Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Frailty (LW)

Job details

• Job reference: 248313
• Salary: Band 8A (£65,125 - £70,303)
• Job closing date: 08/07/2026
• Job Type: Other Therapeutic
• Location: Victoria Hospital
• Employment type: Fixed-term
• Hours Per Week: 36
• Job posted date: 24/06/2026
• Employer (NHS Board): NHS Fife
• Department: Pharmacy

Are you ready to shape the future of clinical pharmacy in one of Scotland’s most rapidly developing specialties?

NHS Fife is offering an exciting opportunity for an innovative and motivated pharmacist to join our Frailty & Community Health Pharmacy Service. This is a unique chance to help influence service redesign, and directly improve outcomes for patients across Fife.

As a Senior Clinical Pharmacist, you will become a key member of a multidisciplinary team driving high-quality, patient-centred care. You will develop specialist expertise and work with patients receiving complex polypharmacy regimens, supporting safe prescribing, treatment optimisation, and monitoring. An Independent Prescribing qualification is highly desirable.

This post sits within the Frailty and Community Health team, whose portfolio includes acute care of the elderly, community Hospitals, hospital at home and hospice. You will work closely with the Lead Clinical Pharmacist and play a critical role in the the development of the frailty service. You will communicate highly complex clinical information with clarity and compassion, supporting joint decision-making with patients, consultants, specialist nurses and the wider MDT.

You will demonstrate strong, collaborative leadership, contributing to clinical governance, quality improvement, education, and medicines optimisation at service and organisational level. You will be supported by the Lead Clinical Pharmacist –Frailty & Community Health, the wider Senior Pharmacy Team, and a committed Frailty service progressing through a transformation programme. This role offers significant scope to shape clinical practice, lead service innovation, and contribute to the future strategic development of pharmacy services in NHS Fife.

The NHS Fife Pharmacy Service is undergoing an ambitious programme of transformation and integration. It serves a population of approximately 380,000 people, and is provided by an integrated team of around 300 Pharmacy staff, including Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Support Workers, Nurses, and Administrators. We pride ourselves on being a vibrant, welcoming and friendly team that is made up of hardworking, talented and dedicated individuals who work towards a common goal of putting our patients at the heart of everything that we do. We are committed to our staffs experience and development and ensuring both our staff and patients experience the same compassion and empathy. The team work across Acute and Community hospital sites, General Practices, Mental Health services, and a range of specialist teams. Partnership working is at the core of our values, and we work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, including our Community Pharmacy colleagues, to deliver the highest quality care for everyone in Fife.

There are opportunities to become involved in a range of projects across the integrated Pharmacy Directorate as well as shaping the future vision for the service. As part of our staff engagement and leadership, our Pharmacy Senior Leadership hold regular staff briefing sessions to update the team on new developments, celebrate achievements and to hear ideas from our staff.

Fife has something to offer everyone and getting to Fife is simple, with excellent public transport links from around the UK. This fabulous region is not far from Scotland’s major cities and is also very easy to get around. With Edinburgh just to the south, Dundee and Perth to the north, and Glasgow to the southwest, Fife is in a great position in Scotland and getting here is simple thanks to excellent air, road, rail, and public transport links from around the UK.

This is an exciting role that offers the opportunity to lead, both locally, within the context of an integrated service, and nationally. We look forward to receiving your application in course.

Please refer to the job pack for details on the role.

Informal Enquiries:

For further information or to arrange a visit please contact Rizwan Din rizwan.din5@nhs.scot or John Brown john.brown11@nhs.scot

A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.

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