Healthier Together is the name given to our Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) Integrated Care System. Together, we will work to improve health and wellbeing, reduce inequalities, and provide integrated services for the one million people living in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

Across BNSSG, we have pharmacy professionals working in a range of pharmacy practice settings including, at our two hospitals, mental health trust, a prison, over 250 community pharmacies, 20 primary care networks, a community health provider, care homes, an NHS ambulance service hub and private independent healthcare companies providing NHS care. In BNSSG we really have at it all!

This mixture of health services has enabled us to offer a rich and diverse range of foundation trainee pharmacist training places, including many innovative multisector placements. This means you can find the area(s) of pharmacy practice you would like to move into for your important foundation training placement to give you the best start to your career.

Why live in BNSSG?

Bristol is an amazingly diverse and inclusive city, with a vibrant and young feel, partly due to the two large Universities within the city. The city hosts many music venues, has several galleries and festivals that drive its creative reputation. From hot air ballooning, ‘Love Saves the Day’ music festival, to food and graffiti (taking inspiration from Bristol born artist Banksy), you will find something that you will like and enjoy in Bristol.

If you’re looking for more countryside than city life, we also have many picturesque villages and small towns in South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. This includes Weston-Super-Mare, a beautiful sea-side town with stunning beaches, great biking and walking routes and some fabulous cafes and restaurants.

More information on placements in BNSSG coming soon.

Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire System covers a large and varied geographical area (1,511 miles squared) that includes the densely populated and growing town of Swindon to the north, the historic city of Bath, Salisbury plains to the south and the rolling Mendip Hills to the west. BSW is a fantastic place to live. It is a short train journey to both Bristol, Cardiff, and London with train links to Dorset and Cornwall Coast. In BSW we work as a system creating new and exciting placement opportunities for our trainees.

In BSW we are striving to make the experience of all our trainees as equal as possible with standardised salary and HR across the system, regardless of sector. Every BSW Trainee will have half a day per week study time. You will join our BSW Trainee Pharmacists network including system wide training with regular GPhC style calculations and clinical questions, as well as regular learning at lunch sessions led by members of the team. We have a thriving social media network, find us on @BSWPharmTrainees on Instagram.

Please see our website for more information and contact details: https://bswtogether.org.uk/training-education/pharmacy-trainees/

More information on placements in BSW coming soon.

Do you want an unforgettable adventure in the far South West of England, with glorious beaches, quaint fishing villages, rugged moorlands, and idyllic rivers? What better place to spend your training year? Cornwall and the Isle of Scilly is well connected with the train line running from Truro to major cities (Bristol, Manchester and London) and Newquay airport for further away adventures.

Joining the Cornwall and Isle of Scilly system will expose you to all areas of pharmacy including community, hospital, general practice, mental health and technical services. As the training sites are spread out across our vast geography, and our public transport can sometimes be found on ‘Cornish time’, to get the most out of your training year you will find having access to a car will save you time commuting between our various sites, it will also give you great access to some of the rugged and remote areas of Cornwall.

We have some great food, fish fresh from the sea, bakeries selling fresh pasties and cream teas as well as international cuisine with a Cornish twist. There is entertainment for everyone’s taste including the Eden Summer music sessions, films on the beach, Boardmasters, local festivals and sports a plenty.

Cornwall is a beautiful place to live and work, with a supportive, close-knit pharmacy team sharing excellence for the safety of patients.

Meet some of the team here:  Meet the team

More information on placements in Cornwall coming soon.

Devon is a county that has a lot to offer, with more than 100 trainee pharmacist places across all sectors, many offering cross-sector opportunities.

In addition to the in-depth clinical training available within the range of healthcare organisations, a ‘Teach and Treat Hub’ supports trainees to help develop clinical and prescribing skills. Trainees will also be supported to develop under the supervision of experienced pharmacists in areas such as leadership and quality improvement. Inclusion is a key part of what we do, and we welcome people from all backgrounds to join our clinical community.

Community pharmacies, primary care and NHS trusts across Devon hope that Trainees will stay following registration to embark on well-developed career paths, including post-graduate qualifications. In addition, Devon has some of the best education and research institutions in the country, including the newly formed School of Pharmacy in Plymouth.

Devon is a beautiful, varied county with Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, two National Parks (Dartmoor and Exmoor) and a stunning coastline all of which provides many outdoor leisure opportunities. There are also vibrant cities and towns steeped in character, culture and opportunity.

