Clinical Pharmacist | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 11 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £54,710 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 April 2026 |
| Location: | Sutton-In-Ashfield, NG17 4JL |
| Company: | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7680790/214-CSTO-7680790 |
Summary
Would you like the opportunity of gaining experience as a clinical pharmacist in a supportive learning environment and optimise medicines for patients? You will join us as an early careers pharmacist (band 6) progressing through our training programme to a rotational senior pharmacist (band 7). The complete programme will take between 3 to 4 years depending upon start date in the department, course logistics and your progress.
This post provides the opportunity to develop your clinical skills and knowledge aligning to the successful completion of foundation training period and demonstration of appropriate competence in line with national frameworks.
A satisfactory review of your portfolio at 18 months will result in progression to the SFHT “Rotational Band 7 post” at 21 months.
You will be joining a team of Early Career Pharmacists who operate an out of hours service with extended hours and overnight service from home.
This is a full time post providing an out of hours Pharmacy service via shift working on a rota basis. You will undertake 3 month rotations during normal working hours across a variety of clinical areas. These rotations offer the opportunity to learn about different clinical specialities within a supervised and supportive environment.
This post is open to qualified pharmacists and trainee pharmacists due to join the GPhC register on 1st August 2026.
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
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Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Wednesday 25 Mar 2026
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