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EOI's Open: Host a Short-Term Placement Pharmacy Undergraduate at your NCL practice

NCL Training Hub would like to offer an opportunity to declare a non-binding expression of interest in hosting a short-term placement for King’s College London (KCL) undergraduate pharmacy students, with a view to ensuring that we develop a future workforce who understand primary care and local priorities.

For any further information or queries please contact Amina Ali, NCL Pharmacy Ambassador: amina.ali@nhs.net.

The proposed format is as follows:

Student Group

Time Period

Remuneration to host site

MPharm 3rd year students

June/July 2024 - 4-week placement period

£121.88 per student

Students come in pairs for 10 days in total over two weeks.

MPharm 4th year students

January-March 2024 - 10-week placement period

£91 per student

Students come in pairs for 4 days in total – e.g. Monday and Tuesday over two weeks.

Pre-requisites and outline of placement:

The student will require a named clinical supervisor, this can be any healthcare professional. The clinical supervisor is not expected to always supervise the student but will be responsible for ensuring that the student receives adequate supervision.

The student can shadow or participate in activities involving or supervised by any healthcare professional.

The student will be tasked with completing a workbook which will be provided by KCL. Please contact Amina Ali if you wish to see an example of the workbook provided to MPharm 4th year students.

Benefits of placement for practices:

  • improve understanding of the benefits and challenges of working within general practice

  • demonstrate the value of pharmacists working in general practice

Please click on the button below to fill out the Expression of Interest form.

Please note that the closing date to express interest is 17th November 2023.  Please contact amina.ali@nhs.net if you have any questions.