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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.
Pharmacist Outreach and leadership of Pharmacist outreach across Edinburgh city.
A once in a lifetime opportunity to play a clinical leadership, practice, and teaching role in Scotland’s (and Pharmacy’s) first definitive randomised controlled trial of Pharmacist and third sector homeless worker outreach intervention for people experiencing homelessness, and street drug use with previous criminal justice encounters.
The successful candidate will become an integral part of a multicentre research team (NHS Tayside, Ayrshire and Arran, Grampian, Highland, and Lanarkshire) and contribute to research outputs e.g. publication of findings, and have an opportunity to present findings at diverse fora. You will have an opportunity to deliver teaching and learning events to a wide selection of pharmacist and nurse prescribers and social care professionals across Scottish trial settings, linked to the University of Edinburgh Centre for Homelessness and Inclusion Health.
You will provide clinical pharmacy leadership and operational and project management to outreach Pharmacists delivering care in the sites in Edinburgh city including Edinburgh Access Place and steer the role of third sector collaborators. leadership to a team of outreach pharmacists based at The Access Place.
The successful candidate will be managed as part of the Edinburgh HSCP pharmacy team and join an established peer review network of Pharmacists across the HSCP.
Who you are:
You will be an independent prescriber, experienced and specialist in delivering holistic outreach care to people experiencing homelessness. You will have experience in providing inclusion health clinical training to pharmacists and other health and third sector workers, and adept at organising and leading multidisciplinary teams in this area of practice. You will be familiar with relevant research and evaluation methods and have the experience to drive forward research locally. You will be confident in prescribing for people with multimorbidities including problem poly-substance use, in collaboration with GPs, and the wider Pharmacy team in Edinburgh HSCP.
Being nimble and resilient enough to cope with a large caseload of patients and navigate complexity, are key attributes. With street sense, empathy, and the ability to work as part of Edinburgh City’s Access Place and with Streetwork (Edinburgh’s main outreach service for people experiencing homelessness), you will have a proven settled wish and strong motivation to tackle health and social inequalities. You will have a track record of managing and delivering projects and previous experience of people management.
You will promote 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 able to work autonomously as well as part of a 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. Candidates will have undertaken a postgraduate qualification at diploma level*.
*Candidates who have not completed a clinical diploma or master’s in clinical pharmacy must demonstrate:
· Engagement with the RPS Core Advanced Curriculum
· Active participation in a community of practice e.g., Club LA, NES peer review group etc
· Submit a screenshot of their portfolio (programme of learning page)
· Complete the RPS learning needs analysis tool to assess progress with the Core Advanced Curriculum and gaps that will need addressed as part of PDP plans.
For informal enquiries contact:
Barry Chapman (Lead Pharmacist South East Edinburgh) at barry.chapman2@nhs.scot
Richard Lowrie (Outreach Pharmacist, The Access Place) on t: 07971 827565 or email Richard.lowrie@ed.ac.uk
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.
*Please note: As this post is part-time the salary will be pro-rata.*