NHS Lothian Pharmacy & Medicines Service
St John’s Hospital
Specialist Pharmacist
Band 7 Permanent (2.0 WTE, 37 hours)
(including evening, weekend, on-call and public holidays commitment)
NHS Lothian covers Edinburgh city, East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian. We are the second largest health system in NHS Scotland and one of only four teaching Boards. We serve a population of 900,000, providing a range of primary, community based and acute hospital services.
The vision for the Pharmacy & Medicines service is to deliver clinically led, person-centred services to ensure patients across Lothian get the best from their medicines and pharmacy services. We are focussed on creating an environment where each person in the team has the opportunity to flourish, develop and make best use of their skills.
With new investment for clinical pharmacy services at St John’s Hospital, these posts are a unique opportunity for pharmacists looking for the next step in their career. Working across a clinical portfolio of medical and surgical specialties, these posts will initially be based in medical specialties, where our Specialist Pharmacists are focused on delivering high quality care to our acute and general medicine ward areas. These posts will also test new ways of delivering pharmaceutical care in the care of the elderly services, taking on a key pharmacist role in the multidisciplinary team ward rounds as part of the frailty service.
Candidates should have excellent clinical, organisational and interpersonal skills. Experience in working in a patient-focused environment and proactively influencing prescribing within the MDT is highly desirable.
Candidates must have a Master of Pharmacy Degree or equivalent, must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), and should have completed or have equivalent competence as mapped to the Post Registration Foundation Pharmacist Framework. Being qualified as an independent prescriber would be desirable although training opportunities are available for post-graduate study.
This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.
We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
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