Overview
A career defining role in a place you’ll love to live and work. NHS Fife is delighted to offer a motivated pharmacist to join our vibrant and rapidly developing Primary Care Pharmacy Team in North East Fife.
This is a fantastic chance to become part of a friendly, forward thinking service that truly values innovation, collaboration, and high quality, person centred care. As a Practice Pharmacist, you’ll work closely with our GP practices to deliver high impact pharmaceutical care, including polypharmacy reviews, medicines reconciliation, acute and repeat prescribing support, and independent prescribing activity. With prescribing fully embedded across the service, you’ll have the opportunity to utilise your clinical skills every day.
Why join us?
A supportive, integrated, award winning pharmacy service. You’ll be warmly welcomed into a well established multidisciplinary team that includes Senior Practice Pharmacists, Practice Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Medicines Management Support Workers. We believe in helping our staff thrive — through strong leadership, mentorship, and meaningful development opportunities.
Real scope for professional growth
Whether you're already working in primary care or looking to transition from hospital or community pharmacy, we will support you every step of the way.
You’ll have access to:
* Regular clinical development sessions
* Peer support and mentorship
* Opportunities for quality improvement and innovation
* A wide range of CPD and multidisciplinary education events
Primary care experience is beneficial but not essential — if you're enthusiastic, clinically capable, and keen to develop, we’ll provide full training.
A role that makes a real difference
You’ll be embedded within local practices, working as a key member of the multidisciplinary team to ensure patients across North East Fife receive safe, effective, and evidence based care. Your work will help optimise medicines use, improve outcomes, reduce harm, and support sustainable prescribing.
Location
North East Fife includes 11 diverse and welcoming practices — the proportion you would cover will be tailored to your working hours. Primarily based in the picturesque East Neuk, you’ll be working in one of Scotland’s most scenic and accessible regions. Hybrid working will be considered too. With excellent transport links, affordable living, and a high quality of life, Fife really does offer the best of both worlds.
You will:
* Provide high quality pharmaceutical care to patients in GP practices and community settings
* Deliver structured medication reviews, polypharmacy reviews and undertake independent prescribing
* Offer specialist medicines advice to clinicians and patients
* Support safe, effective and cost effective prescribing
* Participate in quality improvement, audits, guidelines and service development
* Work collaboratively across the primary care and community pharmacy interface
Full time hours are available (36h), with part time options considered.
Existing permanent employees must first discuss this opportunity with their substantive line manager. The secondment policy can be found at Hub • Blink (joinblink.com). If you do not have approval for a secondment from your current line manager, you will not be able to progress your application for a fixed term post. External applicants, with continuous NHS Service, must also have in place a secondment agreement, from their existing board to apply for this post.
NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. All applicants are required to confirm their right to work in the UK in their application. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK), European Community (EC) or European Economic Area National please state the visa category under which you are legally entitled to work in the UK on your application form and the expiry date of your leave to remain in the UK. For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licensed Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’.
We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity within its 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.
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