Job summary

Are you looking to launch your career as a hospital pharmacist?

Come and join the large pharmacy team at Cardiff & Vale UHB for an exciting chance to develop your skills and experience as a post-registration foundation pharmacist. If successful, you will have the opportunity to complete a structured training programme to support your development within the hospital environment and progress your career with us. We have an excellent history of developing pharmacists to advance to more senior roles both within Cardiff & Vale and further afield. We recognise that our profession's future leadership will come from pharmacists like you, with drive and ability. Join our highly motivated team and share in our values, caring for people, keeping them well.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

This post is fixed term for 36 months to meet the needs of the service.

Main duties of the job

As a post-registration foundation pharmacist you will work in a variety of clinical areas, using your skills within the ward based multi-disciplinary team to ensure optimal and safe medicines are prescribed for your patients.

You will gain experience in a variety of ward specialities, dispensary services, technical services and medicines information.

You will undertake a structured training programme, with support from experienced practitioners, to build confidence and competence to provide pharmaceutical care to complex and specialist areas.Your structured training programme will be supplemented by local learning opportunities to address your own identified learning needs. Your development aim for the post will be to start your Royal Pharmaceutical Society credentialing journey as well as gaining your independent prescribing qualification to enable you to progress into advanced roles after this post.

The pharmacy team provides a 7-day service. This role will include ward and dispensary support over weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis.

About us

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 15,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services.

Our mission is "Caring for People, Keeping People Well", and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. As an organisation we are unashamedly ambitious for our population's health, rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow through our 10-year strategy, Shaping our Future Wellbeing. We are contributing to a healthier Wales with great emphasis placed on innovation and improvement, learning from around the world and leading the way in clinical research. Partnership working is strong at Cardiff and Vale, and we work closely with our staff and our community.

Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions. Situated to the west of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a combination of beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiff and the Vale offers the best of both worlds.