Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (To cover another member of staff on F/T contract until 08/2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 193-6788769NCG
- Employer
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Berkshire Hospital
- Town
- Reading
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist - F/T
Band 7
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’. This is a great opportunity to join our clinical or non-clinical teams to create a positive and motivating environment within our trust. Come and join our team in this exciting time of change as we pride ourselves, our staff and our services on excellence.
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.”
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
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
Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist
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 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 and mentoring skills with an opportunity to line manage pharmacists.
Each post has an extended rotation of 1 year with management and project opportunities. including Gastro / Renal, ICU, Admissions, Pediatrics, Surgery, 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.
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.
For more details, please refer to the full Job Description and Personal Specification attached.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Current registered Member of GPhC
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Member of UKCPA
- Diploma in clinical pharmacy or General Pharmacy Practice.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Hospital Pharmacy Experience**
- Extensive multi-disciplinary Teamwork**
- Extensive patient contact
Desirable criteria
- Audit experience
- Experience of Pharmacy computer technology
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Bilyana Doncheva
- Job title
- Senior Lead Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07817388334
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