Overview
A career defining role in a place you’ll love to live and work. NHS Fife is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for 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.
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.
Professional growth opportunities
* 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 are enthusiastic, clinically capable, and keen to develop, we’ll provide full training.
Role overview
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 and working conditions
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.
With excellent transport links, affordable living, and a high quality of life, Fife really does offer the best of both worlds.
Hours: Full time (37 hours per week) or part time (minimum 28 hours). This is a 12‑month fixed‑term post.
Responsibilities
* 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.
Qualifications and requirements
* Member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme prior to appointment.
* Right to work in the United Kingdom; you must have an appropriate right to work or be eligible for sponsorship.
* Clinical competence in pharmacy practice; primary care experience is beneficial but not essential.
* Willingness to undertake independent prescribing training if not already qualified.
* Strong communication, teamwork, and organisational skills.
Benefits and support
We offer flexible working and family‑friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates and those 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. NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
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