179694 - Clinical Pharmacist - DM - East Kilbride, United Kingdom - NHS Scotland

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    Permanent
    Description

    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 - part-time hours are available.

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

    Please contact Ruth Waters, Deputy Head of Pharmacy on

    orAnthony Carson, Head of Pharmacy - 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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