Senior Pharmacist - Weight Management Services (LW)

NHS Ayrshire & Arran; Munster; On-site; EUR 61,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Fife is seeking an experienced independent prescribing pharmacist to join the Adult Weight Management Service as Senior Pharmacist – Weight Management Services. This role will lead the new Medicine Pathway, delivering pharmacological treatment alongside dietetics and psychological support.

You will prescribe and monitor GLP-1/GIP-RA therapies, perform assessments, and contribute to governance and service improvement in NHS Scotland.

Qualifications

• Independent prescribing pharmacist with NHS experience.

Responsibilities

• Act as designated pharmacist prescriber within the Weight Management Medicine Pathway.
• Undertake clinical assessment and virtual consultations.
• Initiate, prescribe and monitor GLP-1/GIP-RA therapies for weight management.
• Review treatment effectiveness and manage adverse effects.
• Collaborate with dietetics, psychology and multidisciplinary teams.
• Contribute to pathway development, governance and service improvement.

Job description

NHS FIFE INTERNAL CANDIDATES ONLY

You are required to be an NHS Fife Employee, Intern or Bank Staff member to apply for this post.

A career-defining leadership role in a place you’ll love to live and work

NHS Fife is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic independent prescribing pharmacist to join the Adult Weight Management Service (AWMS) as Senior Pharmacist - Weight Management Services. This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in delivering NHS Fife's new Adult Weight Management Service Medicine Pathway, supporting patients with severe obesity to access evidence based pharmacological treatment alongside specialist dietetic, psychological and physical activity interventions.

As a Senior Pharmacist for Weight Management Services, you will:

• Act as the designated pharmacist prescriber within the Adult Weight Management Service Medicine Pathway.
• Undertake clinical assessment and virtual consultations for patients referred through the Adult Weight Management Service.
• Initiate, prescribe and monitor GLP-1/GIP-RA therapies for weight management.
• Review treatment effectiveness, manage adverse effects and determine continuation or discontinuation of therapy.
• Work collaboratively with Dieticians, Health Care Support Workers, Psychologists and wider multidisciplinary teams.
• Contribute to pathway development, audit, evaluation and service improvement.
• Support governance and medicines optimisation relating to weight management medicines.
• Help shape one of NHS Scotland's emerging weight management medicine services.

Work within a truly multidisciplinary service

You’ll join a supportive and innovative multidisciplinary team bringing together expertise from pharmacy, dietetics, psychology and healthcare support workers to deliver NHS Fife's new weight management Medicine Pathway. The service has been designed to provide patients with holistic, evidence-based care, combining pharmacological treatment with specialist lifestyle, behavioural and nutritional support.

Help shape a new and evolving service

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the development of one of NHS Fife's most significant new clinical services. As the dedicated pharmacist prescriber within the Adult Weight Management Service, you will play a pivotal role in establishing safe, effective and equitable access to weight management medicines while helping to shape future service delivery models.

Advanced clinical practice with real impact

You will work directly with patients living with obesity and associated comorbidities, undertaking clinical assessment, prescribing, monitoring treatment outcomes and providing expert medicines advice as part of a multidisciplinary team. Your work will contribute to improving health outcomes, reducing health inequalities and supporting person-centred care across Fife.

Professional development and innovation

The role offers opportunities to contribute to pathway development, clinical governance, evaluation, audit and quality improvement. You will work alongside experienced clinical leaders within Pharmacy and Dietetics while helping to develop an emerging area of practice within NHS Scotland.

Existing permanent employees must first discuss this opportunity with their substantive line manager. The secondment policy can be found here Hub

• Blink (joinblink.com) If you do not have approval for a secondment from your current line manager, you will not be able to progress your application for a fixed term post. External applicants, with continuous NHS Service, must also have in place a secondment agreement, from their existing board to apply for this post.

We’d love to tell you more Contact: Fraser Notman, Lead Pharmacist – Medicines Utilisation and Therapeutics ([e-mail]) or Amina Slimani-Fersia, Head of Pharmacy Governance and Therapeutics ([e-mail])

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

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 Immigrations 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 websitehere.

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 sponsoredBEFORE submitting your application form.

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

Please note the salary is pro rata for part time hours.

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