Lead Pharmacist – Care Homes and Frailty
| Posting date: | 18 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £72,921.00 to £83,362.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £72921.00 - £83362.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 April 2026 |
| Location: | Streatham, London, SW16 2ST |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9196-26-0351 |
Summary
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