Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Frailty (LW)

Job Description

Are you ready to shape the future of clinical pharmacy in one of Scotland’s most rapidly developing specialties?

NHS Fife is offering an exciting opportunity for an innovative and motivated pharmacist to join our Frailty & Community Health Pharmacy Service. This is a unique chance to help influence service redesign, and directly improve outcomes for patients across Fife.

As a Senior Clinical Pharmacist, you will become a key member of a multidisciplinary team driving high-quality, patient-centred care. You will develop specialist expertise and work with patients receiving complex polypharmacy regimens, supporting safe prescribing, treatment optimisation, and monitoring. An Independent Prescribing qualification is highly desirable.

This post sits within the Frailty and Community Health team, whose portfolio includes acute care of the elderly, community hospitals, hospital at home and hospice. You will work closely with the Lead Clinical Pharmacist and play a critical role in the development of the frailty service. You will communicate highly complex clinical information with clarity and compassion, supporting joint decision-making with patients, consultants, specialist nurses and the wider MDT.

You will demonstrate strong, collaborative leadership, contributing to clinical governance, quality improvement, education, and medicines optimisation at service and organisational level. You will be supported by the Lead Clinical Pharmacist -Frailty & Community Health, the wider Senior Pharmacy Team, and a committed Frailty service progressing through a transformation programme. This role offers significant scope to shape clinical practice, lead service innovation, and contribute to the future strategic development of pharmacy services in NHS Fife.

The NHS Fife Pharmacy Service is undergoing an ambitious programme of transformation and integration. It serves a population of approximately 380,000 people, and is provided by an integrated team of around 300 Pharmacy staff, including Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Support Workers, Nurses, and Administrators. The team works across Acute and Community hospital sites, General Practices, Mental Health services, and a range of specialist teams. Partnership working is at the core of our values, and we work closely with other members of the multi disciplinary team, including our Community Pharmacy colleagues, to deliver the highest quality care for everyone in Fife.

There are opportunities to become involved in a range of projects across the integrated Pharmacy Directorate as well as shaping the future vision for the service.

A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme prior to appointment.

To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigration Service.

As part of the pre employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website.

It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.

We offer flexible working and family friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long term conditions or who are neuro divergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

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.