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Specialist Clinical Pharmacist Band 7 £48,788 - £56,747 per annum Plus Distant Islands Allowance of £1,349 per annum 37 hours per week Permanent post This post is in based at the Western Isles Hospital in...


Specialist Clinical Pharmacist


Band 7 £48,788 - £56,747 per annum

Plus Distant Islands Allowance of £1,349 per annum

37 hours per week

Permanent post

 

This post is in based at the Western Isles Hospital in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis and offers an excellent opportunity for an experienced self-motivated pharmacist to help continue exciting work in developing a clinical and patient focussed clinical pharmacy service. You will get the opportunity to make a real difference to the pharmacy service, pursuing value added projects which resonate with you.


The post-holder will be one of three clinical pharmacists working at this hospital and will be responsible for the clinical pharmacy service to a number of wards including consultant ward rounds, patient counselling and multi-disciplinary working with ward-based medical and nursing staff.  There is a technician led service to the wards to provide support with medicines reconciliation and counselling. We’re involved with Scottish universities providing regular placements for undergraduates experiential learning.


There will also be opportunities to get involved in providing a clinical pharmacy service to the local hospice and remotely to the other two hospitals in the archipelago, SACT and multi-disciplinary training sessions. All hospitals in the Health Board are utilising HePMA. Development of managerial and clinical skills will be encouraged through project work and audit.


This is an exciting opportunity to join a friendly, supportive and highly motivated multidisciplinary team including a full range of healthcare professionals. We have close links with the primary care team and work cohesively to put medicines related projects in place across the patient population.


We are offering an opportunity to live and work in our beautiful and rural island community. You can enjoy amazing outdoor and cultural activities such as kayaking, surfing, climbing, hill walking, diving as well as a wealth of traditional crafts and music related pursuits. There is a lively social scene in Stornoway which boasts a theatre, cinema, restaurants and a variety pubs. We are also only a short journey from Glasgow, Inverness and Edinburgh by plane, with twice daily ferry sailing to Ullapool. There are ferry and plane links to the other Outer Hebridean islands.


For further information regarding this post please contact Dr Sue Price, Chief Pharmacist, Tel 01851 708140 or sue.price@nhs.scot.


The successful applicant will be required to register with the PVG Scheme (Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme). This post is not eligible for relocation expenses.


All NHS Western Isles vacancies appear on the NHS Scotland website: apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk, along with a job description.

Tha beàrnan-obrach NHS Eilean Siar uile gu léir a' nochdadh air làrach-lìn NHS na h-Alba https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/ , còmhla ri dealbh-obrach.


If you have any further queries, please contact Tel: 01851 762027.


Closing Date 09/12/2024




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