OUR VALUES IN ACTION ● Care and Compassion ● Quality and Teamwork ● Dignity and Respect ● Openness, honesty and responsibility An exciting opportunity exists to join our mental health pharmacy team. The team is based at Borders General Hospital Campus in Melrose but will also provide care to patients in the community setting as part of the psychiatry multidisciplinary team (MDT). Your role within the MDT and pharmacy teams is to lead, develop and provide clinical pharmacy services in these specialist areas as well as supporting the delivery of regional and national programmes. This is an opportunity to bring your ideas and influence to our current clinical pharmacy service and enable us to continue to maximise the potential for patient centred care and support our implementation of Achieving Excellence within the mental health speciality. You will be a highly specialist practitioner with the necessary level of therapeutic knowledge, practical skills and diverse experience to provide high quality patient-centred care. Good team working and interpersonal skills are essential along with the ability to provide professional leadership to take forward service development and ensure the continued success and response of our service to the changing, and challenging, healthcare environment. As part of our clinical team, you will work closely with multidisciplinary staff and also contribute to the developing role of our clinical technicians and pharmacy support staff. You will promote robust medicines governance, patient safety initiatives and future developments such as electronic medicines management We are looking for an experienced pharmacist with extensive clinical knowledge, a post foundation RPS accreditation (or equivalent) and ideally an Independent Prescriber qualification. For enquiries please contact: Kyna Harvey (Lead Pharmacist) on kyna.harvey@borders.scot.nhs.uk Tel: 01896 827702 (Tue-Thur) PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early 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. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.