, such as admissions, oncology, paediatrics, trials, antimicrobials & ePMA.

You will also have the opportunity to line manage and mentor the junior pharmacists within the department and MPharm students from the University of Nottingham, further building your portfolio.

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

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education, and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world-class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job responsibilities

• Partake in clinical pharmacy duties ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken in the relevant clinical specialties, including a prescribing role when qualified.
• Leadership, management, and directorate/service support roles.
• Line manage and support junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in the medical team specialties.
• Participate in the 7-day shifted rota and bank holiday duties.
• Contribute to the senior on-call rota providing backup support to the on-call pharmacist.

While this post is commissioned to be full-time (equivalent to 37.5 hours per week), the service welcomes applications from those wanting a better work-life balance. If you would like to consider this post but on less than full-time hours, please still apply and outline this on your application form or contact us for further discussion.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered with GPhC.
• Equivalent clinical experience compared to diploma.
• Holds a post-graduate clinical diploma.
• Non-medical prescribing.

Skills & Experience

• Ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience in undertaking and reporting/presenting audit/research or project work at local (Trust) level.
• Experience of day-to-day supervision and assisting in the training of pre-registration pharmacists and/or technicians.
• Experience of training and educating both pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals.
• Experience of delivering clinical pharmacy services in a hospital setting.
• Experience of developing and implementing medicines and service-related policies for a specialty.

Planning and Organisational Skills

• Able to prioritise own work.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.