Clinical Pharmacist – Care Homes and Frailty

Overview

In this role you will support medicines optimisation for older adults living with frailty across care homes and community settings. You will work within a multidisciplinary team to improve prescribing safety and implement standardised care pathways. You will contribute to service development through audits, guidelines, and quality improvement, with mentorship from senior pharmacists. This is a clinically focused post centered on person‑centred care and inter-organisational collaboration to reduce medicines-related risk.

Responsibilities

• Medicines reconciliation across care homes, community settings and primary care interfaces
• Structured medication reviews and targeted optimisation for older adults with frailty
• Collaborate with GPs, geriatricians, pharmacy technicians and social care teams to mitigate medicines risks
• Deprescribing and safe prescribing practices; ensure clear pharmaceutical care plans
• Improve medicines systems in care homes and support implementation of best practice
• Participate in audits and quality improvement; develop guidelines and SOPs
• Deliver training to care home staff, community teams and non-pharmacy staff
• Participate in MDT discussions and case reviews to ensure coordinated care across pathways

Key requirements

• Registered member of GPhC
• Postgraduate Certificate or Diploma or equivalent experience
• Desirable: Qualified non-medical prescriber
• Specialist training/education in care of older people (desirable)
• Experience in multidisciplinary teams across primary, community or social care
• Medication reviews in older people including adherence support and deprescribing
• 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

• High-quality clinical advisory ability
• Strong communication and negotiation skills
• Influencing skills and ability to challenge sub-optimal practices
• Clinical screening and medicines reconciliation
• Structured medication reviews
• Deprescribing and medication optimisation

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