National Foundation Trainee Pharmacist Recruitment
Pharmacy Employers and Programme Information
What's happening now (August - November)
Preferencing window is now open.
Applicants
Preferencing is now open and will remain so until 31st October. Please access our Preferencing page above for more details.
Numeracy/SJY centre bookings open on 3rd August until 17th August and the selection centres held at Pearson Vue Test Centres are held between 26th September – 7th October. Information about these can be found on the Student Zone.
Employers
Applicants are now able to start preferencing the programmes they are interested in, if there are any issues with the programmes you are advertising and you need to withdraw a programme, eg; due to pharmacy shop closure, please contact your regional lead to inform them to remove this programme.
Trainee Pharmacist Recruitment Overview
Applicant Enquiries
FAQs can be found on the HEE Applicant Support Portal. If your question still hasn’t been answered, then all applicant enquiries, including locked Oriel accounts, must be logged through the HEE Support Portal website. Please access this website from the button below.
In collaboration with HEE (England), HEIW (Wales) and NES (Scotland), the RPS has published answers to commonly asked questions regarding the National Recruitment Scheme.
Recruitment Timeline
Activity
Month
Foundation Pharmacist training programme information available on Oriel
8th June 2022
Application window opens
8th June 2022 at 12pm
Application window closes
22nd June 2022 at 12pm
Numeracy/SJT centre booking window opens
3rd August 2022
Preferencing window opens
27th July 2022
Numeracy/SJT centre booking window closes
17th August 2022
SJT/Numeracy selection centre held (Pearson VUE Test Centres)
26th September - 7th October 2022
Preferencing window closes
31st October 2022
First round of offers released
Early November
Offers upgrade deadline
End of November
Programmes commence
July/August 2023
*Please note the date/items are subject to change/TBC
Complaints Policy
The recruitment and selection process to Trainee pharmacist training places aims to have methods that are fair, transparent and free from discrimination.
We publish our recruitment and selection methods within the applicant handbook.
The processes are designed and delivered by the Pharmacy National Recruitment Office (PNRO) working in partnership with local offices of Health Education England and the Welsh Workforce Education Development Service. However hard we try to respond to the wishes and aspirations of applicants accessing our recruitment services, we do recognise that, on occasion, our service may fall short of expectations. If you believe this has happened to you, you can use the complaints procedure below, which tells you how to make a complaint and how it will be handled.