Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Pharmacist - Care Homes and Frailty
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Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
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.
About the Role
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.
Responsibilities
- Provide clinical pharmacy input across care homes, community settings, and primary care interfaces in Lambeth and Southwark.
- Undertake medicines reconciliation, structured medication reviews, and targeted optimisation interventions for older adults living with frailty.
- 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.
- Contribute to improving medicines systems within care homes, including reviewing processes and supporting implementation of best practice.
- Participate in audit and quality-improvement activity.
- Contribute to guideline and SOP development.
- Deliver training to registered and non-registered staff.
- Take part in MDT discussions and case reviews to support coordinated, person-centred care.
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Requirements
- Motivated clinician with strong communication skills.
- Sound clinical judgement.
- Ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries.
About Us
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.
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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.
Application Details
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.
For further information on the role and its requirements, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.
Contact
For further details / informal visits, contact:
Name: Sakina Jadawji
Job title: Lead Pharmacist - Care Homes and Frailty
Email address: s.jadawji@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07787401168
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