A Career defining leadership role in a place you’ll love to live and workNHS Fife is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated pharmacist to take on a cluster leadership position within our progressive and friendly Primary Care Pharmacy Team in South West Fife. This role provides the perfect blend of advanced clinical practice, team leadership, service development and person centred care.As a Senior Practice Clinical Pharmacist, you will lead and support a cluster of GP practices, ensuring the delivery of high quality pharmaceutical care across the area. You will deliver advanced clinical input, provide mentorship for developing pharmacists, and help shape how pharmacotherapy services evolve locally. With independent prescribing fully embedded across the service, you will have extensive opportunities to use your clinical expertise every day.Why join us?A supportive, innovative, award winning pharmacy serviceYou’ll join an established multidisciplinary team including Senior Practice Pharmacists, Practice Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Medicines Management Support Workers. Our service is known for being collaborative, welcoming and forward thinking—where staff wellbeing, development, and shared learning are built into our culture.Genuine opportunities for leadership and professional growthIn This Senior Role, You WillLead the delivery of pharmaceutical care across a GP clusterSupport, mentor and guide pharmacists, technicians and support staffContribute to service innovation, clinical governance and quality improvementPlay a central role in developing the wider pharmacotherapy workforceYou will have regular access to peer support, advanced clinical development sessions, and leadership opportunities. While primary care experience is desirable, we welcome applicants who bring strong clinical skills, leadership capability and a passion for developing others.A role that makes a real differenceYou will work as an integral member of the GP practice team, helping to optimise medicines use, reduce harm, and improve patient outcomes. Your leadership will support safe, effective and sustainable prescribing across the South West cluster.A fantastic place to build your careerSouth West Fife offers an excellent quality of life, with great transport links, a vibrant community and easy access to both city and country living. NHS Fife combines supportive teams with exciting career pathways—making this an ideal environment for advanced clinical pharmacists looking to grow and lead.You WillDeliver high quality clinical pharmacy services across GP practicesUndertake advanced medication and polypharmacy reviews as an independent prescriberOffer expert medicines advice to clinicians and patientsLead staff development, training and mentorshipSupport service planning, evaluation, innovation and quality improvementWork collaboratively across the primary care and community pharmacy interfaceTravel across the Dunfermline area as requiredWe’d love to tell you more—or you can arrange to spend time with the team. Contact: Calum Murray, Lead Clinical Pharmacist – General Practice: calum.murray2@nhs.scotAs from 1/4/26, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will be reducing from 37 to 36 hours per week. Part time hours will be reduced pro-rata. However, there will be a corresponding increase in the hourly rate so that pay will not be affected.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.AI tools like ChatGPT or Copilot can be great for planning and preparing your application—but your answers must be your own.Show us the real you: Your application should reflect your skills, experience, and motivations authentically.Use AI wisely: It’s fine to use AI for ideas or to check spelling and grammar, but don’t let it write your answers.Why this matters: Applications that rely on AI-generated content may be withdrawn. By applying, you confirm your responses are based on your own knowledge and achievements.Tip: Think of AI as a helper, not a substitute. We want to understand you—not an AI tool.NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
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