£48,788 - £56,747
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
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NHS Lothian Pharmacy & Medicines Service
Specialist Pharmacist 2 POSTS Band 7
1. Post 1 - Vascular Surgery 1.0wte - Permanent
2. Post 2 - Renal Medicine up to 1.0wte - Fixed term/secondment 12 months
(Oncall, weekend and public holiday rota commitment included)
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 focused on creating an environment where each person in the team has the opportunity to flourish, develop and make best use of their skills.
Opportunities have arisen to join the GIRLTV pharmacy team. Clinical specialties within GIRLTV include: Gastrointestinal and Renal Medicine, Hepatology, Liver and Renal Transplant, Vascular and General Surgery and Haematology.
The successful candidates will work alongside the vascular surgery or renal medicine teams, where pharmacists have an established non-medical prescribing role. The post holders will contribute to the development and delivery of the clinical pharmacy service supporting site capacity and patient flow.
Ideally, candidates will have experience of pro-actively influencing prescribing within a clinical setting and will have gained experience working in a patient focused environment using their knowledge and skills to improve patient care and promote optimal outcomes from medicines.
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.
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.
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