201950 - Clinical Pharmacist

The Role

University Hospital Wishaw is recruiting two band 7 pharmacist posts to enhance the clinical team providing services within Medicine / acute medical receiving.  The post holders will become an integrated member of the consultant-led multidisciplinary team, attending ward rounds, contributing to prescribing decisions and providing direct patient care to patients admitted to acute and downstream medicine.  Specialities include cardiology, respiratory, endocrine and gastroenterology.  Working alongside the technical team who provide support with drug history taking, patient education and medication supply issues you will fully utilise your clinical reasoning and judgement / prescribing skills, possess excellent communication skills and be involved in teaching tutoring and mentoring junior staff and students.   

There will be a focus on ensuring safe, effective and person-centred use of medicines at the interface during and throughout admission as well as undertaking quality improvement initiatives to improve practice.

Experience working within the acute hospital setting is required and you will be supported to undertake and qualify as a pharmacist independent prescriber if not already practising at this level.

It is an exciting time in NHS Lanarkshire within expanding roles for the pharmacy team within various clinical roles including the outpatient setting. Applications are welcomed from suitably qualified candidates with a passion for delivering high quality pharmaceutical care and drive to assist in developments within acute Medicine. 

NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

What we'll need you to bring 

Masters of Pharmacy Degree

Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Continuing Professional Development as detailed by the General Pharmaceutical Council (mandatory requirement)

Relevant post registration experience in hospital pharmacy

Postgraduate training and professional development in clinical pharmacy practice e.g. Stage II Scottish Vocational Training / 1st year clinical diploma

Demonstrable experience in providing a clinical pharmacy service to a defined patient group. 

Experience in patient information/education

Experience in supervising staff

Ability to effectively monitor patients therapeutic regimens in order to ensure effectiveness and reduce toxicity

Clinical pharmacy / care planning

Good verbal and written communication skills

Self motivation

Ability to work effectively as part of a team, in a pharmacy and multi-disciplinary environment

Proven project / practice research/ audit skills

Participation in weekend and public holiday working

Participation in pharmacy emergency duty service (if appropriate)

Willingness to contribute to the general working of the pharmacy department. 

It would be great if you also have

 Ability to prioritise and organise workload

Contract type - Post One

Permanent

Full time 

37 hours

Contract type - Post Two

Fixed Term or Secondment until 31/07/2026

Full time 

37 hours

Please note this is a fixed term post until 31/07/2026. Where a post only has temporary funding and an existing member of NHS Lanarkshire staff wishes to apply, this will be treated as a secondment. The employee MUST already have written agreement from their line manager to be released on a secondment before applying for the post.  

Location and Working Pattern

This role will be based in Pharmacy within University Hospital Wishaw.

The working pattern for this role Mon-Fri; 9:00-5:00.

Looking to find out more?

If youre looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Gail Richardson, Head of Pharmacy on gail.richardson@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact David Murray, Recruitment Administrator on david.murray3@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

(Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshires benefits include:

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service

• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays

• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)

• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service

• Occupational health services

• Employee counselling services

• Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If youre looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.