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NHS LOTHIAN
West Lothian Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP)
SPECIALIST CLINICAL PHARMACIST – Hospital at Home and Community Hospitals
AFC Band 7 Pharmacist
(Full time, job-share or part-time will be considered)
Salary Scale: £46,244- £53,789 pro rata
West Lothian Health and Social Care Partnership are looking for a dynamic, highly motivated and enthusiastic pharmacist to support delivery of pharmaceutical care in both primary and secondary care, contributing to:
- Working with hospital at home and other teams in West Lothian where appropriate
- Provision and support of pharmaceutical care initiatives in primary care in co-operation with primary care, social care and community pharmacies e.g. medication reviews, improving compliance and polypharmacy reviews as part of wider multi-disciplinary team.
- Liaising with secondary care acute and St John’s Hospital.
- Providing direct pharmaceutical care to older people with complex needs both in primary care and in community hospitals.
NHS Lothian serves a population of approximately 1 million people, employs 35,000 people and is fundamentally focussed on improving the health and wellbeing of the population.
The NHS Lothian Primary Care Pharmacy and Medicines Service is undergoing an ambitious programme of transformation and integration. Pharmaceutical care is provided by a team of around 45 pharmacy staff, including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and administrators, working across General Practices and Pharmacotherapy Hubs covering the whole of West Lothian.
Partnership working is at the core of our values, and we work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, including our Community Pharmacy colleagues, to deliver the highest quality care for everyone in Lothian.
Do you want to be at the forefront of transforming the delivery of pharmaceutical care? Do you want to work in an environment that values staff and supports their learning, growth and wellbeing? Do you want to work with a dynamic team who have the ambition to be “the best Pharmacy service in Scotland”?
Who you are:
You are a dynamic, highly motivated and enthusiastic, GPhC registered pharmacist.
You may have a community or hospital pharmacy background, be working within a GP Practice as a pharmacist or already be working with a hospital at home team. Candidates will have gained postgraduate experience working in a patient focused clinical environment, using their knowledge and skills to improve patient care and promote optimal outcomes from medicines.
You should have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrate leadership and innovation consistent with NHS Lothian's values of quality, teamwork, care and compassion, dignity and respect, and openness, honesty and responsibility. You will have experience of involvement in the development and education of others.
The ideal candidate will be an experienced pharmacist independent prescriber and will be able to work autonomously as well as part of a team.
What we offer:
We are creating innovative career pathways to develop clinical leaders.
This post will give you the opportunity to continue to develop your clinical skills as part of the Hospital at Home and Community Hospitals team covering West Lothian, to provide holistic, patient-centred individualised care to improve the safety and effectiveness of individual’s medicines.
If not already completed, there will be opportunities and support for successful applicants to complete the General Practice Clinical Pharmacist Competency & Capability Framework, a post graduate clinical diploma and the independent prescribing qualification. You will receive support from senior pharmacists, as well as peer support from the wider pharmacy team. You will have ringfenced development time during your working week.
You will have access to a full range of benefits including generous holiday allowance, NHS pension and parental leave.
For further information, or an informal chat about this opportunity, please contact:
Katie Miles, Advanced Clinical Pharmacist at katie.miles@nhs.scot
or Hazel Brown, Advanced Clinical Pharmacist at hazel.brown@nhs.scot
Interviews will be held on MS Teams.
If due to work commitments, you are unable to make the interview please discuss with Katie Miles or Hazel Brown as alternative arrangements may be available.
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.