Foundation Trainee Pharmacist National Recruitment Scheme

Trainees undertaking their foundation training in the 2025 - 2026 training year should commence their training on a suitable date, agreed with their employer, within the Summer window: 14 July 2025 to 4 August 2025.

In exceptional circumstances only, trainees may commence their training in the Autumn window: 20 October 2025 to 10 November 2025.

Further information on the 2025 - 2026 training year, including the Terms of Participation and employer programme information can be found by clicking on the 'Employer information and FAQs' page above.

Employer registration for the 2027-2028 foundation training year will launch in early January 2026.

Preferencing has now closed for students and the offers process begins on 5 November and runs until 26 November 12:00pm

The first cascade of offers will be made on 5 November 2025, the final offer upgrade deadline is 26 November 2025 12:00pm - UK local time. You will be notified of offers via an email which will ask you to login to your Oriel account.

Important: during the offers window we strongly recommend that you monitor your Oriel and email accounts especially closely to ensure you do not miss notifications of offers.

IMPORTANT: You will be given 48 hours (excluding weekends and bank holidays) to accept or decline an offer.
If you decline an offer you will be removed from the process
If you let an offer expire you will be removed from the process
Once removed from the process you will not be eligible to receive any subsequent offers

The recruitment and selection process to foundation trainee pharmacist training places aims to have methods that are fair, transparent and free from discrimination.

We publish our recruitment and selection methods within the applicant handbook.

The processes are designed and delivered by the Pharmacy National Recruitment Office (PNRO) working in partnership with local offices of NHS England and Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW). However hard we try to respond to the wishes and aspirations of applicants accessing our recruitment services, we do recognise that, on occasion, our service may fall short of expectations. If you believe this has happened to you, you can use the complaints procedure below, which tells you how to make a complaint and how it will be handled.