Advanced Specialist Pharmacist, Hospital @ Home​/ Rapid Access Service

Advanced Specialist Pharmacist, Hospital @ Home/ Rapid Access Service

Company:

Company: CNWL NHS Foundation Trust

A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated pharmacist to join our innovative Hospital at Home and Rapid Access Service. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will provide expert medicines optimisation support for patients with complex healthcare needs being managed at home, helping to avoid hospital admissions and support timely discharge

You will be an experienced clinical pharmacist with:

• Significant experience in acute, community, intermediate care, virtual ward or Hospital at Home settings.
• Clinical expertise in frailty, polypharmacy and complex multimorbidity.
• Strong leadership, communication and service development skills.
• A passion for delivering high-quality care and improving patient outcomes.

This is an opportunity to shape and develop pharmacy services within an expanding Hospital at Home model, working across organisational boundaries to deliver safe, effective and person-centred care where patients want it most, in their own homes.

• Lead medicines optimisation for Hospital at Home patients and support the wider Rapid Access Service pathways.
• Deliver complex medication reviews, domiciliary assessments and prescribing support.
• Improve medicines safety, governance and transfer of care across acute, community and primary care services.
• Provide expert medicines advice and education to multidisciplinary teams.
• Lead medicines related audit, quality improvement and service development initiatives.

Support the development of innovative, patient-centred pharmacy services closer to home

Be the source of expert clinical advice for medicines information related queries & provide professional advice and support on the safe prescribing, handling and administration of medicines.

• Provision of information about medicines where evidence base islacking
• Promote safe, high quality, cost effective, evidence based prescribing
• Lead on medicines governance within delegated services, including reviewing medicines related incidents, formulating learning lessons & robust actions to reduce risks, conducting medicines related audits & key performance indicators.
• Manage complex medicines optimisation problems within the team and across the interface.
• Collaborate with internal and external agencies to improve and develop robust medicines optimisation pathways. This will include developing links with local ICBs, Local Authorities, primary and secondary healthcare providers to facilitate collaborative work on pharmaceutical issues.

This

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Company: CNWL NHS Foundation Trust Salary: £66,274 - £73,496 Pro rata per annum incl. HCAS

Hours:

Part-time

Location:

London, NW1 0PE
Job type:
Contract Posting date: 13 Aug 2026 Closing date: 12 Sept 2026

A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated pharmacist to join our innovative Hospital at Home and Rapid Access Service. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will provide expert medicines optimisation support for patients with complex healthcare needs being managed at home, helping to avoid hospital admissions and support timely discharge

You will be an experienced clinical pharmacist with:

• Significant experience in acute, community, intermediate care, virtual ward or Hospital at Home settings.
• Clinical expertise in frailty, polypharmacy and complex multimorbidity.
• Strong leadership, communication and service development skills.
• A passion for delivering high‑quality care and improving patient outcomes.

This is an opportunity to shape and develop pharmacy services within an expanding Hospital at Home model, working across organisational boundaries to deliver safe, effective and person‑centred care where patients want it most, in their own homes.

Main duties

• Lead medicines optimisation for Hospital at Home patients and support the wider Rapid Access Service pathways.
• Deliver complex medication reviews, domiciliary…