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The Pharmacotherapy Team are looking to recruit a Clinical Pharmacist to provide a specialist pharmacotherapy service to NHS Borders GP practices ensuring safe, appropriate and cost-effective use of medicines in line with local and national guidelines, including population-wide and individual face-to-face medicine reviews within those practices. This may involve prescribing of medication.
This role will help to manage the delivery of acute and repeat prescriptions, medicines reconciliation, serial prescriptions, undertaking poly-pharmacy reviews and completing quality prescribing work, to support and facilitate the delivery of NHS Borders strategic and operational prescribing priorities within practices and localities.
They will also be involved in providing education, advice and support to the GP practice multidisciplinary team on medicine related issues and provide advice to patients and/or carers regarding medicine related issues and health promotion material, so that patients are treated holistically.
The successful candidates will work Monday to Friday for 37 hrs per week.
Due to legislative changes from 1 April 2025, this post may require a different level of criminal records check done than is currently the case. If the post is assessed as a "regulated role", your appointment will be subject to joining the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. If there is any change to what is currently required, this will be confirmed by either the Hiring Manager or the Recruitment Team. For more details on these changes please visit: .
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