Lead Pharmacist – Care Homes and Frailty | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 18 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £72,921 - £83,362 p.a. inc HCA (pro rata) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 17 April 2026 |
| Location: | Streatham, London, SW16 2ST |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7799651/196-LIS10370M |
Summary
We are seeking an experienced and forward‑thinking clinical pharmacist with advanced expertise in frailty, multi-morbidity, and polypharmacy to lead medicines optimisation for older adults across Lambeth and Southwark. As Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust hosts the pharmacy service for local care homes, this role provides both strategic oversight and expert clinical leadership for a system‑wide service spanningthe full continuum of frailty care, from acute hospital services to community pathways, care homes, and primary care, ensuring seamless and consistently high quality medicines optimisation for older adults wherever they receive care.
This position offers a clear development pathway towards consultant pharmacist practice, aligning with emerging consultant‑level standards. Working closely with the Consultant Pharmacist for Older People, the post holder will benefit from structured mentorship, shared leadership opportunities, and support to grow as an expert practitioner and influential system leader.
The role requires a highly motivated clinician with strong leadership skills, a passion for innovation, and the ability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
The successful candidate will provide senior leadership for the Care Homes and Frailty Pharmacy Team, ensuring high-quality, coordinated service delivery.
Through innovative care models and strong multidisciplinary collaboration, they will drive the development and continuous improvement of a patient‑centred medicines optimisation service that enhances safety, reduces medicines-related harm, and delivers exceptional outcomes for people living with frailty.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts, providing specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services.We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Job responsibilities
The post holder will provide expert medicines advice to care homes and frailty teams, acting as the senior point of contact for complex medication-related decisions. They will manage a caseload of older adults with complex needs, delivering comprehensive medication reviews and coordinating all medicines-related aspects of care. Working in partnership with GPs, community pharmacists, care home staff and multidisciplinary teams, they will deliver holistic, person-centred care using frailty-informed approaches and shared decision making.
The postholder will lead and support the frailty and care homes pharmacy team to deliver high-quality, safe and evidence-based prescribing and deprescribing, aligned with national and local guidance.
Using population health data, they will identify high-risk patients and implement targeted interventions to reduce medicines-related harm and avoidable hospital admissions. They will also contribute expert input into medicines policies, safety initiatives and CQC compliance, while driving quality improvement through audit, evaluation and monitoring of medicines optimisation practices.
The role includes working closely with commissioners and system partners to align medicines optimisation with wider strategic priorities, including reducing overprescribing, medicines waste, reducing health inequalities and unnecessary admissions.
The post holder will support innovative care models, safe hospital discharge pathways and prevention of avoidable admissions. In addition, contribute to training, research, service evaluation and policy development to advance best practice in frailty and care homes pharmacy
See the attached JD and PS for more details and the full range of duties
This advert closes on Friday 3 Apr 2026