186919 Pharmacy Support Worker inEdinburgh inEdinburgh PUBLISHED 13 JUN 2024

The vision for the Pharmacy & Medicines service is to deliver clinically led, person-centred services to ensure patients across Lothian get the best from their medicines and pharmacy services.
Please note: As this post is part-time the salary will be pro-rata.

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.

**Please note we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage**

This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.

NHS LOTHIAN PHARMACY & MEDICINES SERVICE

Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP)

PHARMACY SUPPORT WORKER Primary care

2x AFC Band 3 Pharmacy Support Worker (1x North West (Care Home) and 1x South East (General Practice) Edinburgh HSCPs)

(Full and Part Time Opportunities)

Salary Scale: £25,468 - £27,468

NHS Lothian covers Edinburgh city, East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian. We are the second largest health system in NHS Scotland and one of only four teaching Boards. We have strategic partnerships with local Universities, Local Authorities and our four Integration Joint Boards. We serve a population of 900,000, providing a range of primary, community based and acute hospital services. We also provide regional and national services across a range of clinical specialties.

The vision for the Pharmacy & Medicines service is to deliver clinically led, person-centred services to ensure patients across Lothian get the best from their medicines and pharmacy services. We are focussed on creating an environment where each person in the team has the opportunity to develop, flourish and make best use of their skills and works closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to deliver high quality care.

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”?

These are new roles within Primary Care and EHSCPs are looking for dynamic, highly motivated and enthusiastic pharmacy support workers, to take forward key prescribing initiatives within NHS Lothian and transform the delivery of pharmaceutical care ensuring the right medicine reaches the right patient at the right time. Working with the Primary Care Pharmacy team, GPs, Care Home staff and other healthcare professionals, this job will provide an exciting and challenging opportunity to optimise prescribing and medicines management in GP practices and Care Homes across Edinburgh.

Key aspects of this role will involve providing pharmaceutical care to individual patients whenever they present by meeting their particular needs while maximizing effectiveness and economic use of resources. The candidate will be expected to assist with the review of Care Home medication ordering between Care Home, General Practice and Community Pharmacy, ensure storage conditions of medicines within Care Homes are adequate, promote cost effective use/ordering of medicines within Care Homes and General Practice to reduce medicine waste and assist with medication and prescription enquires and communicate locality pharmacy team work plans.

Applications will be considered from those interested in job-sharing opportunities and those seeing part-time employment.


For Informal Enquiries, Please Contact The Following


North Edinburgh: Laura McLean, Lead Primary Care Pharmacy Technician

South Edinburgh: Barbara Irvine, Lead Primary Care Pharmacy Technician

Interviews with be held on Microsoft Teams
Please note: As this post is part-time the salary will be pro-rata.

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.

**Please note we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage**

This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.

NHS LOTHIAN PHARMACY & MEDICINES SERVICE

Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP)

PHARMACY SUPPORT WORKER Primary care

2x AFC Band 3 Pharmacy Support Worker (1x North West (Care Home) and 1x South East (General Practice) Edinburgh HSCPs)

(Full and Part Time Opportunities)

Salary Scale: £25,468 - £27,468

NHS Lothian covers Edinburgh city, East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian. We are the second largest health system in NHS Scotland and one of only four teaching Boards. We have strategic partnerships with local Universities, Local Authorities and our four Integration Joint Boards. We serve a population of 900,000, providing a range of primary, community based and acute hospital services. We also provide regional and national services across a range of clinical specialties.

The vision for the Pharmacy & Medicines service is to deliver clinically led, person-centred services to ensure patients across Lothian get the best from their medicines and pharmacy services. We are focussed on creating an environment where each person in the team has the opportunity to develop, flourish and make best use of their skills and works closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to deliver high quality care.

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”?

These are new roles within Primary Care and EHSCPs are looking for dynamic, highly motivated and enthusiastic pharmacy support workers, to take forward key prescribing initiatives within NHS Lothian and transform the delivery of pharmaceutical care ensuring the right medicine reaches the right patient at the right time. Working with the Primary Care Pharmacy team, GPs, Care Home staff and other healthcare professionals, this job will provide an exciting and challenging opportunity to optimise prescribing and medicines management in GP practices and Care Homes across Edinburgh.

Key aspects of this role will involve providing pharmaceutical care to individual patients whenever they present by meeting their particular needs while maximizing effectiveness and economic use of resources. The candidate will be expected to assist with the review of Care Home medication ordering between Care Home, General Practice and Community Pharmacy, ensure storage conditions of medicines within Care Homes are adequate, promote cost effective use/ordering of medicines within Care Homes and General Practice to reduce medicine waste and assist with medication and prescription enquires and communicate locality pharmacy team work plans.

Applications will be considered from those interested in job-sharing opportunities and those seeing part-time employment.

For Informal Enquiries, Please Contact The Following

North Edinburgh: Laura McLean, Lead Primary Care Pharmacy Technician

South Edinburgh: Barbara Irvine, Lead Primary Care Pharmacy Technician

Interviews with be held on Microsoft Teams


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