Hospital at Home Pharmacist

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; Halifax; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health organization in the UK is seeking a Hospital at Home Pharmacist to join its Urgent Community Response Service. The role involves providing clinical pharmacy services to patients in their homes, reviewing medication, and collaborating closely with healthcare teams to optimize patient care. Ideal candidates will have an MPharm degree, be a registered pharmacist, and possess excellent communication and problem-solving skills. This is a permanent position with a flexible working pattern and a salary range of £47,810 to £54,710 per annum, pro rata.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Evidence of practical experience in medication review in a hospital or community setting.
• Excellent knowledge of Clinical Pharmacy and Medicines Management.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients in homes.
• Review medication compliance and work with community teams.
• Participate in MDT meetings and assess risks related to medication.

Skills

Clinical Pharmacy

Medication Review

Good Communication Skills

Problem Solving Skills

Team Collaboration

Education

MPharm or equivalent Degree in Pharmacy

Registered Pharmacist with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Tools

Systmone

EMIS

Cerner

Pharmoutcomes

Job description

Hospital at Home Pharmacist

The closing date is 08 February 2026

The role of the Virtual Ward Pharmacist sits within the Calderdale Urgent Community Response Service. This service provides urgent assessment, care and intervention to support people to remain at home, avoid hospital admissions and to step down from hospital to community sooner. The Urgent Community Response Service works as a multi-disciplinary team with Allied Health Professionals, Nurses, Rehabilitation Assistants and Independent Living Officers - providing anything from a 0-2hr urgent assessment at home, to supporting individuals with domiciliary care for up to a week. The service accepts anyone over the age of 18 therefore a very varied caseload of people to support, all with different needs.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible for providing a specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients in their own homes or care homes in the Calderdale and Huddersfield area this may be as part of the Virtual ward (VW)/ Urgent Community response Team (UCR) or the wider Community Division. The post holder will be an integral part of the virtual ward team and work seamlessly between primary and secondary care and link with a range of healthcare professionals to optimise concordance and compliance with prescribed medication.

For the purpose of this post all patients who are accepted to the Community caseload and are registered with a GP in Calderdale or Huddersfield may be reviewed, they may also be referred directly from CHFT staff or Gateway to Care when concerns about medication that might increase chances of admission or readmission are identified. Patients may be on high risk medication or complex regimes.

Job responsibilities

The postholder:

Main Tasks

Patients will be reviewed in a home setting as soon as possible after acceptance on the Community Team caseload.

Review medication and work closely with Community Teams which includes consultants, advanced clinical practitioners, physiotherapists, OTs, nurses, GPs and community pharmacists to ensure patients are able to derive the maximum benefit from prescribed medication.

Participates in MDT meetings via Teams or Face to Face as per frequency and need of the service.

Assess compliance with medication and any other factors related to medication which may lead to hospital admission or deterioration in condition.

Working closely with patients to implement medicines management and optimisation.

To liaise with GPs and community pharmacists to ensure that medicines are reconciled following transfer to primary care. Identify and follow up any discrepancies.

To communicate with GPs, community pharmacists and hospital consultants any recommendations in respect to individual patient medication changes, requirements or concerns as appropriate to the needs of the patient.

To provide skilled pharmaceutical counselling to patients in the domiciliary care setting in order to improve concordance and compliance with medicines and to reduce risks from medication related events. To promote concepts of self‑care with patients, significant others, and healthcare professionals in respect to medicines and medicines concordance.

To work in an independent manner to explore all ways of supporting patients with complex medication issues.

To work in partnership with the patient, carers and relatives to reflect patient choice, to support self‑care.

Further develop and feedback on key performance indicators.

Work closely with virtual ward teams within CHFT and key personnel in the community in Calderdale and Huddersfield.

To develop and maintain excellent working relationships with the appropriate healthcare professionals and other agencies in primary and secondary care.

Work with the CHFT Community teams to develop the service and provide training to staff.

Visits patients in their own homes or care homes within the Community setting.

Participates in weekend, public holiday, out of hours and extended hours provision of pharmacy services.

Complies with Trust policies relating to security and patient confidentiality and to ensure that procedures are undertaken within safe systems of work and legislation.

Assists the community directorate pharmacist in controlling drug expenditure.

Ensure the appropriate stock control and storage of materials and safe maintenance of equipment used in the provision of the community directorate Pharmacy services.

Contribute to the service development and maintenance of policies, procedures and records for the community directorate Pharmacy Service and medicines management.

Clinical Duties

Reviews medication in high‑risk patients for clinical appropriateness, drug interactions and assess compliance and concordance issues.

Provides professional and clinical information and advice to the multidisciplinary healthcare staff in primary and secondary care, patients and carers, to support individual patient care and medicines management.

Makes recommendations tailored to the context of specific patients or situations, including calculations for complex drug regimens.

Addresses issues of co‑existing medical diseases and conditions such as renal and hepatic impairment, and concurrent medications.

Applies sound professional judgement to complex clinical issues and dilemmas, particularly where definitive information is lacking.

Regularly participates in pharmacy practice research and clinical audit.

If a prescriber, prescribes within area of competence. Work towards attaining an Independent Prescriber qualification if not a prescriber.

Due to the nature of the role the successful applicant would hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle. However, if this is not possible due to a disability defined by the Equality Act 2010 then reasonable adjustments would be considered.

Counsel patients and/or their carers to ensure safe and effective medicine use.

Liaise with antibiotic pharmacists and microbiology to ensure adherence to the antibiotic formulary, prescribing guidelines and antimicrobial management policy.

Responses to urgent requests for advice and guidance on complex medication regimes.

Managerial Duties

Produce detailed reports on medicines spend, usage, security and adherence to NICE guidelines and Technology appraisal and other applicable pharmacy services or performance indicators. Provide recommendations in support of medicines optimisation strategies and provide efficiency savings related to specialty area. Reviews medication in high‑risk patients for clinical appropriateness, medicine interactions and assess compliance and concordance issues in order to facilitate safe, effective and cost‑effective use of medicines and optimize patient care.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING

• MPharm or equivalent Degree in Pharmacy approved by RPSGB.
• Registered Pharmacist with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

• Evidence of practical experience of medication review in a hospital or community setting
• Recent relevant pre‑registration training and experience in hospital
• Good knowledge of Clinical Pharmacy, Medicines Management and Pharmacy Practice acquired through training and experience
• Evidence of Pharmacy Practice Research and Clinical Audit
• Ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines whilst paying attention to detail.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Demonstrate commitment to CPD
• Able to fulfil all physical requirements of the post with Occupational Health clearance
• Knowledge of drug budgets

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Self‑motivating and the ability to influence others
• Experience of managing staff
• Has recent experience using: Systmone, EMIS, Cerner and Pharmoutcomes.

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.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full‑time,Part‑time,Job share,Flexible working

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum, pro rata