We are looking for a dynamic, innovative, self-motivated individual to join our clinical pharmacy team…
…", "personSpecification": [ { "category": "QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING", "essential": ["MPharm or equivalent Degree in Pharmacy approved by General Pharmaceutical Council.", "Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council", "…"], "desirable": ["Working on RPS or HEE advanced framework portfolio", "Management / Leadership training"] }, { "category": "KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE", "essential": ["Able to demonstrate significant relevant experience of clinical pharmacy practice", "…"], "desirable": ["Significant relevant and recent experience of Paediatrics"] } ], "personSpecificationText": "QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING\nMPharm or equivalent Degree in Pharmacy approved by General Pharmaceutical Council.\nRegistered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council…", "dbsCheck": "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.", "ukRegistration": "Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see\nNHS Careers website (opens in a new window).", "aboutEmployer": "Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) is a dynamic and successful organisation with a strong organisational and personal development focus…", "employerAccreditations": ["Age Positive", "Apprenticeships", "Armed Forces Covenant", "CQC Good", "Disability Confident Employer", "Veteran Aware", "…"], "contact": { "name": "Lisa Hodgson", "jobTitle": "Head of Clinical Pharmacy Services", "email": "lisa.hodgson@cht.nhs.uk", "phone": "01484355769" }, "employerWebsite": "https://www.cht.nhs.uk", "supportingDocuments": ["JD and PS.pdf (PDF, 504 KB)"], "applyUrl": "https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9372-26-0508/ats-direct-apply", "searchKeywords": "pharmacy technician", "searchLocation": "Manchester", "scrapedAt": "2026-10-07T17:11:16.316Z" } ``` `description` is the whole advert: the job overview, the main duties and the detailed responsibilities, each under its own heading. The first two are also returned separately as `summary` and `duties`, and `descriptionHtml` is the same content as HTML. | Column | Meaning | |---|---| | `id`, `reference` | The NHS Jobs advert id (it is in the URL) and the employer's own vacancy reference, where the advert gives one | | `band`, `payScheme` | The pay band ("Band 5", "Consultant") and the scheme it belongs to ("Agenda for change", "Hospital medical and dental staff", "Other") | | `salaryMin`, `salaryMax`, `salaryPeriod` | The salary as numbers, with `year`, `hour`, `day` or `session`. A single-figure salary has the same minimum and maximum. NHS Jobs ranks and filters hourly and sessional pay on a yearly equivalent of its own | | `contractType`, `contractDuration` | "Permanent", "Fixed term", "Bank" and so on, and how long a fixed-term post lasts | | `workingPattern` | Every pattern the advert offers, comma-separated, e.g. "Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working" | | `personSpecification` | A list of `{category, essential[], desirable[]}`; `personSpecificationText` is the same content as plain text | | `dbsCheck`, `ukRegistration` | The criminal-record check sentence and the professional registration requirement, as the advert states them | | `employerAccreditations` | The schemes the employer is accredited under, e.g. "Disability Confident Employer", "Veteran Aware" | | `supportingDocuments` | The names of the documents attached to the advert, such as the job description (downloaded from the advert itself) | | `searchKeywords`, `searchLocation` | The keyword and location of the search that found the advert | | `source`, `sourceName` | Always `nhs` and "NHS Jobs" | | `detailError` | Present only when an advert could not be read; the row then carries the search-result fields alone | ### How many NHS jobs can you get, and how fast? Whole runs on Apify with full adverts on, 7 October 2026: | Run | Jobs returned | Time | |---|---|---| | The 100 newest adverts on the whole board | 100, 98 with the full advert | 12 seconds | | 7 keywords in 3 cities within 20 miles, up to 8 per search (21 searches) | 87, all with the full advert | 9 seconds | | The 1,000 newest adverts on the whole board | 997, 993 with the full advert | 2 minutes 6 seconds | Larger runs settle at about 470 jobs a minute with full adverts. Not every advert states every field. On the 1,000-advert run (997 rows): - Salary numbers on 871. The others publish text such as "depending on experience". - Pay band on 710. Most GP practices, hospices and private providers aren't on Agenda for Change or the medical pay scales, and state none. - Person specification, contact and the full advert on 993, and the employer website on 992. - Apply link and employer reference on 800, attached document names on 747. - Registration requirement on 555, contract duration on 205. ### How much does it cost to scrape NHS Jobs? | Event | Free plan | Starter | Scale | Business | |---|---|---|---|---| | `actor-start`, per run | $0.002 | $0.002 | $0.002 | $0.002 | | `job-scanned`, per result card seen, before filters | $0.00005 | $0.00005 | $0.00005 | $0.00005 | | `job-detail`, per job returned with its full advert | $0.0008 | $0.00072 | $0.00064 | $0.00056 | | `job-listed`, per job returned from search-result data only | $0.0002 | $0.00018 | $0.00016 | $0.00014 | Enterprise plans pay the Business price. **$0.80 per 1,000 jobs with full adverts** on the Free plan and $0.56 on Business. Proxy usage is included, and so is platform usage. Three real shapes of run: - 21 searches that scan 128 cards and return 87 full adverts: $0.002 + 128 × $0.00005 + 87 × $0.0008 = **$0.078** ($0.057 on Business). - The 1,000 newest adverts, with 1,000 cards scanned, 993 full adverts and 4 listing-only: $0.002 + 1,000 × $0.00005 + 993 × $0.0008 + 4 × $0.0002 = **$0.85** ($0.61 on Business). - A daily monitor that scans 300 cards and finds 20 new adverts: $0.002 + 300 × $0.00005 + 20 × $0.0008 = **$0.033** ($0.028 on Business). Duplicates, adverts you've already had, and adverts removed by the employer, title or date filters cost the scan fee only. With the $5 of monthly credits on Apify's Free plan you can pull about 5,700 NHS jobs with full adverts, in runs of 100. ### FAQ #### Does it cover every NHS vacancy? Every advert on NHS Jobs, which is where NHS trusts, integrated care boards, GP practices and many independent providers in England and Wales advertise. NHS Scotland and Health and Social Care Northern Ireland use their own boards, so a Scottish or Northern Irish location returns few adverts or none. #### How do I get only one trust's vacancies? Put the trust's name, or part of it, in "Employers". It's matched against the employer name without regard to case. A name copied from this actor's output filters as you'd expect: the name on the search result and on the advert were identical on 60 of 60 adverts we compared. #### My "nurse" search returned jobs that aren't nursing jobs. Why? NHS Jobs matches a keyword against the whole advert, so a porter role that mentions nurses qualifies. Add "Title must contain" to keep matching titles only, or sort by relevance to put them first. #### Can I filter by band? "Pay bands" takes Band 2 to Band 9, including 8a to 8d, and the medical grades. Several bands are combined as either-or, and they combine with staff group, contract type, working pattern and salary. #### Is the salary a number? Where the advert states one: 871 of 997 on the measured run. `salaryPeriod` says whether the figure is per year, hour, day or session, and `salaryText` always has the original wording. #### Which Newport did it search? A place name the board can't pin to one place is looked up in each UK nation and searched in the nation with the most adverts for it. To choose, write the nation after a comma: "Newport, England". For a smaller place with a common name ("Richmond"), give a postcode or a fuller name ("Richmond upon Thames"). #### How do I get only new vacancies each day? Give "Only-new store name" a name and schedule the run. Each run returns the adverts it hasn't returned before, and the ones it skips cost the scan fee. #### What are the limits? - About one advert in eight states its salary as text only. Sorted by lowest salary, NHS Jobs lists those first. - A location NHS Jobs doesn't know at all returns no rows for that search, with a line in the log. - Sorted by closing date, NHS Jobs repeats some adverts from page to page when many close on one day. Repeats are returned once and cost the scan fee, so such a search can return fewer jobs than its cap. - Attached documents are named, not downloaded. You can get them from the advert page. - An advert withdrawn between the search and the detail fetch arrives with the search-result fields and a `detailError`, charged as `job-listed`. - NHS Jobs has planned maintenance windows, seen between 07:00 and 09:30 UK time. A search run during one writes an uncharged row with the search and an `error` message. - A text column can contain stray markup where the employer's own advert does (about 2 in 1,000 adverts). #### Do I need proxies, an NHS Jobs account or an API key? No. The board is read as any logged-out visitor sees it. Proxy usage is included and you set nothing up. #### Is scraping NHS Jobs legal? NHS Jobs serves these vacancies to any visitor, and they're published to be found. Scraping public data is generally legal. The contact names and emails inside adverts are personal data, so treat them as the law where you operate requires. ### Monitors, boards and your own code Healthcare recruiters and job boards mostly run this as a daily monitor: an Apify Schedule, an only-new store, and a webhook or Slack message with the day's new posts. Workforce analysts tend to pull a band or staff group nationally each week and send it to Google Sheets or through Airbyte. From code, `POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/boncross~nhs-jobs/run-sync-get-dataset-items` with the input JSON as the body gives you the vacancies in the response on short runs. For the bigger pulls use the standard run endpoints or the `apify-client` package (NPM for Node.js, PyPI for Python). Through the Apify MCP server at `mcp.apify.com`, an AI agent can call the actor as a tool and, say, list this week's Band 5 nursing vacancies in Bristol with their closing dates. ### More from BonCross - [UK Government & NHS Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/boncross/uk-public-sector-jobs): NHS Jobs, Civil Service Jobs (every department) and Ministry of Justice vacancies in… - [Reed.co.uk Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/boncross/reed-jobs-scraper): Reed.co.uk jobs by keyword and location with Reed's own filters: