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Job reference: 168113
Salary: Band 8A (£56,992 - £61,522)
Job closing date: 06/11/2023
Job Type: Other Therapeutic
Location: Borders General Hospital
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 37.5
Job posted date: 23/10/2023
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Borders
Department: Pharmacy

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• Care and Compassion • Quality and Teamwork • Dignity and Respect • Openness, honesty and responsibility


An exciting opportunity exists to join our pharmacy team at NHS Borders. Your role will involve ongoing delivery and development of the first regional medicines formulary within NHS Scotland across NHS Borders, NHS Lothian and NHS Fife.

You will be an experienced practitioner with a necessary level of therapeutic knowledge and diverse experience to work within this role. Good team working and interpersonal skills are essential along with the ability to provide professional leadership to take forward service development locally and regionally and support response of the service to the changing, and challenging, healthcare environment.

There will be a clinical commitment within this job role that can be based upon previous experience and that will also provide opportunity for development.

We are looking for an experienced pharmacist with 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.

For enquiries please contact: Cathryn Park (Deputy Director of Pharmacy): cathryn.park@borders.scot.nhs.uk Tel: 01896 827702 or Keith Maclure (Lead Pharmacist - Medicines Utilisation & Planning) keith.maclure@borders.scot.nhs.uk Tel: 07900 018275

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.


**PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early***

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