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An exciting opportunity exists to join our pharmacy team, based at Borders General Hospital (BGH). Your role within the multidisciplinary and pharmacy teams is to lead, develop and provide clinical pharmacy services within Gastroenterology, with a particular focus on the medicines management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, you will work to deliver best patient care both within inpatient and outpatient settings as well as supporting the delivery of regional and national programmes.
This is an opportunity to bring your ideas and influence to our current clinical pharmacy service and enable us to continue to maximise the potential for patient centred care and support our implementation of Achieving Excellence in a specialist clinical area.
You will be a highly specialist practitioner with the necessary level of therapeutic knowledge, practical skills and diverse experience to provide high quality patient-centred care. Good team working and interpersonal skills are essential along with the ability to provide professional leadership to take forward service development and ensure the continued success and response of our service to the changing, and challenging, healthcare environment.
We are looking for an experienced pharmacist with extensive clinical knowledge, a post-graduate diploma/MSc or equivalent experience and ideally an Independent Prescriber qualification, or willing to work towards this.
Applications are welcomed from those seeking part-time or hybrid working positions.
Ideally your career to date will have included hospital pharmacy.
For enquiries please contact: Cathryn Park (Deputy Director of Pharmacy): cathryn.park@borders.scot.nhs.uk Tel: 01896 827702
***PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early***
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.