Michael Smith
@mspharm.bsky.social
Lead Clinical Pharmacist for Acute Services | GI Specialist Pharmacist | NHS Forth Valley | Associate Rep SSG Council | MPharm MRPharmS MSc IP | Views are my own
Closing date extended until 16/04/25 on our Dispensary Redesign post ⬇️
Join us to contribute to a new way of working!
Join us to contribute to a new way of working!
We are recruiting for a Pharmacy Support Worker and a Senior Pharmacist. Find out more and apply today ⬇
🔹Pharmacy Support Worker - Aseptic/Oncology apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetai...
🔹Senior Pharmacist - Dispensary Redesign apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetai...
🔹Pharmacy Support Worker - Aseptic/Oncology apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetai...
🔹Senior Pharmacist - Dispensary Redesign apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetai...
April 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Closing date extended until 16/04/25 on our Dispensary Redesign post ⬇️
Join us to contribute to a new way of working!
Join us to contribute to a new way of working!
Reposted by Michael Smith
Scotland: New two-year pay offer for Agenda for Change staff (incl. pharmacists). This is equivalent to 4.25% in 2025-26 and 3.75% in 2026-27.
More information will be put to Unite/GHP members in due course.
More information will be put to Unite/GHP members in due course.
April 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Scotland: New two-year pay offer for Agenda for Change staff (incl. pharmacists). This is equivalent to 4.25% in 2025-26 and 3.75% in 2026-27.
More information will be put to Unite/GHP members in due course.
More information will be put to Unite/GHP members in due course.
Reposted by Michael Smith
We are recruiting for a Pharmacy Support Worker and a Senior Pharmacist. Find out more and apply today ⬇
🔹Pharmacy Support Worker - Aseptic/Oncology apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetai...
🔹Senior Pharmacist - Dispensary Redesign apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetai...
🔹Pharmacy Support Worker - Aseptic/Oncology apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetai...
🔹Senior Pharmacist - Dispensary Redesign apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetai...
March 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
We are recruiting for a Pharmacy Support Worker and a Senior Pharmacist. Find out more and apply today ⬇
🔹Pharmacy Support Worker - Aseptic/Oncology apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetai...
🔹Senior Pharmacist - Dispensary Redesign apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetai...
🔹Pharmacy Support Worker - Aseptic/Oncology apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetai...
🔹Senior Pharmacist - Dispensary Redesign apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Please share 📣
💊 We have a 12 month secondment/fixed term vacancy for an 8A Senior Pharmacist to support our Dispensary Redesign, FVRH
Come and join our team at NHS FV. See advert for more details ⬇️
Would be delighted to chat to anyone who is interested 📞
apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetai...
💊 We have a 12 month secondment/fixed term vacancy for an 8A Senior Pharmacist to support our Dispensary Redesign, FVRH
Come and join our team at NHS FV. See advert for more details ⬇️
Would be delighted to chat to anyone who is interested 📞
apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Senior Pharmacist - Dispensary Redesign:Forth Valley Royal Hospital
apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk
March 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Please share 📣
💊 We have a 12 month secondment/fixed term vacancy for an 8A Senior Pharmacist to support our Dispensary Redesign, FVRH
Come and join our team at NHS FV. See advert for more details ⬇️
Would be delighted to chat to anyone who is interested 📞
apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetai...
💊 We have a 12 month secondment/fixed term vacancy for an 8A Senior Pharmacist to support our Dispensary Redesign, FVRH
Come and join our team at NHS FV. See advert for more details ⬇️
Would be delighted to chat to anyone who is interested 📞
apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Lovely spring sunset on way out of FVRH tonight 🌅 @nhsforthvalley.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Lovely spring sunset on way out of FVRH tonight 🌅 @nhsforthvalley.bsky.social
Reposted by Michael Smith
The paywall is down on the Times and Sunday Times website this weekend - a chance to read our work for free.
Here's three pieces I've written recently
1. What happens to your brain when you become a parent - mums and dads, good and bad, cuddles, tantrums and all
www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
Here's three pieces I've written recently
1. What happens to your brain when you become a parent - mums and dads, good and bad, cuddles, tantrums and all
www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
How being a parent physically alters your brain (dads included)
‘Baby brain’ is real. Increasing evidence suggests having kids causes big changes in our grey matter, and not always for the worse. Ben Spencer, science editor and frazzled father of two, explains
www.thetimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The paywall is down on the Times and Sunday Times website this weekend - a chance to read our work for free.
Here's three pieces I've written recently
1. What happens to your brain when you become a parent - mums and dads, good and bad, cuddles, tantrums and all
www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
Here's three pieces I've written recently
1. What happens to your brain when you become a parent - mums and dads, good and bad, cuddles, tantrums and all
www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
I have voted yes for:
✅ a stronger, louder professional voice for pharmacy
✅ Commitment to collaboration
✅ Advancing and driving excellence in patient care
✅ Workforce transformation
I have voted YES for @rpharms.com to become a Royal College.
✅ a stronger, louder professional voice for pharmacy
✅ Commitment to collaboration
✅ Advancing and driving excellence in patient care
✅ Workforce transformation
I have voted YES for @rpharms.com to become a Royal College.
March 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I have voted yes for:
✅ a stronger, louder professional voice for pharmacy
✅ Commitment to collaboration
✅ Advancing and driving excellence in patient care
✅ Workforce transformation
I have voted YES for @rpharms.com to become a Royal College.
✅ a stronger, louder professional voice for pharmacy
✅ Commitment to collaboration
✅ Advancing and driving excellence in patient care
✅ Workforce transformation
I have voted YES for @rpharms.com to become a Royal College.
This is a big moment for the profession. It’s time for positive change ✅
We warmly welcome today's statement from the four UK Chief Pharmaceutical Officers who "strongly encourage Royal Pharmaceutical Society Members and Fellows to take this historic opportunity to vote in favour of a Royal College of Pharmacy." More: bit.ly/43AANDK
Voting opens Thursday 13 March.
Voting opens Thursday 13 March.
March 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This is a big moment for the profession. It’s time for positive change ✅
Nice wee start to some annual leave 🥂
March 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Nice wee start to some annual leave 🥂
There are no words….
Jesus, Trump and JD Vance playing bad cop-bad cop with Zelensky is stomach churning here.
February 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
There are no words….
Reposted by Michael Smith
Pharmacy teams are under extreme pressure from medicines shortages. Our workforce wellbeing survey with Pharmacist Support and APTUK highlights their impact on mental health, with many facing verbal abuse. Urgent action is needed.
More: bit.ly/4gMPdnk #PharmacyWellbeing
More: bit.ly/4gMPdnk #PharmacyWellbeing
February 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Pharmacy teams are under extreme pressure from medicines shortages. Our workforce wellbeing survey with Pharmacist Support and APTUK highlights their impact on mental health, with many facing verbal abuse. Urgent action is needed.
More: bit.ly/4gMPdnk #PharmacyWellbeing
More: bit.ly/4gMPdnk #PharmacyWellbeing
Reposted by Michael Smith
NHS Scotland Agenda for Change - “the further hour reduction in the standard working week required to deliver the 36 hour commitment for Agenda for Change staff in Scotland should be effective from 1 April 2026”.
www.publications.scot.nhs.uk/publication/...
www.publications.scot.nhs.uk/publication/...
NHS Scotland - Publications
NHS Scotland - Publications
www.publications.scot.nhs.uk
February 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
NHS Scotland Agenda for Change - “the further hour reduction in the standard working week required to deliver the 36 hour commitment for Agenda for Change staff in Scotland should be effective from 1 April 2026”.
www.publications.scot.nhs.uk/publication/...
www.publications.scot.nhs.uk/publication/...
Finally decided to come across…this seems like the old twitter over here! 😬
a man with glasses applauds with the words very nice i like it behind him
ALT: a man with glasses applauds with the words very nice i like it behind him
media.tenor.com
February 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Finally decided to come across…this seems like the old twitter over here! 😬