Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Pharmacist - Older People's Medicine
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Job Overview
Lead Pharmacist 8A – Older People's Medicine
Full-time | Permanent
Are you an experienced and forward-thinking pharmacist looking for your next leadership opportunity in a specialist clinical role? Frimley Health is seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, and highly skilled pharmacist to join our dynamic Older People's Medicine team as a Band 8A Lead Pharmacist.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred pharmaceutical care within Older People's Medicine, while providing expert clinical leadership across the Trust.
Based at Wexham Park Hospital, this post also carries cross-site responsibilities, offering the chance to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and influence service delivery on a wider scale.
To Be Successful In This Role, You Should Have
- A Postgraduate Clinical Diploma (or equivalent).
- Independent Prescribing qualification.
- Significant post-registration clinical pharmacy experience.
- A commitment to continuing professional development and advancing practice within Older People's Medicine.
- The ability to provide expert advice, lead service improvement, and support the development of pharmacy practice within the speciality.
Main Duties of the Job
- To develop the clinical pharmacy service to patients within the specialist area.
- To provide clinical pharmacy services to patients within the specialist areas.
- To act as a role model in the field of clinical pharmacy practice and provide a consistently high standard of clinical service in line with the pharmacy objectives.
- To support the recruitment, management and development of staff under the postholder.
- To work closely with the senior pharmacists, clinicians, nursing staff and other senior managers to develop pharmaceutical services to patients within the directorate.
- To ensure close relations cross-site with the Older People's Medicine team at Frimley Park Hospital.
- To attend ward rounds / clinics when appropriate and able.
- Provide a clinical pharmacy service to specialised areas and a clinical pharmacy service to cover other areas when ward cover is needed.
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Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme.
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We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Pharmacy degree (Masters level 4 years)
- Registered with GPhC
- Postgraduate clinical diploma or equivalent
- Independent Prescriber (or intention to become one)
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
Desirable criteria
- MSc or higher degree
- UKCPA membership
- RPS membership
- Formal management qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of producing guidelines
- Experience of producing drug appraisals
- Experience of managing staff
- Significant post-qualification experience working as a pharmacist in a clinical environment.
Desirable criteria
- Regular experience of providing clinical pharmacy support
- Clinical audit experience.
- Teaching/tutoring experience
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
- Applied clinical knowledge
- Ability to adapt and cope with challenges
- Organisational skills
Desirable criteria
- Excellent IT skills
- Evidence of interest in research
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future.
We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.
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Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
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