Specialist Clinical Pharmacist Frailty: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 49,387 to 56,515 £ / Year

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

As part of a team of Clinical Pharmacists and technicians you will be responsible for providing safe and effective medicines optimisation services to patients referred into the Integrated Pharmacy Team (IPT) and agreed community hospital sites. In addition, you will provide pharmaceutical advice to a range of specialist services.

You will develop an expertise in the optimisation of medicines in frailty, working with multidisciplinary teams to ensure that we achieve the best medicines related outcomes for the patients we serve.

Main duties of the job

  • Optimising medicines choice through medication review for patients in their own home or community hospital setting
  • Ensuring safe transfer of care into community hospitals including medicines reconciliation
  • Participation in KCHFT and primary care network (PCN) multidisciplinary team patient reviews
  • Assessment of concordance and implementation of appropriate interventions
  • Providing responses to medication queries
  • Provision of legal and ethical advice as appropriate for the service provision
  • Undertaking clinical development and contributing to the development of others
  • Supporting training to staff within the pharmacy service
  • Where required undertake training to become and independent prescriber
  • Supporting and facilitating Quality Improvement (QI)
  • Liaising with key stakeholders in order to explore identified risk areas

Person Specification

Qualifications, training and experience

Essential

  • MSc in Pharmacy (entry level for pharmacy)
  • Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Post registration community or hospital experience
  • Understanding of practical medicines management issues in community based services
  • Commitment to mandatory continual professional development (CPD)

Knowledge and skills

Essential

  • Understanding of patient centred medicines optimisation including deprescribing
  • Expertise on legal and ethical pharmaceutical issues in all areas relating to community health services
  • Experience and knowledge of the supply, distribution, storage and administration of pharmaceuticals in Community Hospital and Primary Care settings
  • Knowledge of risk management and assurance issues relating to all aspects of medicines use
  • Knowledge of other professions and their registering bodies e.g. Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
  • Knowledge of the changing NHS environment and structures
  • Understanding of Government Policy and vision for the development of prescribing and pharmacy Services
  • Knowledge of storage, use and disposal of pharmaceutical products with due regard to local and national policies
  • Understanding of the concepts of Clinical Governance

Working Environment

Essential

  • A full, valid UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) and the ability to travel independently are essential for this role. Should you require workplace adjustments under the Equality Act 2010, we are committed to supporting you to meet the mobility requirements of the role wherever possible.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 4 October 2026

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