salary, contract,… - [Workday Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/boncross/workday-jobs): Every open job from a Workday careers board. - [Ashby Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/boncross/ashby-jobs): Every open job on an Ashby careers board. - [ATS Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/boncross/ats-jobs): Jobs from any company careers page. - [Accor Hotel Details Scraper](https://apify.com/boncross/accor-hotel-details): Full Accor hotel records. ### Your feedback If a band, a salary or a trust name comes back wrong, send us the advert link on the Issues tab in Apify Console. We read every issue and check it against the live advert. # Changelog This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/boncross/nhs-jobs/changelog.md # Actor input Schema ## `keywords` (type: `array`): Job titles, skills or reference words to search NHS Jobs for, for example "staff nurse", "healthcare assistant" or "medical secretary". One search per keyword per location. Leave empty to take every advert in the locations. ## `locations` (type: `array`): Town, city or postcode; each is searched within the distance below. Leave empty to search the whole of NHS Jobs. A name shared by places in different nations ("Newport") is searched where NHS Jobs has the most adverts for it; add the nation after a comma to choose ("Newport, England", "Newport, Wales"). ## `distanceMiles` (type: `integer`): Radius around each location. ## `maxJobsPerSearch` (type: `integer`): Cap per keyword and location. ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): A run-wide ceiling across every search. The per-search limit above applies to each keyword and location separately, so ten searches at 50 each returns 500; set this to cap the total. Zero means no run-wide limit. Rows that report a search that could not be run are not counted here and are never charged for. ## `sortBy` (type: `string`): The order NHS Jobs lists each search in: newest first, closing soonest, most relevant, salary, or nearest first (nearest to each location; needs a location). With a cap, this decides which adverts you get. ## `payBands` (type: `array`): Agenda for Change bands and medical grades. Several are combined as either-or. ## `staffGroups` (type: `array`): NHS staff groups, for example nursing and midwifery, administrative and clerical, or estates and ancillary. Several are combined as either-or. ## `contractTypes` (type: `array`): Permanent, fixed-term, bank and the other contract types NHS Jobs lists. ## `workingPatterns` (type: `array`): Full-time, part-time, job share, flexible, home or remote working and the other patterns NHS Jobs lists. ## `payRanges` (type: `array`): NHS Jobs' pay-range boxes, in £ thousands a year ("40-50" is £40,000 to £50,000; "100" is £100,000 and over). Hourly-paid adverts are matched on their yearly equivalent. ## `salaryFrom` (type: `integer`): Lower end of a salary range, in whole pounds a year. 0 means no lower end. ## `salaryTo` (type: `integer`): Upper end of a salary range, in whole pounds a year. 0 means no upper end. ## `postedWithinDays` (type: `integer`): Drop adverts posted more than this many days ago. 0 means any age. ## `closingAfter` (type: `string`): Drop adverts that close before this date. Adverts that have already closed are always dropped. ## `employers` (type: `array`): Keep only adverts whose employer name contains one of these, case-insensitive, for example "Guy's and St Thomas'" or "Ambulance Service". Applied before a job is charged as detailed. ## `titleInclude` (type: `array`): Keep only titles containing one of these, case-insensitive. ## `titleExclude` (type: `array`): Drop titles containing any of these, case-insensitive. ## `fetchDetails` (type: `boolean`): On, each row carries the full advert: description, duties, person specification, band, address, contact and apply link, charged as job-detail. Off, you get the search-result fields only (title, employer, location, salary, dates, contract type and working pattern), charged at the cheaper job-listed rate. ## `maxNewJobs` (type: `integer`): Stop after this many jobs have been returned. 0 means no cap. ## `dedupStoreName` (type: `string`): Name a key-value store and the actor remembers every job it has returned, so scheduled runs give you only new adverts. ## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`): How many requests run at once across the whole run. The default is the fastest level measured clean; lower it only if a run reports refusals or errors. ## `delayMs` (type: `integer`): Optional pause before each call, in milliseconds, up to 2,000. 0 (the default) runs as fast as the parallel limit allows. ## Actor input object example ```json { "keywords": [ "staff nurse" ], "locations": [ "London" ], "distanceMiles": 10, "maxJobsPerSearch": 100, "maxItems": 0, "sortBy": "newest", "payBands": [], "staffGroups": [], "contractTypes": [], "workingPatterns": [], "payRanges": [], "salaryFrom": 0, "salaryTo": 0, "postedWithinDays": 0, "employers": [], "titleInclude": [], "titleExclude": [], "fetchDetails": true, "maxNewJobs": 0, "maxConcurrency": 16, "delayMs": 0 } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `dataset` (type: `string`): NHS jobs: every row the run returned. ## `stats` (type: `string`): Counts for the run: what was searched, scanned, filtered and returned. # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '