Job overview

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced and motivated pharmacist to develop specialist clinical skills by joining the pharmacy team supporting the tertiary cardiac centre at Morriston Hospital.

Morriston is a renowned centre of excellence for cardiovascular care in Wales, being 1 of 2 hospitals in Wales providing highly specialised cardiac. Our centre covers a wide region—from Pembrokeshire to Bridgend—and features one of the most efficient catheter labs in the UK.

This role offers the opportunity to rotate across the cardiac service, including exposure to highly specialised areas such as cardiac intensive care and coronary care within both cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery.

You will be fully integrated into a dynamic multidisciplinary team, supporting patients through expert medicines optimisation, clinical review, and discharge planning.

As a Specialist Cardiac Pharmacist, you will play a key role in delivering safe, effective, and patient-focused pharmacy care, while gaining valuable experience in a tertiary setting. This post is ideal for pharmacists ready to take the next step in their clinical career, with structured support and development opportunities. Be part of an innovative team at the forefront of cardiac care—and help shape the future of specialist pharmacy services.

Main duties of the job

• Work collaboratively with pharmacy colleagues, clinicians, nursing staff, and the wider multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality pharmaceutical care to cardiac patients.
• Provide a predominantly ward-based clinical pharmacy service, supporting patients from admission through to discharge with medicines reconciliation, optimisation, and discharge planning.
• Deliver and supervise a range of medicines management services, ensuring safe, timely, and effective use of medicines across all areas. 
• Identify opportunities to improve pharmaceutical services within the cardiac unit and contribute to the development and implementation of strategies that enhance efficiency, clinical quality, and patient satisfaction.
• Provide proactive, evidence-based medicines advice to prescribers to support safe, effective, and cost-efficient prescribing practices.
• Offer clinical leadership and mentorship to junior pharmacists, foundation trainees, and pharmacy students, supporting their development through supervision, teaching, and training.
• Participate in the pharmacy dispensary rota, contributing to the safe supply of medicines and supporting the wider pharmacy service as needed.

Working for our organisation

We believe staff are our best asset and we want you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board. 

As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.

You might be a nurse or doctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - we have a job for you.

There are also apprenticeships, work placements and volunteering roles available.

We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex; religion or belief; race; age; sexual orientation; gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled.

Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show that our commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.

If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery, with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.