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A career defining role in a place you’ll love to live and work. NHS Fife is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a motivated pharmacist to join our vibrant and rapidly developing Primary Care Pharmacy Team in North East Fife.
This is a fantastic chance to become part of a friendly, forward thinking service that truly values innovation, collaboration, and high quality, person centred care. As a Practice Pharmacist, you’ll work closely with our GP practices to deliver high impact pharmaceutical care, including polypharmacy reviews, medicines reconciliation, acute and repeat prescribing support, and independent prescribing activity. With prescribing fully embedded across the service, you’ll have the opportunity to utilise your clinical skills every day.
Why join us?
A supportive, integrated, award winning pharmacy service You’ll be warmly welcomed into a well established multidisciplinary team that includes Senior Practice Pharmacists, Practice Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Medicines Management Support Workers. We believe in helping our staff thrive — through strong leadership, mentorship, and meaningful development opportunities.
Real scope for professional growth
Whether you're already working in primary care or looking to transition from hospital or community pharmacy, we will support you every step of the way. You’ll have access to:
• Regular clinical development sessions
• Peer support and mentorship
• Opportunities for quality improvement and innovation
• A wide range of CPD and multidisciplinary education events
Primary care experience is beneficial but not essential — if you're enthusiastic, clinically capable and keen to develop, we’ll provide full training.
A role that makes a real difference
You’ll be embedded within local practices, working as a key member of the multidisciplinary team to ensure patients across North East Fife receive safe, effective, and evidence based care. Your work will help optimise medicines use, improve outcomes, reduce harm, and support sustainable prescribing.
A beautiful place to build a career
North East Fife includes 11 diverse and welcoming practices — the proportion you would cover will be tailored to your working hours. Primarily based in the picturesque East Neuk, you’ll be working in one of Scotland’s most scenic and accessible regions. Hybrid working will be considered too.
With excellent transport links, affordable living, and a high quality of life, Fife really does offer the best of both worlds.
You will:
• Provide high quality pharmaceutical care to patients in GP practices and community settings
• Deliver structured medication reviews, polypharmacy reviews and undertake independent prescribing
• Offer specialist medicines advice to clinicians and patients
• Support safe, effective and cost effective prescribing
• Participate in quality improvement, audits, guidelines and service development
• Work collaboratively across the primary care and community pharmacy interface
Full time hours are available (36h), with part time options considered.
Existing permanent employees must first discuss this opportunity with their substantive line manager. The secondment policy can be found here Hub • Blink (joinblink.com) If you do not have approval for a secondment from your current line manager, you will not be able to progress your application for a fixed term post. External applicants, with continuous NHS Service, must also have in place a secondment agreement, from their existing board to apply for this post.
We’d love to tell you more — or you can even arrange to spend time with the team to see the role in action. Informal enquiries: Calum Murray, Lead Clinical Pharmacist – Primary Care calum.murray2@nhs.scot
A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.
As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here.
It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.
We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
Please note the salary is pro rata for part time hours.
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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.
