Advanced Specialist Pharmacist – Elderly Care & Frailty
The closing date is 29 May 2026
Are you a pharmacist looking for a new challenge in Elderly Care and Frailty? We’re seeking an experienced clinical pharmacist to join our Elderly Care and Frailty Team. You’ll help deliver a high‑quality clinical pharmacy service to our Elderly Care Wards and Departments.
You will work across our Elderly Care Wards and support the development of the clinical service to our Frailty Emergency Assessment Unit and Frailty Same Day Emergency Care at our Royal Stoke University Hospital site, supporting admission avoidance and de‑prescribing.
You’ll work closely with our multidisciplinary teams and with pharmacy colleagues across both UHNM sites, benefiting from extensive training, development, research, and networking opportunities. You’ll also train and support the development of junior pharmacists completing Elderly Care and Frailty rotations.
We’re looking for someone who:
* Has proven experience in delivering evidence-based, cost‑effective pharmaceutical care
* Can support team development and contribute to financial and risk management
* Is enthusiastic about improving the care of older adults
Main duties of the job
* Utilise expert pharmaceutical knowledge to manage elderly & frail patients.
* Utilise the independent prescriber skill daily within your scope of practice (or work towards obtaining).
* Provide prescriber support for complex medicine regimes e.g. gentamicin, vancomycin, aminophylline infusions.
* Support flow with efficient discharge medication supply routes in and out of hours.
* Review adverse incident reports and educate medical and nursing teams on pharmaceutical issues to lessen risk.
* Review and develop guidelines and PGDs; develop cost improvement initiatives.
* Train, develop and line manage junior and trainee pharmacists.
* Work with the Advanced Clinical Lead Pharmacist for Medicine on the strategic development of the clinical pharmacy service.
Please see attached job description and personal specification for further information.
Qualifications
* Master’s degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
* Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
* Postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma / MSc or equivalent Qualification
* Independent Prescriber with appropriate annotation on GPhC Register (or willing to undertake)
* Formal management and / or leadership qualification
Experience
* Extensive hospital pharmacy experience
* Comprehensive experience as a clinical pharmacist practitioner including a solid grounding in a broad range of clinical specialties.
* Education and training experience including supervision and appraisal of junior staff and students.
* Have recent clinical pharmacy experience in Elderly Care and Frailty.
* Evidence of involvement in pharmacy practice research.
* Publication of research in a peer‑reviewed journal / presentation at a national conference.
* Experience of managing a team; management experience and/ or experience of undertaking appraisals.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust
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