Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacist
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 270-TG263-CORP
- Employer
- Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Spinneyfields
- Town
- Rushden
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Advanced Pharmacist Elderly Care, Rehabilitation and Frailty
Band 8a
Job overview
Are you looking for a rewarding and dynamic role where you can apply your knowledge, contribute to patient safety and be part of a multi-disciplinary team?
NHFT is looking for an experienced clinical pharmacist to support the delivery of a clinical pharmacy service to Spinneyfields and Turn Furlong inpatient units.
Spinneyfields provides accommodation for people requiring health and social care recovery and rehabilitation, delivered through a multi-disciplinary team employed by NHFT in a recovering independence unit.
NHFT are the lead provider for the RIBU, collaborating with West Northants Council. The service offers support for people with an need for rehabilitation, recuperation and/or assessment; subject to the screening criteria for the service being met. It is anticipated that admissions will primarily come from acute hospital discharge (Pathway 2 as described in national Discharge to Assess guidance), either following an acute stay in hospital or being stepped out from an emergency attendance to avoid admission to hospital.
This is a varied role with the successful applicant needing to work independently and within the pharmacy team. They will have their own clinical responsibilities which will contribute to the healthcare team and support the pharmacist attending the wards. Travel between sites will be necessary and you must be able to travel independently to other bases in the Trust across Northamptonshire.
Main duties of the job
As the Advanced Pharmacist Elderly Care, Rehabilitation and Frailty your duties will include:
• To develop and deliver on-site clinical pharmacy services to Spinneyfields and Turn Furlong and consider and potentially implement the role of pharmacist prescribing in this area
• To undertake medicines reviews as needed to rationalise complex regimes
• To be responsible for leading, delivering and evaluating clinical pharmacy services to patients within Spinneyfields and Turn Furlong
• To provide a clinical pharmacy service to Spinneyfields and Turn Furlong inpatient areas
• Where a prescribing qualification is held, to make changes to prescribed medication within agreed competence as required and monitor the patient’s progress.
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered with GPhC as a Pharmacist
- MPharm degree, or equivalent pharmacy qualification
- Post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy (or equivalent level of knowledge and experience)
- Evidence of recent continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Independent prescriber
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post registration experience within the NHS setting
- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of planning, implementing, analysing, reporting and changing practice through audit
- Experience of teaching, mentoring and tutoring
- Experience of planning, implementing, analysing, reporting and changing practice through audit
- Experience of data collection, analysis and report writing
Desirable criteria
- Experience of prescribing within a specialty to optimise medicines for specific patient groups
- Management qualification relevant to the NHS
- Experience of developing and implementing medicines management policies and procedures
- Experience of managing staff
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Natalie Fasham
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07730 192717
- Additional information
This is an exciting opportunity to join a friendly, innovative, and supportive Pharmacy Department, so for further details please contact Natalie Fasham, Deputy Chief Pharmacist on 07730192717 or email [email protected] or Dawn Watts, Head of Service - Adult Community Inpatients [email protected]
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