Principal Pharmacist, Frailty and Community Hospitals

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team as the Principal Pharmacist, Frailty and Community Hospitals. The successful candidate will join the multi-disciplinary teams, working on a new frailty unit at Epsom General Hospital, and Community Hospital sites at Dorking Community Hospital and Molesey Hospital.

Mary Seacole Unit is a community-facing frailty unit based within Epsom General Hospital. The unit supports patients who have Frailty, complex needs and/or rehabilitation needs and offers enhanced Multidisciplinary team support in order to support the patients' transition of care back to their place of residence as soon as possible. The Community Hospitals provide care for people needing rehabilitation. They aim is to help patients return to living independently, or with care or other support.

As the pharmacist in the teams you will lead on medicines management on the wards. You will provide advanced pharmaceutical knowledge of frailty and polypharmacy. You will also conduct in-depth, personalised and goal orientated medication reviews with patients to improve understanding of medicines, address adherence issues and reduce inappropriate polypharmacy. Ensuring seamless transfer of pharmaceutical care across interfaces will also be a key part of the role.

If you are a motivated, autonomous individual who enjoys direct working with patients and being part of an MDT then this is the role for you.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to the frailty unit in conjunction with other clinical and junior pharmacists.

• Providing a well-integrated, comprehensive, patient-oriented specialist clinical pharmacy service at ward level throughout the frailty unit and SDHC Community Hospital wards

• To provide advice and day to day clinical supervision for the pharmacy team working in the frailty unit and community hospital sites, promoting evidence-based, cost-effective use of medicines

• To promote safe, responsible, cost effective prescribing and usage of medicines, in line with the formulary, to optimise clinical outcomes and minimise adverse reactions and errors.

• To liaise with appropriate MDT colleagues to ensure the implementation of National/Local guidelines related to medicines to optimise patient care and promote best practice.
• Combining pharmaceutical expertise and technical skills to proactively support patient centred medicine

About us

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about ESTH and SDHC.