Registration onto the National Foundation Trainee Pharmacist Recruitment Scheme via Oriel

In order to recruit via Oriel, employers must register each year via the online form below. You will need to provide programme specific information and agree to meet the terms of participation.

If you are an existing employer, your employer details will be available by selecting the correct Health Education England region followed by location (sector), Employer Type and speciality or size of organisation from the available selections in the online form below. Once you have submitted your form, you will receive an email from noreply@holograph.digital with a copy of your submission, please check your junk mail folder if you can’t see this email.

We strongly recommend that you download a copy of last years information, which was advertised in Oriel, from the Pharmacy Employers and Programme Information 2021 spreadsheet which is available on the righthand side. The spreadsheet has filters added providing quick access to your programme information from last year. If you have multiple programmes to submit (one form completion per programme) it is advisable to keep a track of which ones you have submitted and ensure you do not submit a programme which you do not plan to recruit to or duplicate entries.

Please also read the employer guide, which provides detailed information about the National Recruitment Scheme and more information about registration and providing your programme information, in addition we have also prepared a short video for a step-by-step guide to how to complete the online form.

Please note that if you are an employer in Wales, you should not be completing the online form. Please contact Laura.Doyle3@wales.nhs.uk if you have any queries.

Employer Handbook

Pharmacy Employers and Programme Information

Online form completion tutorial video

The deadline for employers to register to recruit via Oriel and submit programme information for the 2023-24 cohort is 11:59pm on Tuesday 1st March 2022

Employer Programme Information

Based on number of branches

Choose from the list of drop downs available or choose Other and enter Employer Name in the field below.

If your employer name is not listed please enter it here. Note: you should use Branch/Pharmacy name or TA company name here. If you are using your Branch Name for Employer name, please also include your post code in this field (eg Blakeberry Pharmacy E6 3RL)

Please enter your company/employer name

Choose from the list of drop downs available or choose Other and enter Website Address in the field below

If your website is not listed please enter it here or N/A if you do not have a website or a link to NHS Choices

Please enter your website address

Please inform us of your programme information below. This information is what prospective applicants will see within the Oriel system. Please ensure your programme description accurately reflects what programme the trainee pharmacist will receive and to use the new GPhC IETP terminolgy.

Please select from the available options on the drop down below. If you are a new employer or an existing employer with a new or revised programme, select Other and complete the fields below:

Employer Name or Branch/Town/Postcode field will display as Programme Title within Oriel and will provide applicants with easily accessible information so please ensure it accurately reflects a name they will recognise. If your programme remains the same as last year, it will be available on the drop down above and should be selected.

Cluster Approach – HEE does not recommend this as an option, please refer to the employer guide for detailed information on this option before choosing it. If you decide on a cluster approach, your pharmacy branches should be within close proximity, i.e. within around 1 mile apart and will need to be the branch name not the trading as company name, please use the beginning part of the post code here only, eg SE20.

Please add the following details:

Employer name or branch

eg. Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust or Abbeydale Pharmacy

Town

eg. Frimley

Post Code

eg. GU16 7UJ

Please provide a clear description of your programme so applicants can make an informed decision when choosing which organisations to preference. You should also include here details of all placements; branch/hospital/GP/CCG/PCN and post codes. There is an additional question below which relates to placements; if you are offering a multi-sector programme where placements are 3 months or more in duration, select Yes in the multi-sector section of the form below and complete the additional fields required.

(950 Characters including spaces ONLY) Please do not use any formatting or bullets.

Please enter your programme description

This should be an indicative number of the trainees you will be employing, confirmation on final numbers of trainees will be required in May.

By selecting more than 1 trainee place, you are committed to advertising these trainee places within your employment, ensure you have the necessary resources in place before selecting more than 1 place/trainees.

Applicants will need to know if you are offering a Skilled Worker Visa Sponsorship, all hospital/CCG employers should offer sponsorship, please choose Yes from the drop down below. As a Primary Care Employer, if you are not offering sponsorship for all the places you are recruiting to, you will need to submit two separate programmes, one with sponsorship and one without. More information about visa sponsorship can be found on the Home Office Website here: https://www.gov.uk/uk-visa-sponsorship-employers
The minimum salary payable for anyone requiring sponsorship is set by the Government each year, for the 2021 recruitment round, the minimum was set at £22,000, if you have selected Yes, you will need to enter £22,000 or higher in the salary field.

Hours per week	Minimum Salary Required
35	£16,708
36	£17,185
37	£17,622
37.5	£17,901
38	£18,140
39	£18,617
40	£19,094
41	£19,572
42	£20,049
43	£20,526
44	£21,004
45	£21,481

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Note: The salaries and hours listed are based on the Governments current minimum wage limits. Employers must pay the minimum wage as set by the Government in July/Aug 2023

Warning: The minimum salary limit from last year is set at £22,000 as an indicative amount, if you choose to offer visa sponsorship you must pay the minimum salary as set by the home office.

Salary

Choose from the list of drop downs available or choose Other and enter Training Provider in the field below

Please enter your training provider

The next section of the form is for the placement information. The majority of posts are 1 placement for 12 months however if you are planning to offer a multi-sector programme and the trainee will have placements in other sectors of 3 months or longer in duration please select Yes and provide the details below.

If you are offering any placements which are less than 3 months, select No and list these in your programme description above.

Please complete all fields below regarding the detail of placements. NOTE: details regarding the branch/hospital/GP/CCG and post codes will not be visible to applicants within Oriel however for the purposes of accuracy of information HEE requires this level of detail. If you are offering a multi-sector place, please ensure you include branch/hospital/GP/CCG/PCN and post codes in the programme description above so it will be available to prospective students. If you are still waiting on details of placements, please state the sector and add TBC in the other fields if this is not yet available.

First placement

Name

Postcode

Second placement

Name

Postcode

Third placement

Name

Postcode

Forth placement

Name

Postcode

Contact Details

Please confirm your contact details below - these contact details are not made available to applicants. They will be used by Health Education England to keep in touch throughout the recruitment cycle and for an account to be set up on Oriel in order to access successful applicant details in December 2022.

First Name

Last Name

Email Address

Please enter your telephone number, this should include the full country & area code, if you have an extension please provide this in the input provided.

Telephone Number

Extension

Mobile Number

Head Office/Trust Street Address

Head Office/Trust Town

Head Office/Trust County

Head Office/Trust Postcode

Terms of Participation

In order to participate in the National Foundation Trainee Pharmacist Recruitment Scheme, we ask that all employers abide by our Terms of Participation. These are clearly detailed on our website.
To confirm your participation and agreement to abide by these terms, please complete the following:

You agree that:

You have read, understood and will abide by the full Terms of Participation (see link above).

For posts advertised via the Scheme, you will not recruit a Trainee Pharmacist for those same posts outside of the Scheme unless you have been informed by the Recruitment Team in December that the posts have not been filled.

You will honour the advertised salary and contracted hours as displayed in your Oriel programme information.

You will pay at least the minimum salary for entry to the Scheme, which is £16,708 for a 35-hour week, adjusted for actual hours worked.

If you are an employer advertising as a skilled worker visa sponsorship, you will pay at least the salary, and the hours of work, stipulated by the Government at the time of employment.

The advertised salary will not be subject to further deductions upon payment to the trainee (such as, for example, charging the trainee for external training provision payments).

You will provide interview panel members when requested for the Multiple Mini Interviews held at selection centres each September.

You will not withdraw programmes from the Scheme once advertised in June.

You will accept the candidate recruited via the Scheme, subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks.

Failure to abide by these terms will result in the removal of your programmes from the scheme.