I am writing in connection with your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000, which was received by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) on 4 March 2025.

Request

You asked us:

May I request details about job vacancies, commencing from published dates 01 April 2017 to 28 02 2025 arranged in columns as shown

Column 1 Vacancy ID

Column 2 Vacancy Reference number

Column 3 Organisation name

Column 4 Org id

Column 5 Job Title

Column 6 Staff Group

Column 7 Area of Work

Column 8 Salary

Column 9 Pay Band/Scale

Column 10 Published date

Column 11 Advert closed date

Column 12 Job Type

Column 13 Fixed term contract length

Column 14 Post code

Column 15 Region

Specifically, we would seek information for the following job titles which include words pharmacist, pharmacy technician, pharmacy support staff, pharmacy assistant, pre-registration pharmacist, pre-registration pharmacy technician, foundation pharmacist or a combination or variation of any of the above words within the job title.

Our response

I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds the information you have requested and a copy of the information.

Search terms

The data has been filtered on the following criteria:

Job title: contains ‘Pharmacy’ or ‘Pharmacist’

Date Range: 08/01/2020 – 28/02/2025

Unfortunately, we are only able to provide data from 08/01/2020 as that is as far back as our records go.

The information provided is limited to what the recruiting organisation supplies us with. For more detail on each position, you may wish to write to each trust directly. A directory of trusts and ICBs (including the ones provided in the data) can be found at the below web link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-provider-directory/

Publishing this response

Please note that this information will be published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02634

Your personal details will be removed from the published response.

Data Queries

Please contact foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data.

Reusing the data and copyright

If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data please contact communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement: “NHS Jobs, NHSBSA Copyright 2025” Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence.

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated. Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information.