The closing date is 04 August 2026.

Job summary
Welcome to Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) Stanford Hall. We are an inclusive, dedicated organisation working to provide outstanding care to our entitled personnel.

Are you a Band 8a Pharmacist looking for an exciting role, working alongside the military, which offers numerous benefits and opportunities? If the answer is yes, then we are looking to appoint a professional and patient focused individual with a strong commitment to providing a high quality service to work within our friendly and welcoming team at Stanford Hall.

This is a full time position of 37.5 hours per week.

Benefits

• An inclusive working environment
• Access to an NHS Pension
• Free parking
• Access to gym, swimming pool and hot tub
• On site shop
• On site golf course, running track, tennis courts and cinema
• Officers mess membership

Main duties of the job
Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) is a highly specialised rehabilitation unit which deals with complex trauma and neurology cases. The Pharmacist will have responsibility for leading and developing pharmacy services at DMRC.

This will include the provision of dispensing, ward and clinical services to in-patients, domiciliary and out-patients and managing the associated risks. It will also involve the provision of expert advice on pharmaceutical matters to specialist consultants, medical and nursing staff, the management and mentoring of pharmacy personnel and training of healthcare personnel both civilian and military at DMRC in medicine management matters as appropriate.

About us
Our success depends on our people, our Whole Force, regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.

Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.

In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.

If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.

Job responsibilities
Main duties of the role include, but are not limited to:

• Provide the professional lead for all areas of Medicine Management at DMRC reporting to Consultant Medicines Management.
• Develop and manage general and ward pharmacy services to ensure the safe, accurate and timely dispensing of medicines in accordance with Defence medical polices and practice. Actively lead on clinical governance issues and associated risk management to monitor and improve quality of all service delivery. Responsible for reviewing, actioning, and ensuring the timely dissemination (cascade) and completion, of all pharmacy-related medical alerts received via the Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) Central Alerting System (CAS), ensuring appropriate implementation and compliance across relevant services.
• Manage and provide professional supervision to the Pharmacy Technician and supporting staff both in the dispensary and on the wards; this will include the development of appropriate professional training opportunities for both pharmacy and non-pharmacy personnel.
• Provide subject matter expert (SME) advice on formulation of Medicines Management Policy and take the lead on development and implementation of DMRC medicines-related policy with support from the Military Clinical Director (MCD) and the Medicines Management Committee. They will be fully engaged in the planning and implementation of changes in practices relating to medicines management. Promote evidence-based practice through the use of latest research based guidelines.
• Lead on governance and assurance for medicines management across DMRC in collaboration with Defence Primary Health Care (DPHC) to ensure that all medicines are managed in accordance with National legislation and Defence policies. This must be supported with evidence from clinical audits and quality improvement programmes.

Selection Process
The sift will be completed within 10 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

At application stage you will be assessed against the following:

CV:

• Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form.
• Please provide information of how you meet the criteria set out in the Job Description. You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlined in the job advert.

To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see the supporting information link for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

At interview you will be assessed against the following:

Civil Service behaviours:

• Changing and Improving
• Working Together

NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework:

• NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
• NHS Core NHSC3 Health, Safety & Security
• NHS Information & Knowledge NHS IK2 Information Collection & Analysis
• NHS General NHS G6 People Management

The interview may consist of a mix of direct questions and clinical situation-based scenarios.

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.

Further Information
Please see the link to our YouTube channel for advice preparing your best responses with some hints and tips on answering behaviour-based questions. Hints and tips such as: Your behaviours can be based on situations from work, volunteering or home; match your situation to the behaviour requested and how to use your 250-word limit. Apply through our website.

All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.

If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Please note that evidence of your vaccination is not a proof of your immunity, but your serology levels will be required. Failure to provide sufficient evidence may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.

The post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non-Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative. Apply through our website.

Person Specification
Provide a CV - Essential

• Please copy and paste your full CV as your response to this question; you will not be able to upload your CV as an attachment.
• Please ensure to refer to the essential criteria where applicable as your application may be rejected should insufficient information to shortlist be included.
• Please use double spacing where possible.

Behaviour Statement - Essential

• Have you been dismissed for gross misconduct relating to bullying, harassment, discrimination or victimisation from any role in the past five years, or resigned or otherwise left a role but would have been dismissed for such gross misconduct because of an adverse decision, had you continued in that employment?
• Please respond with Yes or No as appropriate.

Qualifications - Essential

• Pharmacy Degree.

Qualifications - Desirable

• Post Graduate Diploma / Master of Science (MSc) in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent.
• Independent prescriber.

Registration Details - Essential

• Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Please provide your membership registration number.
• You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting your application.
• Your application will not progress should you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see Apply through our website.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

There may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all DCS candidates that meet the minimum criteria for the job. For example, in certain recruitment situations such as a high volume of applications, seasonal demand, or peak periods, the employer may wish to limit the overall number of interviews offered to both DCS and non-DCS applicants.

If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact DBSCivPers-SGDMSResourcing@mod.gov.uk.

The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

For details on our complaints procedure, please see attached Important Information document.