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.

FURTHER INFORMATION

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

NHS Lanarkshire are looking to recruit a highly motivated clinical pharmacist to work in split post within the HEPMA Pharmacy Team and Acute Clinical Pharmacy Team at University Hospital Hairmyres. The position will help to ensure the ambitions of the NHS Lanarkshire Five Year Digital Plan. This includes providing an essential link to clinical teams working on the acute sites to ensure realisation of HEPMA benefits including clinical governance, safety of medicines and prescribing. You will work with other members of the HEPMA team to provide training, ongoing system maintenance, analysis of HEPMA data and complete the roll out to remaining specialist areas including paediatrics and outpatients. The HEPMA team supports clinicians in all three Lanarkshire acute hospitals (University Hospitals Wishaw, Monklands and Hairmyres) and the off-site beds in NHS Lanarkshire.
The post holder will work within ward areas providing specialist advice to medical staff and the multidisciplinary teams to improve and develop the pharmaceutical services. The post holder will be an independent prescriber (or working towards) and will be a mentor/supervisor for junior pharmacists and students undertaking placements.
Participation in the HEPMA on call rota is required as well as a commitment to weekend and public holiday working within University Hospital Hairmyres.