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WESTERN ISLES HOSPITAL, STORNOWAY, ISLE OF LEWIS, HS1 2AF

Bank Specialist Clinical Pharmacist

Band 7 £50,861 - £59,159 pro rata

Plus Distant Islands Allowance of £1,406 pro rata

Bank post

This post is in based at the Western Isles Hospital in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis and offers an excellent opportunity for an experienced self-motivated pharmacist to help continue exciting work in developing a clinical and patient focussed clinical pharmacy service.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a friendly and highly motivated multidisciplinary team including a full range of healthcare professionals.

The post-holder will be one of a team of pharmacists and technicians working at this hospital and will be responsible for the clinical pharmacy service to a number of wards. There may also be opportunities to get involved in providing a clinical pharmacy service to the local hospice and remotely to the other two hospitals throughout the archipelago. The pharmacist team work closely with colleagues in Primary Care Pharmacy to enhance safe patient transition over boundaries of care. The service is using HEPMA across Western Isles Hospital and in Uist and Barra Hospital. There are other technology projects in the planning stage.

We are offering an opportunity to live and work in our beautiful and rural island community. You can enjoy amazing outdoor and cultural activities such as kayaking, surfing, climbing, hill walking, diving as well as a wealth of traditional crafts and music related pursuits. There is an active social life around the island and the opportunity to join a variety of community lead groups and initiatives. We are also only a short journey from Glasgow, Inverness and Edinburgh by plane, with twice daily ferry sailing to Ullapool.

For an informal chat on the above posts and how it may suit you, please contact Dr Sue Price, Chief Pharmacist, Tel 01851 708140 or sue.price@nhs.scot.

The successful applicant will be required to register with the PVG Scheme (Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme). This post is not eligible for relocation expenses.

All NHS Western Isles vacancies appear on the NHS Scotland website: apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk, along with a job description.

Tha beàrnan-obrach NHS Eilean Siar uile gu léir a' nochdadh air làrach-lìn NHS na h-Alba https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/, còmhla ri dealbh-obrach.

If you have any further queries, please contact Tel: 01851 762027.

CLOSING DATE: 26/09/2025