179694 - Clinical Pharmacist - DM

4 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom NHS Scotland Full time

University Hospital Hairmyres

The Role

Would you like to be involved in the Pharmacy Team within NHS Lanarkshire?

University Hospital Hairmyres has an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to join the team providing services to patients. You will work within the multidisciplinary clinical teams attending daily ward/board rounds, and providing pharmaceutical advice and support to patients and their carers. This role will allow you to develop your prescribing and clinical skills within specific patient groups, concentrating on building key relationships with the multidisciplinary team, medicines governance, quality improvement, implementing guidance to ensure safe prescribing practices within these clinical areas. You will be required to deputise for the highly specialist pharmacists when needed and provide professional cover for operational services. Provision of education and training is critical to the role including pharmacy staff, experiential learning (EL students), foundation year trainees, medical and nursing teams. There will be opportunity to develop tutoring and mentoring skills in the role also.

It is essential that you have a Masters of Pharmacy Degree and are a member of the General Pharmaceutical Council. Experience in providing a clinical service to a specific patient group is essential and experience of delivering this in the acute setting is desirable. You will have evidence of undertaking suitable post-registration training and should be either an intendent prescriber, undertaking the IP course or deemed as eligible to commence the IP course. You will require good clinical knowledge and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

What we'll need you to bring 

Masters of Pharmacy Degree

Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Continuing Professional Development as detailed by the General Pharmaceutical Council (mandatory requirement)

Postgraduate training and professional development in clinical pharmacy practice

Demonstrable experience in providing a clinical pharmacy service to a defined patient group. 

Experience in patient information/education

Experience in supervising staff

Ability to effectively monitor patients therapeutic regimens in order to ensure effectiveness and reduce toxicity

Clinical pharmacy / care planning

Good verbal and written communication skills

Self motivation

Ability to work effectively as part of a team, in a pharmacy and multi-disciplinary environment

Proven project / practice research/ audit skills

Participation in weekend and public holiday working

Participation in pharmacy emergency duty service (if appropriate)

Willingness to contribute to the general working of the pharmacy department.

Contract type

Permanent

Full time

37 hours

Location and Working Pattern

This role will be based in Pharmacy within University Hospital Hairmyres

The working pattern for this role is Mon-Fri: 08:50-17:00

Looking to find out more?

If youre looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you



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