Highly Specialist Clinical Pharmacist

Please note this is a Full Time, Fixed Term/Secondment Post for 1 year / Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm (37.5 hrs)

We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic Senior Pharmacist to join our Pharmacy Team , based at University Hospital Monklands .

The successful candidate will lead clinical pharmacy services to Acute Medicine, consistent with NHS Lanarkshire’s core values of respect, fairness, quality and working together. Through collaboration with others, they will be expected to develop and deliver a vision for pharmaceutical services that will be required to adapt to an ever changing healthcare environment; necessitating experience in service development and managing projects. We are looking for a candidate who will motivate and inspire others both within pharmacy and the wider hospital, act as a role model and provide a consistently high quality pharmaceutical service. It is an exciting time at University Hospital Monklands with future plans for the replacement of the current hospital site.

Applications are welcomed from suitably qualified candidates with a passion for improving pharmaceutical care and developing innovative services.

Please note the successful candidate must:

• Have Masters Degree in Pharmacy
• Be registered to practice with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Knowledge, training and / or / experience required to do the job:

• Continuing Professional Development as detailed by the General Pharmaceutical Council (mandatory requirement)
• Hospital Pharmacy experience
• Experience working within a clinical or technical speciality
• Ability to monitor patient therapeutic regimens to ensure effectiveness and reduce toxicity
• Experience in delivering training and education at post-graduate level
• Demonstrable use of clinical audit to improve practice.
• Demonstrate advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement.
• Excellent numeracy, verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work to deadlines and manage resources
• Participation in weekend and public holiday working
• Participation in pharmacy emergency duty service (if appropriate)
• Post graduate degree / diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or Management

Informal enquiries regarding the post will be welcomed by Eimear Gordonon 01698 752298or at Eimear.Gordon@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

For queries regarding the application form or recruitment process only, please contactDevon.Westwater@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.ukstating the job title and reference number in the subject. All job related queries must be directed to the informal contact noted above.

Please note - we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the advert once sufficient applications are received. Please complete and submit your application early.

In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit *

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