185533 - Principal Pharmacist - Clinical Services - DM - Airdrie, United Kingdom - NHS Scotland

Description

The Role

University Hospital Monklands has an exciting two-year Secondment or fixed term opportunity for a dynamic senior pharmacist to join our pharmacy team as the Principal Pharmacist for Clinical Services. The successful candidate will provide managerial and professional leadership to clinical pharmacy team and will also deputise for the Head of Pharmacy in their absence. An advanced level of clinical knowledge, reasoning and judgement and an ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff and the multidisciplinary team is required.

Applications are welcomed from suitably qualified candidates with a passion for improving pharmaceutical care and developing those that deliver it. For informal enquiries, please contact Jonathan Cavan, Head of Pharmacy at University Hospital Monklands, on or Sarah Connelly, current Principal Pharmacist for Clinical Services on

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

Member General Pharmaceutical Council

Demonstrable evidence of clinical knowledge / service provision and development.

Post Graduate degree/diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or Management.

Evidence of Continuing Professional Development / management training.

Minimum 8 years post registration clinical pharmacy experience.

Demonstrable use of clinical audit to improve practice.

Can delegate authority appropriately.

The ability to evaluate service quality.

Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement.

Identifies own training needs.

Maintains a broad level of pharmacy practice.

Evidence of improvement of quality of service.

Demonstrable commitment to CPD.

Experience in patient information/education.

Experience in staff management.

Identifies a vision for the delivery of pharmaceutical services to required patient population.

Demonstrable commitment to CPD.

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

Demonstrable expert clinical knowledge and skills.

Demonstrable advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement.

Ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff and the multidisciplinary team.

Ability to identify and manage risks

Ability to identify and prioritise clinical work.

Understanding of national and local priorities.

Ability to work autonomously.

Ability to evaluate own work and that of others.

Self-motivation.

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

Proven project / practice research / audit skills.

Ability to integrate research into practice.

Good verbal and written communication skills.

Ensures that the training needs of all staff are identified and met.

Participation in pharmacy emergency duty rota.

Willingness to work on Public holidays, if required.

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

Car driver & owner.

Contract type

Fixed Term or Secondment for 2 years

Full time

37 hours

Please note this is a fixed term post for two years. Where a post only has temporary funding and an existing member of NHS Lanarkshire staff wishes to apply, this will be treated as a Secondment. The employee MUST already have written agreement from their line manager to be released on a Secondment before applying for the post.

Location and Working Pattern

This role will be based in University Hospital Monklands

The working pattern for this role Mon-Fri; 9:00-5:00

Looking to find out more?

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

Please contact Jonathan Cavan, Head of Pharmacy at University Hospital Monklands, on or Sarah Connelly, current Principal Pharmacist for Clinical Services on

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact David Murray, Recruitment Administrator on

(Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire's benefits include:

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• Occupational health services
• Employee Counselling services
• Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you're looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

Additional Information for Applicants

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In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

We anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the advert once sufficient applications are received. Please complete and submit your application early.

*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children's setting/secure unit.

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK.

We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. UK Visas & Immigration rules are available at

Prospective applicants are encouraged to check eligibility in advance of applying for vacancies in NHS Lanarkshire.

From 1 April 2024, the working week for NHS Agenda for Change workers in Scotland will be reduced. Full-time hours will reduce from 37.5 to 37 hours (pro rata for part-time staff) without loss of earnings.

NHS Lanarkshire will implement this change but it may not be possible to fully transition from 1 April and there may therefore be some areas of the organisation where implementation may take longer. If the department is currently unable to safely accommodate the reduced hours from 1st April, you may be required to work 37.5 hours per week until the department can meet the requirements without impacting patient safety - you will, of course, be remunerated accordingly. NHS Lanarkshire is committed to full implementation of the 37 hour working week across all areas as soon as it is safe to do so.

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