Practice Pharmacist; R2; LW

Overview

A career defining role in a place you’ll love to live and work. NHS Fife is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a motivated pharmacist to join our vibrant and rapidly developing Primary Care Pharmacy Team in North East Fife. This is a fantastic chance to become part of a friendly, forward thinking service that truly values innovation, collaboration, and high quality, person centred care.

As a Practice Pharmacist, you’ll work closely with our GP practices to deliver high impact pharmaceutical care, including polypharmacy reviews, medicines reconciliation, acute and repeat prescribing support, and independent prescribing activity. With prescribing fully embedded across the service, you’ll have the opportunity to utilise your clinical skills every day.

A supportive, integrated, award winning pharmacy service

You’ll be warmly welcomed into a well established multidisciplinary team that includes Senior Practice Pharmacists, Practice Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Medicines Management Support Workers. We believe in helping our staff thrive through strong leadership, mentorship, and meaningful development opportunities.

Real scope for professional growth

Whether You're Already Working In Primary Care Or Looking To Transition From Hospital Or Community Pharmacy, We Will Support You Every Step Of The Way. You’ll Have Access To

• Regular clinical development sessions
• Peer support and mentorship
• Opportunities for quality improvement and innovation
• A wide range of CPD and multidisciplinary education events

Primary care experience is beneficial but not essential if you're enthusiastic, clinically capable, and keen to develop, we’ll provide full training.

• You’ll be embedded within local practices, working as a key member of the multidisciplinary team to ensure patients across North East Fife receive safe, effective, and evidence based care. Your work will help optimise medicines use, improve outcomes, reduce harm, and support sustainable prescribing.
• Provide high quality pharmaceutical care to patients in GP practices and community settings
• Deliver structured medication reviews, polypharmacy reviews and undertake independent prescribing
• Offer specialist medicines advice to clinicians and patients
• Support safe, effective and cost effective prescribing
• Participate in quality improvement, audits, guidelines and service development
• Work collaboratively across the primary care and community pharmacy interface

Full time hours are available (37h), with part time options considered.

We’d love to tell you more or you can even arrange to spend time with the team to see the role in action. For informal enquiries, please contact Calum Murray, Lead Clinical Pharmacist Primary Care
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As from 1/4/26, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will be reducing from 37 to 36 hours per week. Part time hours will be reduced pro-rata. However, there will be a corresponding increase in the hourly rate so that pay will not be affected.

• A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
• To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigration Service.
• As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the  website here.
• For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’.
  
  Further information on these criteria can be foundhere.
• It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.

We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices. 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.