Specialist Pharmacist - Frailty

Job overview

Specialist Pharmacist-Frailty

Division: Cancer & Core Clinical Services

Care Group: Diagnostics & Clinical Support Services

Band: 8a

Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum/pro rata

Interview Date: Week Commencing 26th May 2025

We are recruiting for a Specialist Pharmacist-Frailty  who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

The Frailty Directorate is undergoing as exciting expansion with the development of a Frailty 7-day Same-Day Emergency Care service and Rapid Access Care of the Elderly clinics. This role would be supporting the development of an Integrated Frailty Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Network.

We as a team are keen to focus on continuous improvement of our services for the benefit of our patients and welcome new ideas and opportunities.  We aim to continuously upskill and develop our workforce and currently pharmacy assistants on ward areas supporting with medicines management including dispensing on wards, and medication supply checks for discharges, improving safety and reducing waste.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As part of multi-disciplinary team within the frailty team providing a 7 day patient facing clinical service to support Medicines Optimisation within the trust in an exciting new Frailty Pathway, including partaking in research opportunities.

Providing safe and effective use of medicines to enable the best possible outcomes, reduce inappropriate polypharmacy & improve adherence and patients’ understanding of medicines

Together there will be structures to expand the team, work on improving patient flow and optimising patient care through medicines management across sectors. This will include involvement in post-take ward rounds, clinics and joining up care with our interface, Primary Care Network (PCN) and Medway & Swale Medicines Optimisation teams. The Clinical Pharmacy Frailty team also provide and deliver training, undertake clinical audit and service evaluations, contributing to service planning and development.

As part of the Clinical Pharmacy Frailty Team, you will be able to be get involved with critical projects developing the service and care for our patients across interfaces including the safe transfer of care around medicines.