The Role
NHS Lanarkshire are looking to recruit a highly motivated clinical pharmacist to work in split post within the HEPMA Pharmacy Team and Acute Clinical Pharmacy Team at University Hospital Hairmyres. The position will help to ensure the ambitions of the NHS Lanarkshire Five Year Digital Plan. This includes providing an essential link to clinical teams working on the acute sites to ensure realisation of HEPMA benefits including clinical governance, safety of medicines and prescribing. You will work with other members of the HEPMA team to provide training, ongoing system maintenance, analysis of HEPMA data and complete the roll out to remaining specialist areas including paediatrics and outpatients. The HEPMA team supports clinicians in all three Lanarkshire acute hospitals (University Hospitals Wishaw, Monklands and Hairmyres) and the off-site beds in NHS Lanarkshire.
The post holder will work within ward areas providing specialist advice to medical staff and the multidisciplinary teams to improve and develop the pharmaceutical services. The post holder will be an independent prescriber (or working towards) and will be a mentor/supervisor for junior pharmacists and students undertaking placements.
Participation in the HEPMA on call rota is required as well as a commitment to weekend and public holiday working within University Hospital Hairmyres.
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 655,000 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
1. Masters of Pharmacy Degree
2. Registered member of General Pharmaceutical Council
3. Independent prescribing qualification or must work towards
4. Evidence of postgraduate training and professional development in clinical pharmacy practice e.g. Post Registration Foundation Framework/ 1st year clinical diploma
5. Relevant post registration experience in clinical pharmacy.
6. Ability to effectively monitor patients’ therapeutic regimens in order to ensure effectiveness and reduce toxicity
7. Ability to work effectively as part of a team, in a pharmacy and multi-disciplinary environment.
8. Commitment to revalidation as per directions of General Pharmaceutical Council
9. Good verbal and written communication skills
10. Self-motivation
It would be great if you also have
11. Demonstrable experience in providing a clinical pharmacy service to a defined patient group
12. Experience in patient information/education
13. Experience in supervising staff
14. Clinical pharmacy / care planning
15. Proven project/practice research/ audit skills
Contract type
16. Permanent
17. Full time
18. 37 hours
Location and Working Pattern
This role will be based in Pharmacy within University Hospital Hairmyres.
The weekly working pattern for this role will be rotational Monday to Friday - Participation in the HEPMA on call rota is required as well as a commitment to weekend and public holiday working within University Hospital Hairmyres.
Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.
Looking to find out more?
If you’re looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you!
Enquiries regarding the HEPMA elements of the post will be welcomed by:
Enquiries regarding University Hospital Hairmyres Clinical Pharmacy Services will be welcomed by:
Why NHS Lanarkshire?
Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.
Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:
19. A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
20. A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
21. Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the )
22. Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
23. Occupational health services
24. Employee counselling services
25. 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 .