Clinical Pharmacist – Frailty

Job Description

The Role

Are you passionate about delivering compassionate, person-centred care to older adults? University Hospital Wishaw is seeking dedicated and enthusiastic healthcare professionals to join our new dynamic Frailty Unit.

Our Frailty Unit provides specialist multidisciplinary care for older people living with frailty, focusing on early assessment, rehabilitation, and safe discharge planning whilst applying home first principles. We are proud to offer a supportive and innovative environment where staff are empowered to make a real difference in patients’ lives. You will work within a collaborative team, benefit from ongoing professional development, and contribute to service improvement initiatives that enhance patient outcomes.

You will contribute to the care of patients admitted to the Frailty Unit including provision of pharmaceutical care, medication advice and prescribing.

These exciting new roles will contribute to the seven-day Frailty Service to ensure patients receive high quality pharmaceutical care. You will become an integrated member of the consultant-led multidisciplinary team, liaising with primary care, hospital and community colleagues. There is a requirement for you to be an established practicing independent prescriber due to the complexities of patients presenting within frailty as both prescribing and de-prescribing will be an integral part of this role.

Full and part time hours will be considered.

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 652,000 across rural and urban communities 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

• You must possess a Masters Degree in Pharmacy and be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• You must have an independent prescribing qualification or be working towards this.
• Evidence of postgraduate training and professional development in clinical pharmacy practice.
• Relevant post registration experience in clinical pharmacy.
• Be able to participate in pharmacy emergency duty service.
• Ability to work flexibly to cover a rotating schedule – over 7 days – including weekends and public holidays.

Looking to find out more?

If you’re ready to be part of a team that values compassion, innovation, and teamwork, we’d love to hear from you.

Please contact Gail Richardson, Head of Pharmacy at .

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Adnan Saddique, Recruitment Administrator on (Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email).

Interviews are expected to be held week commencing 22nd September however this may be subject to change.

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and discover a supportive environment in our new forward-thinking unit, committed to excellence in patient care. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to develop your skills and advance your career through ongoing training.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service plus 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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NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent – regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.

Candidates should provide original and authentic responses to all questions within the application form. The use of artificial intelligence (AI), automated tools, or other third-party assistance to generate, draft, or significantly modify responses is strongly discouraged. By submitting your application, you confirm that all answers are your own work, reflect your personal knowledge, skills and experience, and have not been solely produced or altered by AI or similar technologies. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in your application being withdrawn from the application process.

Right to Work within the UK

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. Please note that all Band 1 and Band 2 posts are not eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route.