Advanced Pharmacist Elderly Care, Rehabilitation and Frailty

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust; Rushden; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in England is seeking an Advanced Pharmacist for Elderly Care, Rehabilitation, and Frailty. The role involves delivering clinical pharmacy services to inpatient units, performing medicines reviews, and contributing to multidisciplinary teams. The ideal candidate must be a registered pharmacist with postgraduate qualifications and relevant experience in NHS settings. This position requires independent travel and may involve managing staff and participating in audits.

Qualifications

• Registered with GPhC as a Pharmacist.
• Post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy.
• Evidence of recent continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver on-site clinical pharmacy services to inpatient units.
• Undertake medicines reviews to rationale complex regimes.
• Provide clinical pharmacy service to patients.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy knowledge

Communication

Independent prescribing

Data analysis

Education

Post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy

Registered with GPhC as a Pharmacist

Job description

Go back Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Advanced Pharmacist Elderly Care, Rehabilitation and Frailty

The closing date is 21 September 2025

Are you looking for a rewarding and dynamic role where you can apply your knowledge, contribute to patient safety and be part of a multi-disciplinary team?

NHFT is looking for an experienced clinical pharmacist to support the delivery of a clinical pharmacy service to Spinneyfields and Turn Furlong inpatient units.

Spinneyfields provides accommodation for people requiring health and social care recovery and rehabilitation, delivered through a multi-disciplinary team employed by NHFT in a recovering independence unit.

NHFT are the lead provider for the RIBU, collaborating with West Northants Council. The service offers support for people with an need for rehabilitation, recuperation and/or assessment; subject to the screening criteria for the service being met. It is anticipated that admissions will primarily come from acute hospital discharge (Pathway 2 as described in national Discharge to Assess guidance), either following an acute stay in hospital or being stepped out from an emergency attendance to avoid admission to hospital.

This is a varied role with the successful applicant needing to work independently and within the pharmacy team. They will have their own clinical responsibilities which will contribute to the healthcare team and support the pharmacist attending the wards. Travel between sites will be necessary and you must be able to travel independently to other bases in the Trust across Northamptonshire.

Main duties of the job

As the Advanced Pharmacist Elderly Care, Rehabilitation and Frailty your duties will include:

• To develop and deliver on-site clinical pharmacy services to Spinneyfields and Turn Furlong and consider and potentially implement the role of pharmacist prescribing in this area
• To undertake medicines reviews as needed to rationalise complex regimes
• To be responsible for leading, delivering and evaluating clinical pharmacy services to patients within Spinneyfields and Turn Furlong
• To provide a clinical pharmacy service to Spinneyfields and Turn Furlong inpatient areas
• Where a prescribing qualification is held, to make changes to prescribed medication within agreed competence as required and monitor the patient's progress

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered with GPhC as a Pharmacist
• Post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy (or equivalent level of knowledge and experience)
• Evidence of recent continuing professional development
• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Independent prescriber

Experience

• Post registration experience within the NHS setting
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of planning, implementing, analysing, reporting and changing practice through audit
• Experience of teaching, mentoring and tutoring
• Experience of data collection, analysis and report writing
• Experience of prescribing within a specialty to optimise medicines for specific patient groups
• Management qualification relevant to the NHS
• Experience of developing and implementing medicines management policies and procedures
• Experience of managing staff

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.

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust