Joint role - specialist frailty & pcn pharmacist

Joint Role – Specialist Frailty & PCN Pharmacist

Closing date: 28 June 2026.

With a particular focus on frailty, the Pharmacy team at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist medicines optimisation support and guidance to patients, carers, healthcare and social care staff across KCHFT and partner organisations. The joint post holder will support the service requirements as part of their role. Optimising a person's medicines ensures that they are taking their medicines as intended, using a person‑centred approach where shared decision‑making is an essential part of evidence‑based medicine and systems wide.

Main duties of the job

You will work on location at agreed Community Hospital sites across Kent and at GP Practices within West Kent ABC PCN, Maidstone, and remotely as agreed. This is an evolving and forward‑thinking service that supports the provision of safe and effective medicines optimisation services to cohorts of patients within these settings, with, where appropriate, an opportunity to follow patients across the Primary Care Interface into their normal place of residence.

Medicines Optimisation Strategy goals

• Understanding and improving patient, carers and staff experience
• Providing evidence‑based choice of medicines
• Ensuring medicines use is as safe as possible

The joint post holder will work within their clinical competencies using specialist pharmaceutical knowledge and skills to work with all stakeholders, measuring and monitoring medicines optimisation outcomes to improve and achieve the best possible outcome for every patient.

Outcomes from the goals

• Patients take cost‑effective, evidence‑based medicines safely
• Patients take only necessary medicines that they agree to take
• Patients are empowered to manage their medications independently
• Carers, health and social care staff are empowered to support patients to optimise medicines use
• Patients are supported through effective use of their medicines to stay at home and minimise hospital admissions and readmissions

About us

Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is passionate about delivering high standards of patient care and services to improve the health of our communities. We value compassion, aspiration, responsiveness and excellence, and we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences.

Driving and travel requirements

The role requires the holder to be able to drive to perform their duties. A full UK driving licence, or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non‑EU country), is essential. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team at kentchft.recruitment@nhs.net with your vacancy reference number so we can offer suitable arrangements.

Job responsibilities

Supported delivery of medicines optimisation services across community hospital sites and GP practices, including patient identification, medication review, education and training of healthcare professionals, social care staff, and patient groups. Worked within multidisciplinary teams, contributing to audit and project management activities, and extracted and presented data from Datix and ePACT2.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degree
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• CPPE Primary Care Education Pathway
• Postgraduate Clinical Diploma in Pharmacy

Experience

• Community, GP practice or hospital pharmacy experience
• Understanding of practical medicines management issues in community‑based services
• Experience delivering medicines optimisation with a patient‑centred approach
• Experience in education and training of healthcare professionals, social care staff and patient groups
• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams
• Audit and project management experience

Knowledge

• Clinical knowledge of medicines use in frailty and chronic diseases
• Knowledge of risk management and assurance issues relating to medicines use
• Knowledge of storage, use and disposal of pharmaceutical products in line with local and national policies
• Familiarity with evidence‑based medicine concepts
• Practical knowledge of Microsoft Windows/Office products
• Knowledge of legal and ethical pharmaceutical issues in community health services and GP services

Skills & abilities

• Proven clinical pharmacy skills
• Ability to work across primary, secondary, community and social care interfaces, including intermediate care
• Ability to extract and present data from Datix and ePACT2

Personal attributes

• Commitment to mandatory continual professional development (CPD)
• A full, valid UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non‑EU country) and ability to travel independently are essential for this role

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. A Disclosure and Barring Service check is required prior to appointment.

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515 a year (pro‑rata, per annum).

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full‑time

Reference number

846‑7930509‑TS‑A