Specialist Clinical Pharmacist Frailty

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; Ashford; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join the Integrated Pharmacy Team (IPT). You will optimise medicines for patients referred to IPT and provide pharmaceutical advice across specialist services.

You will develop expertise in medicines optimisation for frailty, working with multidisciplinary teams to achieve optimal patient outcomes in community settings.

Responsibilities

• 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

Job description

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.

• 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

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is due to integrate with Medway Community Healthcare on 1 October 2026. Following integration and to align our community services to the new Neighbourhood Model of care delivery, there will be a period of consultation which may result in changes affecting some services, teams or roles. Depending on the area you are applying to work in, this could include potential changes to your role, work base, reporting arrangements, or terms and conditions of employment. Any changes would be subject to consultation and managed sensitively and in line with relevant employment processes. Please do contact the recruiting manager if you have any concerns about this so they can answer any questions you might have.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by CQC, we deliver high-quality care that improves the health of our communities. We are looking for people who share our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive and Excellent.

We are proud to be an inclusive, welcoming organisation and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We use protected characteristic information for monitoring only and it is not seen by recruiting managers, except where applicants choose to be considered under our disability guaranteed interview scheme.

We know life outside work matters. As a flexible working-friendly organisation, we welcome conversations about arrangements that help you thrive while supporting excellent care for our patients.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sophie Bean Job title: Advanced Clinical Frailty Pharmacist Email address: [e-mail]