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207982 R3 - Specialist Pharmacist (AJM), Livingston
Client: NHS Scotland
Location: Livingston, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 09bc55fc419f
Job Views: 6
Posted: 11.03.2025
Expiry Date: 25.04.2025
Job Description:
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 have strategic partnerships with local Universities, Local Authorities and our four Integration Joint Boards. We serve a population of 900,000, providing a range of primary, community based and acute hospital services. We also provide regional and national services across a range of clinical specialties.
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, and participating in the wider clinical pharmacy services provision to the medical admissions unit. St John’s Hospital is the future home of NHS Lothian’s National Treatment Centre, and these posts are an exciting opportunity to work within the new surgical national treatment centre when built.
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 available at: Post-Registration Foundation Programme for Pharmacists in Sc. Being qualified as an independent prescriber would be desirable although training opportunities are available for post-graduate study.
For further information please contact: Mark Power, Lead Care of the Elderly Pharmacist - St John’s Hospital, telephone 01506 523646 or Anne Neally, Lead Pharmacist Critical Care & Surgery – St John’s Hospital 01506 522034. Alternatively you can email at emailprotected or emailprotected.
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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