Specialist Clinical Pharmacist Frailty

Kent Community Health Nhs Foundation Trust; Aylesford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist Frailty to join the Integrated Pharmacy Team in Ashford. You will provide safe and effective medicines optimisation services to patients referred to IPT and to community hospital sites, offering pharmaceutical advice to a range of services.

You will develop expertise in medicines optimisation for frailty, work with multidisciplinary teams, support training, and contribute to Quality Improvement, with potential

Qualifications

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

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.
• 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 to explore identified risk areas.

Skills

Meds optimisation

GPhC registration

Post-registration experience

CPD commitment

Understanding medicines management

Education

MSc in Pharmacy

Job description

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
• 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

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [e-mail], quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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
• 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.

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.

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).

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

Specialist Clinical Pharmacist Frailty Ashford, United Kingdom