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Leadership Opportunities, As a Pharmacy Team Lead, you'll have the chance to provide professional leadership and management to a dedicated primary care pharmacy team.
Positive Working Environment, NHS Scotland is committed to equality, diversity, and fostering a respectful workplace, ensuring that all employees feel valued and can perform at their best.
Professional Development, There are ample training and education opportunities available, allowing you to advance your skills and knowledge in clinical pharmacy.
Contribution to Patient Care, You will play a vital role in improving clinical services and patient outcomes through your work in GP practices and the Pharmacotherapy Service.
Flexible Work Options, There may be opportunities for remote working, which can help with work-life balance, along with a full-time position that offers a degree of schedule flexibility.
Increasing Work-Life Balance, The shift from a 37.5 hour work week to 37 hours enhances work-life balance, making it easier to manage personal commitments without compromising pay.
NHS Scotland is seeking a proactive Pharmacy Team Lead for the Primary Care sector in Caithness, Glasgow. The role involves overseeing the delivery of clinical pharmacy services and managing a primary care pharmacy team. Candidates should have significant leadership, management, or service development experience, along with a Master's degree in Pharmacy, independence as a prescriber, and relevant clinical pharmacy practice experience. Strong communication skills and a commitment to professional development are essential. The position requires travel to various locations and offers opportunities for further training.
The full-time position of 37 hours per week involves adhering to local and national strategies to enhance clinical services, contributing to team development through education, and ensuring patient-centered care. The successful applicant will align with NHS Highland's values of care, respect, and quality teamwork. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply via the Jobtrain platform, avoiding CV submissions, with recruitment support available for any application queries.
The full-time position of 37 hours per week involves adhering to local and national strategies to enhance clinical services, contributing to team development through education, and ensuring patient-centered care. The successful applicant will align with NHS Highland's values of care, respect, and quality teamwork. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply via the Jobtrain platform, avoiding CV submissions, with recruitment support available for any application queries.
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.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive individual, to join us to lead on the delivery of clinical pharmacy input and medicines management, primarily working with GP Practices, delivering the Pharmacotherapy Service of the Scottish GMS Contract. As one of the Pharmacy Team Leads in the Caithness area you will join an established team to provide line management and professional leadership to a primary care pharmacy team so previous experience of leadership, management or service development would be advantageous. You will contribute to advancing clinical services in line with local and national strategy and develop the team through education and training and progressing skill mix.
You will have a Masters degree in Pharmacy or equivalent, be an independent pharmacist prescriber and be on the practising register of the General Pharmaceutical Council. You should have post-registration experience of clinical pharmacy practice, good clinical skills, a relevant postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy and experience of working in primary care pharmacy. You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and good IT skills.
Education
NHS Highland is committed to the professional development of its staff and there will be further training and education opportunities. We are looking for someone who:
This is a full-time permanent post of 37 hours per week, to be worked in accordance with service requirements.
Informal enquiries to: Jill Winchester, Principal Pharmacist Primary Care, email: or mobile .
Recruitment team can be contacted by e-mailing:
Additional Information For Candidates
As a board we strive to ensure the environment is conducive to nurturing a positive culture, supported and delivered through our NHS and Social Care values.
Care and compassion
Dignity and respect
Openness, honesty and responsibility
Quality and teamwork
NHS Scotland is reducing their full time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay. This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff. This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours. However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period for which you would be paid until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Recruiting Board.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive individual, to join us to lead on the delivery of clinical pharmacy input and medicines management, primarily working with GP Practices, delivering the Pharmacotherapy Service of the Scottish GMS Contract. As one of the Pharmacy Team Leads in the Caithness area you will join an established team to provide line management and professional leadership to a primary care pharmacy team so previous experience of leadership, management or service development would be advantageous. You will contribute to advancing clinical services in line with local and national strategy and develop the team through education and training and progressing skill mix.
You will have a Masters degree in Pharmacy or equivalent, be an independent pharmacist prescriber and be on the practising register of the General Pharmaceutical Council. You should have post-registration experience of clinical pharmacy practice, good clinical skills, a relevant postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy and experience of working in primary care pharmacy. You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and good IT skills.
Education
NHS Highland is committed to the professional development of its staff and there will be further training and education opportunities. We are looking for someone who:
- Puts patients and colleagues at the hard of what they do;
- Innovates;
- Has a passion for developing pharmacy services;
- Has a commitment to their own and others’ continuing professional development;
- Has an open, honest and friendly disposition to lead effectively;
This is a full-time permanent post of 37 hours per week, to be worked in accordance with service requirements.
Informal enquiries to: Jill Winchester, Principal Pharmacist Primary Care, email: or mobile .
Recruitment team can be contacted by e-mailing:
Additional Information For Candidates
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As a board we strive to ensure the environment is conducive to nurturing a positive culture, supported and delivered through our NHS and Social Care values.
Care and compassion
Dignity and respect
Openness, honesty and responsibility
Quality and teamwork
NHS Scotland is reducing their full time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay. This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff. This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours. However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period for which you would be paid until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Recruiting Board.
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