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.
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.
SPECIALIST CLINICAL PHARMACIST – Hospital at Home and Community Hospitals AFC Band 7 Pharmacist (Full time, job-share or part-time will be considered) Salary Scale: £46,244- £53,789 pro rata Are you a pharmacist that thrives working within multidisciplinary teams, contributes to patient-centred clinical decision-making and ward rounds, able to work autonomously and use their Independent Prescriber qualification on a daily basis?
West Lothian Health and Social Care Partnership are looking for a forward thinking, independent and enthusiastic pharmacist to support delivery of pharmaceutical care in both primary and secondary care as well as at the interface of the two.
You will be required to: Be an integral part of the award winning West Lothian Hospital at Home team and the wider Rapid Elderly Assessment & Care Team (REACT).
This also includes the West Lothian Community Hospitals.
Support and contribute to pharmaceutical care initiatives lead by the West Lothian Primary Care Pharmacy Team (WLPCPT) such as polypharmacy reviews.
Help frail patients achieve the best from their medicine.
Work collaboratively with medical, nursing and AHP colleagues in delivering patient-centred care and realistic medicine.
Provide both ward based and community based pharmaceutical service to older people with complex medical needs as part of a wider multidisciplinary team.
Liaise with secondary care pharmacy colleagues and primary care pharmacy colleagues as required.
NHS Lothian serves a population of approximately 1 million people, employs 35,000 people and is fundamentally focussed on improving the health and wellbeing of the population.
The NHS Lothian Primary Care Pharmacy and Medicines Service is undergoing an ambitious programme of transformation and integration.
Pharmaceutical care is provided by a team of around 45 pharmacy staff, including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and administrators, working across General Practices and Pharmacotherapy Hubs covering the whole of West Lothian.
Partnership working is at the core of our values, and we work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, including our Community Pharmacy colleagues, to deliver the highest quality care for everyone in Lothian.
Do you want to be at the forefront of transforming the delivery of pharmaceutical care?
Do you want to work in an environment that values staff and supports their learning, growth and wellbeing?
Do you want to work with a dynamic team who have the ambition to be "the best Pharmacy service in Scotland"?
Who you are: You are an experienced pharmacist looking for a post you can make your own.
You are by nature dynamic, highly self motivated and self directed.
You will also be GPhC registered.
You may have a community or hospital pharmacy background, working within a GP Practice as a pharmacist or already working with a hospital at home team.
Candidates should have postgraduate experience working in a patient focused clinical environment, using their knowledge and skills to improve patient care and promote optimal outcomes from medicines.
You should have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrate leadership and innovation consistent with NHS Lothian's values of quality, teamwork, care and compassion, dignity and respect, and openness, honesty and responsibility.
You will have experience of involvement in the development and education of others.
The ideal candidate will be an experienced pharmacist independent prescriber and will be able to work autonomously as well as part of a team.
This post will give you the opportunity to continue to develop your clinical skills as part of the Hospital at Home and Community Hospitals team covering West Lothian, to provide holistic, patient-centred individualised care to improve the safety and effectiveness of individual's 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 available at: Post-Registration Foundation Programme for pharmacists | NHS Edu Being qualified as an independent prescriber would be desirable although training opportunities are available for post-graduate study.
You will have access to a full range of benefits including generous holiday allowance, NHS pension and parental leave.
For further information, or an informal chat about this opportunity, please contact: Katie Miles, Advanced Clinical Pharmacist at ****** or Hazel Brown, Advanced Clinical Pharmacist at ****** Interviews will be held on MS Teams.
If due to work commitments, you are unable to make the interview please discuss with Katie Miles or Hazel Brown as alternative arrangements may be available.
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.