A Vacancy at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust.
We are recruiting for a Pharmacist Advanced-Frailty & Elderly Care Medicine who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
With this role, you will be working closely with Consultants, Nurses, Therapists, and other healthcare professionals to provide an excellent clinical pharmacy service to these areas. Your expertise is vital to improving clinical outcomes and enhancing the quality of life for our frail and elderly patient population.
Additionally, there will be opportunities to work with the senior pharmacy team to plan, develop and deliver the Trust's patient pathways within frailty and elderly care.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
The post holder will lead the clinical pharmacy service for frailty and elderly care medicine at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Teaching Trust in order to ensure clinically effective, safe and cost efficient use of drugs.
You will support the Pharmacist Team Leader for Unplanned Care (Medicine) to drive forward the medicines optimisation of patients within frailty and elderly care wards and in admission areas.
You will also aim to resolve highly complex pharmaceutical issues and provide balanced reviews of medicines used in frailty and elderly care medicine.
The successful candidate will provide expert pharmaceutical advice on issues across the organisation, analysing a range of highly complex facts.
You will liaise with consultants, nurses and allied healthcare professionals regarding pharmaceutical matters in the emergency department and on frailty wards and admission areas.
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see attached Job Description and person specification, which also details the main responsibilities.
This advert closes on Monday 1 Sep 2025
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