Clinical Pharmacist - Care Homes and Frailty
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a clinically skilled pharmacist to support the Care Homes & Frailty Pharmacy Service across Lambeth and Southwark. The post holder will provide clinical expertise for older adults living with frailty, focusing on safe and effective medicines use in care-home and community settings. Responsibilities include improving medicines optimisation, strengthening multidisciplinary working, and contributing to service development through audit and quality improvement. Regular mentorship and clinical supervision will be provided to support specialist knowledge development.
Essential criteria
- Registered member of GPhC
- Postgraduate Certificate or Diploma or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Qualified non-medical prescriber
- Specialist training, qualification or education in the care of older people
- Working within multidisciplinary teams across primary, community or social care
- Undertaking medication reviews in older people including adherence support and deprescribing
- Delivering direct pharmaceutical care to patients with long term conditions and frailty
- Delivering training to care home staff or community teams or non-pharmacy teams
- Developing and undertaking audits
- Experience working across integrated care settings (PCNs, GP practices, community services and social care)
- Experience managing patients independently (e.g., polypharmacy clinics, anticoagulation clinics, frailty pathways)
- Demonstrable knowledge, skills and ability to undertake clinical screening and medicines reconciliation
- Demonstrable experience of clinically influencing at senior level e.g. ward rounds or MDT meetings
- Understands primary and secondary care working and organisational structures in relation to the ageing population
- Understands the effects of ageing on drug handling and medicines use
- Understands pharmacy and medicines risks in older people living with frailty, polypharmacy, multimorbidity and the role of pharmacy to mitigate those risks
- Understands national policies and the context around managing long term conditions, case management and reducing unnecessary hospital admissions in the NHS and their implication for medicines management
- Ability to provide high-quality clinical advice and communicate complex pharmacy issues that may be frequently challenged
- Willingness to tackle difficult issues as well as challenge practices and systems that lead to sub-optimal use of medicines
- Highly developed communication, interpersonal, negotiating and influencing skills
- Able to recognise limitations and scope of their practice and know when to escalate matters appropriately
- Ability to make important decisions in pressured situations.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £58,133 – £65,261 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 10d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Pharmacist - Care Homes and Frailty
The closing date is 16 September 2026
Job summary
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a clinically skilled pharmacist to support the Care Homes & Frailty Pharmacy Service across Lambeth and Southwark. The post holder will contribute to the safe and effective use of medicines for older adults living with frailty, providing clinical expertise across care-home and community settings.
The role centres on improving medicines optimisation processes, strengthening multidisciplinary working, and supporting consistent, person-centred care across the frailty pathway. The post holder will contribute to service development through audit, guideline work and quality-improvement activity, ensuring alignment with local and national priorities.
Regular mentorship and clinical supervision will be provided by senior pharmacists within the service, supporting the development of specialist knowledge in frailty therapeutics and progression towards senior practice. The position requires a motivated clinician with strong communication skills, sound clinical judgement and the ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries.
Interviews planned for: w/c 5th October
**Please note: we are advertising for 3 positions in total. 2 x Band 8a positions at 0.6WTE and 1 x Band
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