Job overview

THIS POST IS FIXED TERM FOR UPTO 24 MONTHS DUE TO FUNDING

Would you like to be part of an innovative and motivated team whilst developing  your career portfolio? Do you share our health board values and passion for improving the care of patients in Wales?

We have a number of exciting opportunities for enthusiastic, passionate and committed pharmacists to support our pharmacy services across CTMUHB.

In these stimulating roles you will work closely with, and be supported by,  highly skilled and experienced pharmacy teams. Roles will follow a rotational programme across the CTMUHB footprint to build your clinical knowledge and experience different specialities. Successful candidates will be based at one site to contribute to on call rotas.

All posts come with formal development opportunities which may include the HEIW Post registration Foundation qualification or a distance learning diploma. Preferences can be discussed at interview.

We welcome applications from newly qualified pharmacists registering in Aug 2025 or experienced pharmacists ready for a new challenge.

Pharmacy in CTMUHB has a strong culture of learning and development with a focus on support and wellbeing. We work collaboratively across all sectors of pharmacy as ONE team.  All sites have established medicines management services and electronic discharge systems. Digital solutions for prescribing and managing medicines are due to be implemented. 

Main duties of the job

Pharmacists led clinics are well established and pharmacy staff are valued members of clinical multidisciplinary teams

• The post holder will provide a safe and effective clinical pharmacy and ward-based medicines management service to clinical area(s) and advise medical staff and nurses on pharmacy matters.
• Rotations are health board wide and could include, medicine, admissions, surgery, trauma & orthopaedics, frailty, palliative care, primary care and prison services.
• The post holder must comply with current legislation and UHB policies. The recommendations contained within the Code of Ethics as issued by the General Pharmaceutical Council and the obligations in the Standards of Good Professional Practice will be upheld at all times.
• The post holder will be expected to undertake post-graduation development as identified by service and post holder needs

   

We want to build your network, so we expect all these posts to start together on the 1^st August 2025. If you have prior commitments, please discuss this at interview.

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.

Working for our organisation

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family.  Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.