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Department of Pharmacy
Western General Hospital
Specialist Clinical Pharmacist – HIV/Gender
Band 7
0.6 WTE (Permanent)
£46,244 - £53,789 pro rata
(on-call, weekend and public holidays rota commitment included)
NHS Lothian covers Edinburgh city, East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian. We are the second largest health system in NHS Scotland and one of only four teaching Boards. We have strategic partnerships with local Universities, Local Authorities and our four Integration Joint Boards. We serve a population of 900,000, providing a range of primary, community based and acute hospital services. We also provide regional and national services across a range of clinical specialties.
The vision for the Pharmacy & Medicines service is to deliver clinically led, person-centred services to ensure patients across Lothian get the best from their medicines and pharmacy services. We are focussed on creating an environment where each person in the team has the opportunity to flourish, develop and make best use of their skills.
The post holder will be based at the Chalmers Centre but will be part of the Pharmacy team in the Regional Infectious Diseases Unit at the Western General Hospital (WGH) delivering high quality services to this patient group. Weekend and public holiday commitment will take place at WGH. This is an exciting opportunity for a patient focused, dynamic, motivated and forward thinking individual to work closely with the multidisciplinary teams to develop and deliver highest quality outpatient pharmacy services to the Chalmers HIV and Gender Services. The Pharmacy team is well established within the HIV service with excellent inter-professional relationships while the pharmacy role in Gender Service is relatively new providing an excellent opportunity for service development within the clinical speciality. We are also committed to personal development considering the 4 pillars of advanced pharmacy practice.
The candidate will have experience of pro-actively influencing prescribing within a clinical setting. They will have a passion for quality improvement and for delivering excellent patient-centred care promoting optimal outcomes from medicines and demonstrating NHS Lothian values. This post requires excellent inter personal skills along with the ability to work with an extensive multidisciplinary team to build professional relationships and act as a role model for the pharmacy profession. Contribution to service development will be expected and the applicants must be flexible and innovative to support the development of the clinical pharmacy service to HIV and Gender services within Chalmers.
Candidates must have a master of pharmacy degree or equivalent and must be registered with the GPhC and should have completed or have equivalent competence as mapped to the post registration pharmacist Framework.
We would be keen to welcome anyone who may be interested in this post to visit the pharmacy department to meet the team and find out more about the post.
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 please contact:
Elspeth Boxall, Lead Pharmacist Chalmers HIV/Gender
Or
Jin Hah, Site Lead Pharmacist WGH/SCAN
We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
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.