Resident Pharmacist

Main area Pharmacy Grade NHS AfC:
Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift pattern, 13 week averaged hours.) Job
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Site Cross Site Town Oxford Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 29/01/2026 23:59

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises four hospitals: the John Radcliffe Hospital
, Churchill Hospital
, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Do you want to kickstart your pharmacy career? Are you looking for a role to grow your clinical expertise every day? If so, this is a golden opportunity for registered pharmacist and current trainee pharmacists to apply to join an exceptional resident pharmacist team.

We have a reputation of excellence in our pharmacy team and the quality of the service we provide. We will support your wellbeing and development as a pharmacist and offer many opportunities for you to flourish in a dynamic and enthusiastic team. We encourage and inspire your learning and progression, with many resident pharmacists continuing their career within OUH.

Pharmacy provide a comprehensive range of pharmaceutical services and extended clinical roles to many clinical areas, including tertiary specialities.

We work closely with our clinical colleagues, including our eight consultant pharmacists, meaning you will have the best possible platform to develop your skills and knowledge and be a part of a Trust providing world‑class clinical care.

Our rotations are across four main sites and most of your time will be spent in clinical areas, engaging with patients and colleagues.

Additional benefits include paid study leave and course fees to undertake a Clinical Diploma, and the opportunity to complete your independent prescribing qualification as part of the Clinical Diploma (if not already obtained) as part of the strategic objective of the department to have all clinical pharmacists as prescribers by 2028.

The Pharmacy Residency programme offers:

• Experience across multiple specialities and hospital sites allowing you to develop a wide experience for your clinical pharmacy portfolio, with the opportunity to complete nine four‑month rotations in the following areas:
• General medicine
• Surgery
• Stroke
• Intensive Care
• Orthopaedics
• Neurology/neurosurgery
• Children's
• Renal and Transplant
• Infectious Diseases
• Gastroenterology and Hepatology
• Cancer and Palliative Care
• Medicines Information
• A postgraduate clinical diploma with Cardiff University
• Experience leading the dispensary during out‑of‑hours services
• Working as part of the Hospital at Night team, proactively reviewing patients requiring medicines optimisation
• Varied shift work to challenge and stretch you to become an expert at prioritisation and organisation

Join a team of friendly resident pharmacists who work collaboratively and are responsible for providing the Trust’s out‑of‑hours Pharmacy service. This is achieved by working varied shift patterns across weekends and weekdays, alongside a variety of clinical rotations. A fantastic amount of peer support is provided by working within such a close‑knit team of like‑minded individuals. There is an experienced team of senior‑on‑call pharmacists who provide support throughout the night for calls which need senior advice.

• To participate in the out of hours resident pharmacist rota, to all the Oxford University Hospitals. Service provision is also provided to other contracted organisations. The rota covers weekdays, weekends and bank holidays. This involves working late and night…