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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacist
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Back up on-call, late shifts and weekends pro-rata)
Job ref
193-7780273NCG
Employer
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Berkshire Hospital
Town
Reading
Salary
£47,810 - £54,710 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/03/2026 23:59

Employer heading

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

NHS AfC: Band 7

At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”

Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements.  The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’.  

We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions

We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate

We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live

We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice

At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, we value candidates who bring their unique personalities, skills, and experiences to the Trust. When completing your application, we encourage you to highlight your individual achievements and strengths, showing us how they align with the requirements outlined in the job description and person specification. While we recognise that some applicants may use AI tools during the process, please be mindful that AI-generated responses can often lack the personal detail and relevance needed to demonstrate your suitability for the role. AI generated content is discouraged by the Trust and may diminish the candidates chances of success.

Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us.  We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.  

Job overview

Band 7 Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

The Royal Berkshire Pharmacy department is passionate about developing an excellent clinical pharmacy service and is looking for enthusiastic, innovative and self-motivated pharmacists to join our team.

Working in the Royal Berkshire Pharmacy department, you will be given the opportunity to rotate across various specialties, spending enough time to engage with the multidisciplinary clinical team and make a difference.

Main duties of the job

As a band 7 rotational clinical pharmacist, you will be part of the pharmacy clinical ward team to help deliver a high quality specialist service to our patients and the MDT. We will support in developing your leadership, management and mentoring skills with an opportunity to lead on projects and support others. 

Each post has an extended rotation of 1 year with management and project opportunities- including Gastroenterology & Renal medicine , ICU,  Acute Admissions, Cardio-pulmonary medicine, Children's and Women's Services , Surgery &Trauma , Care of Elderly,  Education and Training.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest District General Hospitals in the country. The hospital achieved Foundation Trust status on 1st June 2006. It was the first Foundation Trust in the South Central Strategic Health Authority.

The Trust has a successful track record of delivering high quality acute medical and surgical services for 500,000 patients across West Berkshire, an area extending from Newbury in the west to Henley-on-Thames in the east, and including Wokingham and parts of Hampshire to the south and parts of Oxfordshire to the north. The Trust is Reading’s biggest employer.

Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful places to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.

Our "CARE" values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Pharmacist is responsible for professional aspects of the day-to-day pharmaceutical service provided by the Trust.

To work closely with other members of the pharmacy team to provide a clinical pharmacy service to wards and to assist in developing pharmaceutical services. 

Deputise for the Clinical Lead in their absence.

For more details, please refer to the full Job Description and Personal Specification attached.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Current registered Member of GPhC
  • Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
  • Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy (or to finish within next 3 months)
Desirable criteria
  • Member of UKCPA
  • Member of RPS
  • Independent Prescriber
  • Formal leadership Training

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Extensive Hospital Pharmacy Experience
  • Extensive multi-disciplinary Teamwork
  • Extensive patient contact
  • Ability to prioritize
  • Quality Improvement projects/Service development
  • Teaching and training others
  • Developing guidelines
Desirable criteria
  • Audit experience
  • Experience of Pharmacy computer technology
  • Risk assessment s and Incident investigation
  • Presentations skills
  • Evidence of cost-improvement projects

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Florence Nightingale FoundationNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark 2024

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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early due to the application cap imposed.
Candidates to be capped at 30 applications for each whole time equivalent position being recruited to.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Bilyana Doncheva
Job title
Associate Chief Pharmacist- Clinical Services
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01183228299
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