NHS Scotland
Foundation/Practice Pharmacist (LW)
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Band 7 Practice Pharmacist Position
The post is offered as a Band 7 Practice Pharmacist position, with the option of a Band 6 Foundation Pharmacist role for suitable candidates.
About the Role
A career defining role in a place you’ll love to live and work.
NHS Fife is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for motivated pharmacists to join our vibrant and rapidly developing Primary Care Pharmacy Team in 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.
Responsibilities
As a Foundation (band 6) or Practice (band 7) 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, when qualified. With prescribing fully embedded across the service, you’ll have the opportunity to utilise your clinical skills every day.
Why Join Us?
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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.
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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.
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A role that makes a real difference
You’ll be embedded within local practices, working as a key member of the multidisciplinary team to ensure patients across Fife receive safe, effective, and evidence based care. Your work will help optimise medicines use, improve outcomes, reduce harm, and support sustainable prescribing.
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A beautiful place to build a career
We have positions available in the South West, North East, Kirkcaldy and Lochgelly/Cowdenbeath clusters. We will ask for preferred clusters at interview
With excellent transport links, affordable living, and a high quality of life, Fife really does offer the best of both worlds.
Key Tasks
- 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
Working Hours
Full time hours are available (36h), with part time options considered.
Informal Enquiries
- Calum Murray, Lead Clinical Pharmacist Primary Care
- Teresa Panton, Lead Clinical Pharmacist Primary Care
Requirements
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 Immigrations Service.
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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 GOV.UK website.
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 sponsoredBEFORE submitting your application form.
Benefits
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.
Please note the salary is pro rata for part time hours.
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Equality and Diversity
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.
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