Discover careers in pharmacy

Explore different roles including pharmacist, pharmacy technician and pharmacy assistant in hospital and community workplaces. 

Join Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust for this free careers event and hear directly from healthcare professionals about their real-life experiences, explore different career pathways and discover which role is right for you.

Reading University's School of Pharmacy will also be joining us.

While working in pharmacy could involve being based in the community, you’ll discover that this critical healthcare role is much wider than you might first think.

• You might be based in a GP surgery, health centre, clinic or nursing home supporting GPs and nurses. Or in a hospital, participating in ward rounds to take patient drug histories and speak to patient families.
• You might be preparing injectable chemotherapy medicines in a sterile, controlled environment or preparing intravenous feeds for babies born too early.
• You might be carefully managing the prescription of antibiotics, or a specialist supporting patients living with HIV to take anti-retroviral treatments safely and effectively.
• You might have gone to university or gone down an apprenticeship route straight from school.

Meet our team, learn about different options, get tips on applying and find out if pharmacy is the career for you!

Who should attend? This event is part of our BrigHTfutures@BHT programme aimed at secondary school students. It's ideal for anyone in Years 7-13 who is interested in healthcare, science, helping people or exploring future career options within the NHS. However, anyone interested in healthcare careers is welcome to attend.

AGENDA

4.45pm: Registration

5pm: Welcome to Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

• Samuel Bundu-Kamara, Chief Pharmacist, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

5.10pm: Pharmacy quiz

5.20pm: Pharmacist vs pharmacy technician – what’s the difference?

5.30pm: How to become a pharmacist

• Applying to university: Rachael Stannard, Reading School of Pharmacy, University of Reading
• Work experience and Foundation training: Alexa Conrad, Pharmacist and Pharmacy Educational Programme Director, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
• The pharmacy student experience: University of Reading students
• The trainee pharmacist experience

5.50pm: How to become and pharmacy technician or support worker

6.05pm: 'Pick up the pills' medicine sorting game

6.15 – 6.45pm: Speciality guest speakers

6.45: Antibiotics quiz answers

6.50pm: Careers question time – put your questions to our panel of speakers

7pm: Close

FURTHER DETAILS ABOUT THE EVENT

• PARTICIPANT AGE: This event is aimed at students in Year 7 and above at secondary school or college. Tickets are free. Each young person may be accompanied by one parent/carer. Over 16s are welcome to attend on their own with parent/carer consent.
• VENUE: The event will take place at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in the Sir Henry Floyd Lecture Theatre, located in the education centre behind the main hospital building. See Google Maps for an exact location: https://goo.gl/maps/5K5i9RyKhtSUq3c48 or ask for directions at the welcome desk in main reception.
• ARRIVAL TIME: Registration is from 4.45pm and we recommend arriving early to find a parking spot, or you can get dropped off right outside the Sir Henry Floyd Building.
• PARKING: There is visitor parking around the back of Stoke Mandeville Hospital, with usual charges applying. (Please do not park in staff car parking.) See our website for details: https://www.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk/visiting-your-hospitals/visiting/stoke-mandeville-hospital/