Practice Pharmacist (LW)

About the role

NHS Fife is offering a career-defining opportunity for a motivated pharmacist to join their Primary Care Pharmacy Team in Glenrothes Fife. This role offers the chance to become part of a friendly, forward-thinking service that values innovation, collaboration, and high-quality, person-centred care.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with GP practices to deliver high-impact pharmaceutical care, including polypharmacy reviews, medicines reconciliation, acute and repeat prescribing support, and independent prescribing activity.
• Utilise clinical skills to support safe, effective, and evidence-based care for patients across Glenrothes Fife.
• 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.
• Collaborate across the primary care and community pharmacy interface.

Requirements

Primary care experience is beneficial but not essential. If you're enthusiastic, clinically capable, and keen to develop, full training will be provided.

Qualifications

A degree in pharmacy, registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), and membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).

Skills

Strong clinical skills, ability to work collaboratively, and commitment to delivering high-quality, person-centred care.

Benefits

Supportive, integrated, award-winning pharmacy service.

Pay

Full-time hours are available (37h), with part-time options considered.

Schedule

Full-time hours are available (37h), with part-time options considered.

Informal Enquiries

We'd love to tell you more or you can arrange to spend time with the team to see the role in action. Informal enquiries: Calum Murray, Lead Clinical Pharmacist – Primary Care calum.murray2@nhs.scot

Additional Information

A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. 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 Immigration Service. 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 here. 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 sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.

Flexible Working and Family-Friendly Policies

NHS Scotland offers flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully supports disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

Equality and Diversity

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among its workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for its 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.