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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Clinical Pharmacist - Care Homes and Frailty
Accepting applications until: 16-Sep-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 16-Sep-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust - across all community based sites
- Tref
- London
- Cod post
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Cyflog
- £58,133 - £65,261 p.a. inc HCA
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Pharmacy
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
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 7 position at 1.0WTE. Individuals can apply for both vacancies if they wish.
Advert
As a Care Homes and Frailty Pharmacist, you will provide clinical pharmacy input across care homes, community settings and primary care interfaces in Lambeth and Southwark. You will undertake medicines reconciliation, structured medication reviews and targeted optimisation interventions for older adults living with frailty.
You will work with pharmacy technicians, care‑home staff, GPs, geriatricians and adult social care teams to address medicines‑related risks, support safe prescribing and deprescribing, and ensure effective communication of pharmaceutical care plans. You will contribute to improving medicines systems within care homes, including reviewing processes and supporting implementation of best practice.
Your responsibilities will include participating in audit and quality‑improvement activity, contributing to guideline and SOP development, and delivering training to registered and non‑registered staff. You will take part in MDT discussions and case reviews to support coordinated, person‑centred care.
For further information on the role and its requirements please refer to attached job description and person specification documents.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts, providing specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
For further information on the role and its requirements please refer to attached job description and person specification documents.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on the UK Government website.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Registered member of GPhC
- Postgraduate Certificate or Diploma or equivalent experience
Meini prawf dymunol
- Qualified non-medical prescriber
- Specialist training, qualification or education in the care of older people
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- 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
Meini prawf dymunol
- 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)
Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- 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
Meini prawf dymunol
- 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
Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- 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.
Additional Information
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Self-sufficient in word processing, internet, PowerPoint, e-mail and spreadsheet use
- Able to communicate and work effectively and co-operatively with a wide range of people of different backgrounds and viewpoints
Documents
- Clinical Pharmacist - Care Homes and Frailty Job Description (PDF, 552.3KB)
- Clinical Pharmacist - Care Homes and Frailty Person Specification (PDF, 352.4KB)
- Clinical Pharmacist - Care Homes and Frailty Functional Requirements Form (PDF, 376.6KB)
- Care Homes & Frailty Pharmacy Service Redesign: Model, Roles and System Interfaces (PDF, 328.4KB)
- NICE Guidance - Managing Medicines in Care Homes (PDF, 199.1KB)
- National Overprescribing Review Report (PDF, 847.2KB)
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Sakina Jadawji
- Teitl y swydd
- Lead Pharmacist - Care Homes and Frailty
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 07787401168
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