Pharmacist
NHS Lothian Pharmacy & Medicines Service
Royal Edinburgh Hospital (Mental Health Services)
Band 6 | 1.0wte | Fixed Term/Secondment (12 months) | 37 Hours
£41,608 - £50,702
(including on call and public holiday commitments)
Are you enthusiastic, motivated and keen to develop your pharmacy career? Come and join our friendly, diverse, supportive and dynamic NHS Lothian team as a Band 6 pharmacist.
Our pharmacy service is rapidly developing and it’s an exciting time to join our team. We are recruiting for a Band 6 pharmacist at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience in a specialist mental health environment, with rotations across acute adult mental health, older people’s mental health, forensic mental health and substance misuse services.
About the role
1. Our Band 6 training programmes are aligned with the new NHS Education for Scotland (NES) post-registration foundation programme and provide a structured and supportive environment for you to develop your clinical and non-clinical skills.
2. You’ll deliver increasingly complex person-centred care across a range of settings, develop your prescribing capabilities, integrate with our pharmacy and wider multiprofessional teams, and for posts that include hospital rotations, work within our core department (technical) areas. You’ll be supported by an educational supervisor throughout your training along with our experienced pharmacy teams. You’ll find more details about our training bases in the ‘Band 6 training base information’ document.
3. Our Band 6 training programmes support your professional growth, build your networks, and ensure we have well-rounded pharmacists with the mindset and skills to continually improve patient care and service delivery. Please see site specific information below for more information.
4. The NES post-registration foundation programme includes entry onto an independent prescribing course delivered by one of the universities in Scotland. For more information
About You:
We’re looking for someone with:
5. A Masters Degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent) and be on the practising register of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
6. You should have a relevant postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or equivalent experience
7. You will have excellent communication, organisational and IT skills alongside a commitment to learning and development.