Advanced Specialist Pharmacist- Elderly Care & Frailty

Job overview

Are you a pharmacist looking for a new challenge in Elderly Care and Frailty?

We’re seeking an experienced clinical pharmacist to join our Elderly Care and Frailty Team. You’ll help deliver a high‑quality clinical pharmacy service to our Elderly Care Wards and Departments.

You will work across our Elderly Care Wards and support the development of the clinical service to our Frailty Emergency Assessment Unit and Frailty Same Day Emergency Care, at our Royal Stoke University Hospital site, supporting admission avoidance and de-prescribing.

You’ll work closely with our multidisciplinary teams and with pharmacy colleagues across both UHNM sites, benefiting from extensive training, development, research, and networking opportunities. You’ll also train and support the development of junior pharmacists completing Elderly Care and Frailty rotations.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has proven experience in delivering evidence‑based, cost‑effective pharmaceutical care
• Can support team development and contribute to financial and risk management
• Is enthusiastic about improving the care of older adults

Main duties of the job

Utilise expert pharmaceutical knowledge to manage elderly & frail patients.

• Utilise the independent prescriber skill daily within your scope of practice (or work towards obtaining).
• Provide prescriber support for complex medicine regimes e.g. gentamicin, vancomycin, aminophylline infusions.
• Support flow with efficient discharge medication supply routes in and out of hours.
• Review adverse incident reports and educate medical and nursing teams on pharmaceutical issues to lessen risk.
• Review and develop guidelines and PGDs. Develop cost improvement initiatives.
• Train, develop and line manage junior and trainee pharmacists.
• Work with the Advanced Clinical Lead Pharmacist for Medicine on the strategic development of the clinical pharmacy service.

Please see attached job description and personal specification for further information.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further duties about this role please contact Daniel  or Vikki as detailed below, further detailed can also be found in the attached job description and person specification