260674 Specialist Clinical Pharmacist – Primary Care

Job reference:

260674

Salary:

Band 7 (£52,845 - £61,466)

Job closing date:

09/10/2026

Job Type:

Other Therapeutic

Location:

Midlothian Community Hospital

Employment type:

Permanent

Hours Per Week:

36

Job posted date:

25/09/2026

Employer (NHS Board):

NHS Lothian

Department:

• Midlothian HSCP Pharmacy Team
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MIDLOTHIAN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PARTNERSHIP

SPECIALIST CLINICAL PHARMACIST

• AFC Band 7: £52,845 - £61,466
• 1.0 WTE Posts
• 36 hours
• Permanent
• (Including oncall and public holiday commitment)

Are you looking for a new challenge and opportunities to develop your skills?

A unique opportunity has arisen to join our award-winning team working across both hospital and primary care settings. We are looking for an enthusiastic pharmacist to contribute to our clinical pharmacy service delivery across Midlothian Community Hospital and Midlothian Primary Care.

About the Role

The role will be split across two exciting areas – Midlothian Community Hospital providing patient centred inpatient care and Midlothian Primary Care.

You will join a dedicated team delivering specialist clinical pharmacy services across Medicines of the Elderly rehabilitation, Hospital Based Complex Care and Psychiatry beds at Midlothian Community Hospital. The post holder will help develop and deliver the service, supporting challenges around capacity and patient flow, and will play a key role within a multidisciplinary team, including non-medical prescribing.

In addition, the successful candidate will work in general practices delivering services locally as well as centrally with our team in the medicine’s reconciliation hub. We require an experienced pharmacist to deliver a range of clinical pharmacy services including polypharmacy reviews. You will be responsible for monitoring service delivery and providing reports to key stakeholders including Health and Social Care Partnershup clinical leads.

Why join our team?

You will be supported to develop key skills in service innovation, staff leadership, education and training. Working in a highly collaborative, cross-professional environment, you will be empowered to contribute meaningfully to patient care. The successful candidate will have the unique opportunity to work in both hospital and primary care settings gaining a unique insight into providing care across the interface and working with a range of other healthcare professionals to ensure patient centred optimum care. The Primary Care Pharmacy Service is enthusiastic about participating in practice-based research using quality improvement methodology.

Work life balance and wellbeing are hugely important in the modern workplace and Midlothian makes the perfect base. Local transport, including the Border’s Railway, mean Edinburgh city centre is only 20 minutes away, and we are ideally situated to access both the Pentland Hills as well as the stunning East Lothian coastline. The Scottish borders region is also easily accessible from Midlothian

Excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills are required. This post requires Enhanced PVG Scheme Membership.

Informal enquiries are welcomed, and further information may be obtained from Marjory Neill, Advanced Pharmacist – Midlothian Primary Care, marjory.neill@nhs.scot

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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.