Pharmacists, are you ready for a change or to try something new?
Nithsdale Community Health and Social Care (CHSC) team are looking to recruit a motivated, proactive and enthusiastic pharmacist to work within our Pharmacy Hub and GP practices on a fixed term contract.
Our team of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy support workers make up the GP practice clinical pharmacy service, taking a leading role in medicines management and medication review as part of the primary care multidisciplinary team.
It is a rewarding role, helping patients in Dumfries and Galloway to safely manage their medicines.
You will provide a clinical pharmacy service directly to patients.
Day-to-day responsibilities might include: clinical assessment and review of patients, performing complex polypharmacy medication reviews with patients, dealing with medicines related queries, assessing patients ability to manage their medicines (including in the patient's home), medicine reconciliation and prescribing of medication.
Joint working with GP practice staff will be routine, as well as with the multidisciplinary teams within the local hospitals, Community Pharmacies and Home Teams.
The education, training and development of our staff are of paramount importance to us.
If you have not already done so, you will undertake the competency and capability based training programme provided by NES for General Practice Clinical Pharmacists.
This will give you a solid platform on which to go on and build your career with us here in Dumfries & Galloway.
Additionally, there is a requirement within this post to work as an Independent Prescriber and you will therefore have the opportunity to gain your Pharmacist Independent Prescriber qualification if you do not already have this.This is an incredibly exciting time to be joining the award winning team that we have here in Dumfries & Galloway.
It's a fantastic place to live and work and we are determined that whatever your interests as a pharmacy professional, there will be an opportunity for you to develop your career here with us.