Lead Frailty Pharmacist - Enablement

Job overview

KCHFT is offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced Pharmacist who has recently worked within multidisciplinary teams to support patients living with frailty. We are looking for a Pharmacist with either hospital or primary care experience who is passionate about improving pharmacy services to support patients to live well at home

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for leading the pharmacy frailty enablement teams within the community hospitals and domiciliary settings. These are currently 2 teams of pharmacists, technicians and pharmacy support workers, one within each setting.

You will have responsibility for developing and implementing an integrated clinical pharmacy frailty service within these settings, ensuring that the team work to the same aims irrespective of the setting, with a patient and MDT centred focus.

You will develop collaborative relationships with internal KCHFT clinicians and frailty service leads to understand where the team can add most value.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able 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 [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

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.

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It is important to us that all our staff are aligned to our Values and in particular the behaviours we expect from KCHFT managers. With this in mind as part of the selection process for this position you will be asked to complete two other activities in addition to the competency-based interview that you will invited to. This extended selection process is designed to assess your management style and the specific details of the exercises will be given if you are successfully shortlisted.