Role Description

You could work in different areas, including:

Community pharmacy

• dispensing medicines in a high street or supermarket pharmacy
• giving healthcare advice about prescription and over-the-counter medicines
• advising on drug dosages and risks 
• running screening programmes for diabetes, cholesterol or blood pressure 
• visiting care homes to advise on the use and storage of medications
• ordering and controlling stock
• running a business, including supervising and training staff

Hospital pharmacy:

• working with doctors and nurses and other healthcare staff
• producing medicines when ready-made ones aren’t available, for example, cancer treatments
• buying, quality testing and distributing medicines throughout the hospital
• visiting wards and patients to talk about medicines and dosages
• dispensing medicines for patients being discharged from hospital
• supervising trainees and junior pharmacists

Local NHS service:

• giving advice to GPs and nurses on how to choose and prescribe medicines
• running GP practice clinics
• Education or industry:
• doing research into new medicines
• running clinical trials

In all of the above roles, you'll observe high standards of security and confidentiality.