clinical pharmacist West Lothian
Job description
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 Pharmacy & Medicines Service
Band 6 Pharmacists – hospital and primary care
Permanent, 37.5 Hours per week
Salary: £37,831 - £46,100
Join our team of Band 6s
Are you enthusiastic, motivated and keen to develop your pharmacy career? Come and join our friendly, diverse, supportive and dynamic NHS Lothian team as a Band 6 pharmacist.
Our pharmacy service is rapidly developing and it’s an exciting time to join our team. We are recruiting Band 6 pharmacists across the following areas:
- Primary care
- Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh
- Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (includes the Royal Hospital for Children & Young People, Edinburgh)
- St John's Hospital, Livingston
- Western General Hospital, Edinburgh (includes Edinburgh Cancer Centre)
We recognise that one size doesn’t fit all and offer a range of posts to accommodate different preferences. Our posts include the following base areas where you will spend most of your time:
- Hospital
- Mental health
- Primary care
- Integrated (hospital and primary care)
Our Band 6 training programmes are aligned with the new NHS Education for Scotland (NES) post-registration foundation programme and provide a structured and supportive environment for you to develop your clinical and non-clinical skills. You’ll deliver increasingly complex person-centred care across a range of settings, develop your prescribing capabilities, integrate with our pharmacy and wider multiprofessional teams, and for posts that include hospital rotations, work within our core department (technical) areas. You’ll be supported by an educational supervisor throughout your training along with our experienced pharmacy teams. You’ll find more details about our training bases in the ‘Band 6 training base information’ document.
Our Band 6 training programmes support your professional growth, build your networks, and ensure we have well-rounded pharmacists with the mindset and skills to continually improve patient care and service delivery. Please see site specific information below for more information.
The NES post-registration foundation programme includes entry onto an independent prescribing course delivered by one of the universities in Scotland. For more information click here
About NHS 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. We have electronic prescribing in place across most wards and embrace innovation and development.
The vision for our 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 can flourish, develop and make best use of their skills.
Colleagues across the organisation have developed the ‘NHS Lothian Values’ and you should demonstrate your personal values are aligned.
Next steps
This is a rolling advert for Band 6 Pharmacist recruitment opportunities across all sites listed above. Please indicate your preferred training base(s) within your application; if you are interested in posts on multiple sites / areas of practice please rank these clearly in your order of preference. Successful candidates will be matched against available vacancies considering service need, individual preference, skills and development needs. Although posts will be based in one of our hospital pharmacy departments or primary care health and social care partnerships, there will be a requirement to work at any site to meet the needs of the service.
To apply you should be a pharmacist registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council but applications are also welcome from trainee pharmacists (in any sector) due to qualify in July 2023.
NHS Lothian offers an opportunity to explore flexible working which encompasses a range of options, which allow staff more flexibility in shaping their own working pattern while delivering the needs of the service across our teams. If you wish to be considered for, flexible working opportunities please state your preferred option in your application.
For further information please contact Agata Paczek via e-mail on
