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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.
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.
NHS Lothian has 4 pharmacy aseptic units located across the acute hospital sites in Lothian based within Edinburgh Cancer Centre, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, St John’s Hospital and Western General Hospital. The aseptic dispensing units (ADU) across Lothian operates under a Section 10 exemption of the Medicines Act to prepare and supply cytotoxic chemotherapy, total parenteral nutrition and other high risk parenteral medicines.
This is a new post developed to take forward the portfolio of work for the strategic development and future delivery of all aseptic pharmacy services across NHS Lothian to meet the needs of patients and clinical teams; and to optimise the availability of aseptically manufactured products across the aseptic facilities and infrastructure. The postholder will work across all pharmacy aseptic units but will have an office base within the Western General Hospital Pharmacy department where 75% of the pharmacy aseptically prepared products in Lothian are delivered to meet patients need.
This is an exciting time to join our innovative, enthusiastic team who are committed to service modernisation and developing the role of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy support staff as part of the NHS Lothian Pharmacy & Medicines Strategic priorities and action plan. For those candidates who are independent prescribers there is also the opportunity to undertake a sessional clinical commitment to maintain this competency in an agreed clinical setting. As part of the pharmacy senior management group this post will be key to strategic planning and development of pharmacy aseptic services within NHS Lothian.
Candidates must have a Master of Pharmacy Degree or equivalent, must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), with a postgraduate degree in Clinical Pharmacy or, Pharmaceutical Technology and Quality Assurance or equivalent. We invite experienced, highly motivated pharmacists with a strong leadership track record; and the required knowledge/ experience of aseptic national standards, audit, quality systems, legislation and policy interpretation for aseptic units to apply for 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 on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions please contact
Jin Hah on 0131 537 1206 or via email at jinwerne.hah@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
or
Melinda Cuthbert on 0791 888 9003 or via email at melinda.cuthbert@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk