Clinical Pharmacist - Care Homes and Frailty
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
London, SE1 7EH
Salary
£58,133 to £65,261
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
16 September 2026
13 days left
Job description
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a clinically skilled pharmacist to support the Care Homes & Frailty Pharmacy Service across Lambe...
As a Care Homes and Frailty Pharmacist, you will provide clinical pharmacy input across care homes, community settings and primary care interfaces in Lambeth and Southwark. You will undertake medicines reconciliation, structured medication reviews and targeted optimisation interventions for older adults living with frailty.
You will work with pharmacy technicians, care-home staff, GPs, geriatricians and adult social care teams to address medicines-related risks, support safe prescribing and deprescribing, and ensure effective communication of pharmaceutical care plans. You will contribute to improving medicines systems within care homes, including reviewing processes and supporting implementation of best practice.
Your responsibilities will include participating in audit and quality-improvement activity, contributing to guideline and SOP development, and delivering training to registered and non-registered staff. You will take part in MDT discussions and case reviews to support coordinated, person-centred care.
For further information on the role and its requirements please refer to attached job description and person specification documents.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts, providing specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered member of GPhC
- Postgraduate Certificate or Diploma or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Qualified non-medical prescriber
- Specialist training, qualification or education in the care of older people
Experience
Essential
- Working within multidisciplinary teams across primary, community or social care
- Undertaking medication reviews in older people including adherence support and deprescribing
- Delivering direct pharmaceutical care to patients with long term conditions and frailty
- Delivering training to care home staff or community teams or non-pharmacy teams
- Developing and undertaking audits
Desirable
- Experience working across integrated care settings (PCNs, GP practices, community services and social care)
- Experience managing patients independently (e.g., polypharmacy clinics, anticoagulation clinics, frailty pathways)
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrable knowledge, skills and ability to undertake clinical screening and medicines reconciliation
- Demonstrable experience of clinically influencing at senior level e.g. ward rounds or MDT meetings
- Understands primary and secondary care working and organisational structures in relation to the ageing population
- Understands the effects of ageing on drug handling and medicines use
- Understands pharmacy and medicines risks in older people living with frailty, polypharmacy, multimorbidity and the role of pharmacy to mitigate those risks
Desirable
- Understands national policies and the context around managing long term conditions, case management and reducing unnecessary hospital admissions in the NHS and their implication for medicines management
Skills
Essential
- Ability to provide high-quality clinical advice and communicate complex pharmacy issues that may be frequently challenged
- Willingness to tackle difficult issues as well as challenge practices and systems that lead to sub-optimal use of medicines
- Highly developed communication, interpersonal, negotiating and influencing skills
- Able to recognise limitations and scope of their practice and know when to escalate matters appropriately
- Ability to make important decisions in pressured situations.
Essential
- Self-sufficient in word processing, internet, PowerPoint, e-mail and spreadsheet use
- Able to communicate and work effectively and co-operatively with a wide range of people of different backgrounds and viewpoints
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
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First seen
1 September 2026
Last checked
3 September 2026
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