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NHS Lothian Pharmacy & Medicines Service
Band 6 Rotational Pharmacists
Permanent, 37.5 Hours per week
(with weekend, public holiday and oncall commitment)
Salary: £35,522 - £43,286
Join our team of Rotational Pharmacists
Are you enthusiastic, motivated and keen to develop your career as a hospital pharmacist? Come and join our friendly, diverse, supportive and dynamic NHS Lothian team as a Rotational Pharmacist.
Our pharmacy service is rapidly developing and it’s an exciting time to join our team. We are recruiting now for posts across acute and mental health hospital sites including:
- Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh
- Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (includes the Royal Hospital for Children & Young People, Edinburgh)
- St John's Hospital, Livingston
- Western General Hospital, Edinburgh (includes Edinburgh Cancer Centre)
We’ve redesigned our Band 6 Rotational training programme so it’s aligned with the new NHS Education for Scotland (NES) post-registration foundation programme. Our training blocks will provide a structured and supportive environment for you to develop your clinical and non-clinical skills. You’ll deliver increasingly complex person-centred care across a range of clinical settings, develop your prescribing capabilities, work within our core department areas, and integrate with our pharmacy and wider multiprofessional teams. We think it’s important you have exposure to the breadth of our pharmacy services and have incorporated small group learning sessions with our pharmacy specialist services (quality, clinical trials, radiopharmacy, pharmacologistics, medicines governance and homecare) and a rotation within medicines information. You’ll also have the option to rotate through mental health and/or primary care. Our training programme supports your professional growth, builds your networks, and ensures we have well-rounded pharmacists with the mindset and skills to continually improve patient care and service delivery. See site specific information below for more information.
The NES post-registration foundation programme includes entry onto an independent prescribing course delivered by one of the universities in Scotland. For more information click here
Next steps
This is a rolling advert for Band 6 Rotational Pharmacist recruitment opportunities across all sites listed above. Please indicate your preferred hospital site(s) within your application; if you are interested in posts on multiple sites please rank the sites clearly in your order of preference. Successful candidates will be matched against available vacancies considering service need, individual preference, skills and development needs. Although posts will be based in one of our hospital pharmacy departments, there will be a requirement to work at any site to meet the needs of the service.
To apply you should be a pharmacist registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council but applications are also welcome from trainee pharmacists (in any sector) due to qualify in July 2023.
NHS Lothian offers an opportunity to explore flexible working which encompasses a range of options, which allow staff more flexibility in shaping their own working pattern while delivering the needs of the service across our teams. If you wish to be considered for, flexible working opportunities please state your preferred option in your application.
For more information please contact Ewan McLean, Lead Pharmacist Surgery WGH at
Email: ewan.mclean@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk or bleep 8535 via switchboard 0131 5371000