We will do all we can to make your time here enjoyable and create a foundation on which you can build your future. Whatever your background, whatever your personal or professional interest, there is something for everybody in Devon.

For more information, visit our pharmacy careers website: www.onedevon.org.uk/pharmacy-careers

More information on placements in Devon coming soon.

With over 100 miles of coastline, both modern and historic towns, and beautiful countryside, Dorset is a great place to live and work.

Dorset has strong links between healthcare settings which offers trainees the chance to experience a variety of clinical environments during their training year. This will allow the opportunity to discover an area that the trainee is passionate about or even facilitate the development of a portfolio career consisting of a variety of roles.

From 2025, several partnerships have been set up to allow a split training year between two main placement sites, with opportunities to undertake small placements in other sectors over the course of the year. These cross-sector placements will involve time spent in Primary Care Networks/GP practices, community pharmacy, the Integrated Care Board, acute hospitals, mental health hospitals and prisons (subject to student preference and availability). There are also single sector positions available where trainees will spend most of their time at one site to develop their skills in a particular sector.

In addition to developing clinical and prescribing skills, trainees will be given the chance to develop in other areas under the supervision of highly experienced pharmacists. These areas include quality improvement, risk management, leadership, education, and training. The ‘Our Dorset’ Pharmacy network takes a collaborative approach to education and training providing support during the trainee year and beyond as your career progresses.

We hope that you consider applying for a position within Dorset to kickstart your pharmacy career.

More information on placements in Dorset coming soon.

Gloucestershire is a wonderfully unique place to live and work in, with a perfect mix of exciting inner-city energy, and beautiful rural countryside. Hailed as being the heart of the Cotswolds, it is home to the famous Cheltenham Races and Gloucester Rugby – there is something for everyone! Gloucestershire is also very well connected, being only an hour from Bristol and Birmingham, and two hours from London and Cardiff.

One Gloucestershire is our Integrated Care System, where we work in partnership with our communities to improve health and access to deliver the best possible care. Gloucestershire Hospitals Trust, spread over two sites in Cheltenham and Gloucester, provides a full clinical service to wards and well as inpatient and outpatient dispensing, medicines information, procurement services and aseptics.

Our NHS Community Pharmacies are a dynamic, exciting, and increasingly clinical part of primary care, with a particular focus on keeping our populations as healthy as possible. We also have over 60 GP practices from inner-city to rural villages, truly offering something for everyone.

We have a variety of tri-sector, dual-sector and single sector placements offering you the chance to work within our hospitals, GP practices, and our community pharmacies. All offer prescribing elements and collaborative working, delivering rich and invigorating learning opportunities. In return for your hard work, we will support you to develop towards becoming a pharmacist providing you with opportunities to apply your skills throughout your training and, hopefully, your future career with us.

Want to know more? See here!

More information on placements in Gloucestershire coming soon.

Working in Somerset

‘Our Somerset’ brings together all organisations responsible for delivering health in our community. We want all people of all ages who live and work in Somerset to live healthy and fulfilling lives. We want people to live well for longer, and for Somerset to be a fantastic place to raise families, enjoy employment, and support one another to be the best they can be.

Across Somerset we offer a variety of placements in a range of settings. Somerset NHS Foundation Trust runs services from two acute hospitals – Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, Yeovil Hospital in Yeovil; It also runs services from 13 community hospitals in the county, a range of mental health and learning disability services and Symphony Healthcare Services runs a quarter of GP practices in the county. We have 95 Community Pharmacies, working at the forefront of the NHS pharmacy services for the community we serve.

Our unique position of having one Trust supporting all acute services and multiple GP practices means that we can offer a diverse range of trainee pharmacists’ placements across the county. You will have the opportunity to find a placement that suits your sector of learning and your future career progression.

Living in Somerset

Somerset is a beautiful county that combines beautiful stretches of sandy coastline, caves, moors, the unique Somerset Levels, areas of outstanding natural beauty, cool-list towns, internationally renowned art galleries and great food. The county is alive with music, literature and art, not least the incredible Glastonbury Festival.

Somerset has great transport links. London and the Midlands are less than 2 hours away by train; The vibrant cities of Bath and Bristol are under 30mins away by train and the city of Exeter is 30mins away by car.

More information on placements in Somerset coming soon.