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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.
The post holder is the lead pharmacy professional for the development and implementation of safe and effective medicines management systems and medicines governance within all prison and police custody settings in Lothian.
Providing expert pharmaceutical advice on the safe, clinical, and cost-effective use of medicines within prison and police custody settings, the post holder will develop, implement, and report a programme of audit, quality improvement, risk management and assurance reporting to the relevant management team.
The post holder is an autonomous clinical practitioner within the healthcare centre and utilises their independent prescribing qualification to optimise the pharmaceutical care of individual patients.
The post holder leads a programme of medicines education and training for all healthcare staff working in the prison and custody settings including medical, nursing, AHP and pharmacy technicians.
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.
For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions please contact Marianne Van-Di Lisle on 0131 537 6842.