The Role
Would you like to be involved in the Women and Children’s Pharmacy Team within NHS Lanarkshire?
University Hospital Wishaw has an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to join the team providing services to neonatal and maternity patients. You will work within the multidisciplinary clinical teams attending daily ward rounds and providing pharmaceutical advice and support to patients and carers. This role will allow you to develop your prescribing and clinical skills within a specialist patient group, concentrating on medicines governance and implementing guidance to ensure safe prescribing practices. Provision of education and training is critical to the role and includes pharmacy staff, EL students, foundation year trainees, medical, nursing and ANP. There will also be opportunity to provide pharmacy cover to the Paediatric Wards.
It is essential that you have a Master of Pharmacy Degree and are a member of the General Pharmaceutical Council. You should have experience in providing hospital clinical pharmacy services and be signed off to undertake the prescribing course if not already a prescriber. Experience within this speciality is not essential as full training will be provided. You will require good clinical knowledge and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.