SM) Specialist Pharmacist

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NHS Lothian serves a population of approximately 1 million people, employs 35,000 people and is fundamentally focussed on improving the health and wellbeing of the population.

The NHS Lothian Primary Care Pharmacy and Medicines Service is undergoing an ambitious programme of transformation and integration. Pharmaceutical care is provided by a team of around 100 pharmacy staff, including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and administrators, working across General Practices covering the whole of Edinburgh.

Partnership working is at the core of our values, and we work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, including our Community Pharmacy colleagues, to deliver the highest quality care for everyone in Lothian.

Do you want to be at the forefront of transforming the delivery of pharmaceutical care? Do you want to work in an environment that values staff and supports their learning, growth and wellbeing? Do you want to work with a dynamic team who have the ambition to be "the best Pharmacy service in Scotland"?

This post will help in supporting delivery of additional pharmacist-led polypharmacy reviews annually across care homes and transitions of care in the City of Edinburgh. Significant indirect savings are expected through reduced hospital admissions, care package requirements, and medicines waste.

Polypharmacy, defined as the concurrent use of five or more medicines, is often appropriate for people with multiple long-term conditions. However, it can increase the risk of adverse drug interactions, complications, and avoidable harm. Inappropriate polypharmacy also places a substantial financial burden on the health service when medicines with little or no clinical benefit continue to be prescribed long term. This challenge is increasing alongside Edinburgh's ageing population.

In order to do achieve this aim you will work within Primary Care, supporting pharmacy teams in GP practices to increase capacity for polypharmacy reviews, while also undertaking reviews for patients on the reablement team caseload.

You are a dynamic, highly motivated and enthusiastic, GPhC registered pharmacist.

You may have a community or hospital pharmacy background or already be working within a GP Practice as a pharmacist. Candidates will have gained postgraduate experience working in a patient focused clinical environment, using their knowledge and skills to improve patient care and promote optimal outcomes from medicines and have progressed through the post registration foundation training (PRFT) to the stage of being signed off as ready to prescribe.

Candidates must have a Master of Pharmacy Degree or equivalent, be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), and should have completed or have equivalent competence mapped to the Post-registration…