# Specialist Clinical Pharmacist Frailty > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-clinical-pharmacist-frailty/cd2cea7f-c68f-4976-9fcc-77f6d7f13dd6 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-clinical-pharmacist-frailty/cd2cea7f-c68f-4976-9fcc-77f6d7f13dd6.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Ashford - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Pharmacist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 pro rata, per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-29T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-03T13:30:55.510Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/Ashford/Kent_Community_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Medicines_Management/Medicines_Management-v8010955 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8010955?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kentcht.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Medway Community Healthcare. Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses. 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 - 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 ### 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. 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 \[email protected\], 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. Find out more about the community difference here. Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity. ## Job Details Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Medway Community Healthcare. Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses. 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. ## Job Description 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 ## 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 \[email protected\], 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. Find out more about the community difference here. Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity. ## Person Specification ### Working Environment **Essential** - 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. ### 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 ### 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) ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 536.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10296529) - [staff privacy notice (pdf, 528.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2665) - [kchft values into action (pdf, 440.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=479) - [staff journey illustration (pdf, 2.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2277) - [a guide to completing your application (pdf, 296.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2025) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.