Specialist Nurse - Medicine Management,...

Scot; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Lothian is recruiting an experienced registered nurse to join the Pharmacy Medicine Safety Team at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. You will lead medicines safety education, advise on medicines management, and support quality improvement across services.

This role blends clinical nursing with governance, requires NMC registration, post‑registration clinical experience, and the ability to work with multidisciplinary teams to improve patient safety. A PVG disclosure will be required.

Qualifications

• NMC registration and current nursing status.
• Post-registration clinical experience in healthcare settings.
• Experience delivering education and training to healthcare professionals.
• Knowledge of medicines management and medicines safety.
• Experience with quality improvement, audits, and clinical governance.
• Excellent communication, organisation and influencing skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.
• Strong relationship-building skills with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, deliver and evaluate medicines management education and training for nursing and multidisciplinary staff.
• Provide expert advice and leadership on medicines management and safe medicines administration.
• Support the investigation of medication-related incidents and translate learning into practice improvements.
• Use audit findings and incident data to identify risk and drive quality improvements.
• Contribute to policy, guideline and safety initiative development and implementation.
• Collaborate across professional groups to promote safe and effective medicine use.

Skills

NMC registration

Post-registration clinical experience

Education & training delivery

Medicines management knowledge

Quality improvement

Audit & governance

Communication & influencing

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Independent working & prioritisation

Job description

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Are you experienced registered nurse with a passion for medicine safety, education and quality improvement? Would you like to use your clinical expertise to influence how medicines are used safely across one of Scotland’s largest Health Boards? If so, this is an exciting opportunity to join NHS Lothian’s Pharmacy Medicine Safety Team and play a key role in improving the safe use of medicines for patients across our services.

About the Role

This is a unique role that combines medicines safety, education, quality improvement and professional leadership. Working as part of the Pharmacy Medicine Safety Team, you will collaborate with nursing, pharmacy and multidisciplinary colleagues to lead and support improvements in medicines management practice, helping to enhance patient safety across NHS Lothian. While the post is based at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, the successful candidate will contribute to NHS Lothian-wide medicines safety priorities and work across services and sites as required to promote the safe, effective and high-quality use of medicines.

• Design, deliver and evaluate medicines management education and training for nursing and multidisciplinary staff
• Provide expert advice and leadership on medicines management and safe medicines administration
• Support the investigation of medication‑related incidents and translate learning into meaningful improvements in practice
• Use audit findings, incident data and feedback to identify risk and drive quality improvement initiatives
• Contribute to the development and implementation of policies, guidelines and safety initiatives
• Work collaboratively across professional groups to promote a culture of safe and effective medicine use

To maintain credibility and ensure education remains grounded in practice, the role includes a regular clinical commitment within nursing services.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to develop a highly rewarding career focused on improving patient safety at a system level.

• A varied and influential role with opportunities to make a tangible impact on medicines safety across NHS Lothian
• The chance to work with highly experienced pharmacy, nursing and governance teams
• Opportunities to lead and contribute to quality improvement, innovation and patient safety projects
• A supportive environment committed to professional development and lifelong learning
• Opportunities to develop expertise in medicines safety, education, leadership and quality improvement

About you

We are looking for an enthusiastic and collaborative registered nurse who can inspire others and champion safe medicines practice.

• Current Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) registration
• Relevant post-registration clinical experience
• Experience of delivering education and training to healthcare professionals
• Knowledge and experience of medicines management and medicines safety
• Experience of quality improvement, audit, service development work or clinical governance activities.
• Excellent communication, organisation and influencing skills
• The ability to work independently and manage competing priorities
• Strong relationship building skills and experience of working across multidisciplinary teams

About NHS Lothian
At NHS Lothian, we are committed to fostering equality, diversity, and inclusion in our workforce. Serving a population of 900,000, we are the second-largest health system in NHS Scotland and home to one of its four teaching boards. Join a dynamic organisation that values innovation, research, and excellence in healthcare delivery.

Ready to Take the Next Step?

For further information on what is included in the role and the skills/experience we’re looking for, please refer to the job description and person specification linked below. However, we understand that there's only so much a job pack can convey.

Caroline Souter, Advanced Pharmacist Medicine Safety

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Craig Stenhouse, Chief Nurse, Royal Edinburgh Hospital

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This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/record. If the post holder is 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.
For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions, please contact [e-mail]

Recruitment process We use a values and competency-based recruitment process that is linked to the ambitions set out in our Strategic Plan. Within NHS Lothian, Nursing and Midwifery interviews are linked to our Nursing & Midwifery Strategic Plan. We aim to offer an equitable experience and are sharing interview questions in advance. A selection of the interview questions can be found on our Careers site: How to Apply How to Apply NHS Lothian Careers

Reference

264203

Contract Type

Permanent

Closing Date

20/11/2026