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Job reference: 160366
Salary: Band 8A (£56,992 - £61,522)
Job closing date: 01/11/2023
Job Type: Other Therapeutic
Location: Aberdeenshire H&SCP
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 37.5
Job posted date: 18/10/2023
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Grampian
Department: Pharmacy - Aberdeenshire HSCP

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Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership

Advanced Primary Care Clinical Pharmacist

Band 8a

Two posts covering Garioch/Marr Clusters

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (full time or part time will be considered)

  • Garioch – Inverurie/Skene/Insch/Kemnay G.P. Practices & Inverurie Community Hospital
  • Marr – Aboyne /Alford/Banchory/Ballater/Braemar/Bydand (Huntly)/Torphins/Strathdon Practices & Aboyne, Jubilee & Glen O Dee Community Hospitals


We are looking for enthusiastic experienced pharmacists to join the pharmacy team within the Marr and Garioch areas.  Two posts of 37.5hours are available; part time may be considered (minimum of 22.5 hours per week).

As part of the Aberdeenshire Pharmacy Team you will be expected to lead, oversee and develop the pharmacy service within your allocated GP practices and Community Hospitals including: medication/polypharmacy reviews; medicines reconciliation; actioning hospital discharge letters, actioning acute and repeat prescription requests; providing prescribing advice to any member of the health care team; reviewing prescribing data; undertaking audit; answering ad-hoc queries; attending  multi-disciplinary team meetings; supporting social care colleagues with medication-related issues in care at home services. In addition you will have a role in supervising and training other members of the HSCP pharmacy team, including supervision of undergraduate student placements.

All candidates must have a degree in Pharmacy and be on the practicing register of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC); have an Independent Prescribing qualification and a relevant postgraduate pharmacy qualification (minimum diploma level)/professional accreditations or demonstration of acquisition of equivalent knowledge through significant post qualification experience; extensive clinical knowledge; good IT skills; excellent communication and interpersonal skills; be a car driver and have access to a car.

For any queries about this post, we would encourage any prospective applicants to make informal enquiries to one of the Lead Pharmacists:

                     Emma Milne                                    Elaine Neil

Tel:                           01224 556415                                   07772 581031

Email                      emma.milne3@nhs.scot                    elaine.neil@nhs.scot






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