Primary Care Pharmacist

About The Organisation

NHS Orkney is committed to delivering excellent care to our 22,000 residents. Whether you’re new to the NHS or bringing experience from elsewhere, your skills will make a real difference.

NHS Orkney is committed to delivering excellent care to our 22,000 residents. Whether you’re new to the NHS or bringing experience from elsewhere, your skills will make a real difference. Our modern healthcare facility, The Balfour, brings together inpatient care, emergency services, outpatient clinics, diagnostics, GP practices and the Scottish Ambulance Service. We’re also investing in services across our outer isles, ensuring high-quality care reaches every corner of Orkney.

We are guided by our core values that shape everything we do – Open and honest, Respect and Kindness – from how we care for our patients to how we support each other as colleagues.

With over 70 islands – 20 of them inhabited – Orkney offers a unique blend of natural beauty, close-knit community and an opportunity for adventure. From dramatic coastlines and rare wildlife to rich cultural traditions and active lifestyles, it’s a place where compassion thrives and every day brings something new. Regularly named one of the UK’s best places to live, Orkney offers a lifestyle that’s both fulfilling and inspiring.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated pharmacist to join NHS Orkney's Primary Care Pharmacy Team and help deliver an innovative new Polypharmacy and Medicines Reablement Service across Orkney. This exciting new post has been created through transformational funding to improve outcomes for people with frailty, multimorbidity and complex medicines needs. Working across GP practices, care homes, community settings and patients' own homes, the successful candidate will undertake structured polypharmacy reviews, medicines reconciliation and medicines optimisation activities aimed at reducing medicines‑related harm and supporting people to remain independent for longer.

The post holder will work closely with GP practices, community pharmacies, hospital teams, care home and care at home services, patients, carers and unpaid carers to provide person‑centred pharmaceutical care across mainland Orkney and the outer isles. A flexible approach, making effective use of remote consultations, multidisciplinary working and planned locality visits, will be key to delivering this service. You will join a friendly, supportive and experienced pharmacy team and be supported by our established Primary Care Pharmacy Service.

Team working is central to how we deliver care, and you will have opportunities to contribute to service development, quality improvement and innovative models of care across NHS Orkney. The role offers experience across the four pillars of advanced pharmacy practice: clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research, and we are committed to supporting the successful candidate in their professional development, including progression through the Royal Pharmaceutical Society credentialing programme.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to patient care while helping shape a new service expected to deliver significant benefits for patients and the wider health and care system. The programme aims to support over 800 polypharmacy reviews annually and improve access to pharmaceutical care for people living in our remote and island communities.

The successful candidate must be a registered pharmacist with excellent clinical, communication and interpersonal skills. Experience in primary care, community pharmacy or hospital pharmacy is welcomed. An Independent Prescribing qualification is essential to the role.

This post offers a unique working environment with a friendly and enthusiastic team in a stunning remote and rural setting, where you can make a visible difference to the health and wellbeing of the Orkney population.

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