Job summary

The Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) West Haringey service, delivered by Whittington Health, provides proactive, multidisciplinary healthcare support to residents living in care homes across West Haringey. The service is designed to improve residents' health, wellbeing, and quality of life by delivering high-quality, personalised healthcare within care home settings and reducing avoidable hospital admissions.

The EHCH model brings together a multidisciplinary team that includes a Community Matron, Consultant Geriatrician, Pharmacist, Trusted Assessor (Nurse), Learning Disability Community Matron, and administrative support staff. The team works closely with GP practices, care home staff, residents, families, and other healthcare professionals to provide coordinated and holistic care.

The service supports residents in West Haringey care homes, including Spring Lane, The Meadow, Alexandra Park, and Fairview, while also working collaboratively with learning disability and mental health services across Haringey.

The overall aim of the EHCH West Haringey service is to ensure residents receive the right care, at the right time, in the right place, promoting independence, enhancing quality of life, reducing health inequalities, and preventing unnecessary hospital attendances and admissions.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

The Pharmacist will support medication reviews and optimisation for those who meet the referral criteria face to face at the residential homes.

A medication review will involve the completion of an SMR tailored to the needs of the resident with their involvement. The EHCH Pharmacist will proactively promote safe and evidence-based prescribing with the nominated general practitioners.

The EHCH Pharmacist will be involved in de-prescribing where required, ensuring safe and effective reduction of stopping inappropriate medicines together with the allocated GP's

The Pharmacist will support local care partners to provide care to elderly patients in community and engage in new projects. The pharmacist will participate in audits, to implement cost-effectiveness.

To work in collaboration with the GPs, consultant geriatricians and the wider multidisciplinary team to provide holistic medication reviews.

To support local care partners (such as GP federations, Primary Care Networks and community pharmacy colleagues) provide care to elderly patients in the care homes, if required.

Demonstration of an understanding of the specific clinical aspects of medicines management, in this clinical frailty speciality.

To support implementation of national guidance in medicines management for older people in the care homes with complex pharmaceutical care needs.

Details

• Date posted: 02 November 2026
• Closing date: 16 November 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 7
• Salary: £58,133 to £65,261 a year Per Annum (Pro Rata) Including HCAS
• Contract: Fixed term
• Duration: 12 months
• Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
• Reference number: 220-WHT-8391732
• Job locations: Hornsey Rise Group Health Centre, Hornsey Rise, Islington, N19 3NY, United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To be responsible for maintaining a personal high standard of clinical practice.

2. To maintain and develop knowledge of evidence-based practice and own competencies through CPD activities (e.g. peer review, in-service training, journal club, external courses), maintaining a portfolio, which reflects personal development in line with GPhC.

3. To use clinical information to help inform clinical decision making, bringing together a range of complex information to formulate diagnoses or care plans.

4. To work within any professional or Trust clinical guidelines, maintain knowledge of current clinical practice and of national and local standards, and to ensure own and colleagues safe and competent practice.

5. To develop treatment goals/care plans, working in partnership with patients, their families or carers and other members of the multi-disciplinary team, and to communicate these effectively.

6. To have a working understanding of the Mental Capacity Act and be confident in assessing a persons capacity to make decisions relating to their medications. (Support will be provided for training if needed).

7. To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills to communicate complex or sensitive information in a way that patients and others can understand, overcoming barriers to communication e.g. cognitive problems, language barriers, and using motivational skills to ensure participation.

8. To maintain accurate clinical records in accordance with Trust and professional standards, and to ensure that staff in the team maintain clinical records to these standards.

9. To provide verbal and written reports as required, for people both internal and external to the organisation.

10. To be responsible for updating and developing patient medication assessment, treatment and monitoring tools when required.

11. To provide clinical advice and to make recommendations on prescribing issues to patients GPs and hospital clinicians in accordance with local policy and guidelines and the requirements of medicines legislation.

12. To provide relevant education and training to Whittington staff.

Person Specification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Has experience of multidisciplinary (MDT) working
• Has up to date clinical knowledge of complex care and long-term conditions
• Previous experience of working in elderly care
• Experience of developing clinical policies/guidelines

Desirable

• Is able to engage in the strategic development of the service
• Experience in delivery of frailty service to older people
• Has experience of carrying out comprehensive medication reviews for patients in their own homes.
• Previous participation in audit/research
• Experience of line management/ team leadership

Education & Qualifications

Essential

• MPharm degree or equivalent
• Relevant professional qualification and current registration as a pharmacist
• Completion of a certificate in Pharmacy Practice / Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent

Desirable

• Completion of, at least, a post graduate diploma qualification in General Pharmacy Practice / Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent
• Independent Prescriber

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload
• Ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities
• Competent in IT and has the ability to learn new operating systems and software packages
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, written and oral
• Confident, self-motivated and energetic
• Ability to interpret local or national guidance and translate them to front line clinical practice
• Experience of providing education and training to pharmacy and nursing staff, doctors and other AHPs

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Demonstrates an interest in the providing quality care to frail older people
• Evidence of and commitment to own personal development
• Demonstrate an understating of and commitment to equal opportunities and equal access
• Able to work flexibly to meet service needs

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Employer details

• Employer name: Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
• Address: Hornsey Rise Group Health Centre, Hornsey Rise, Islington, N19 3NY, United Kingdom
• Employer's website: https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/