Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
9 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Education and Training
Minimum Bachelor or Masters ( BPharm or MPharm) Degree in Pharmacy and further relevant post-graduate qualifications.
- Education and Training
Evidence of relevant continuing professional development.
- Education and Training
Undertaken training for clinical therapeutics to specialist level e.g. National Prescribing Centre therapeutic training.
- Education and Training
Pharmacist, registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of working within primary care.
- Knowledge and Experience
Proven experience of planning, organising a broad range of complex activities in line with strategic plans.
- Knowledge and Experience
Training in Microsoft Office e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
- Knowledge and Experience
Proven experience of provision, collection, analysis, processing synthesis and communicating highly complex data.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of leading and developing clinical audit and research.
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Education and Training
Non-medical prescribing qualification (or willing to undertake study).
- Education and Training
Experience of non-medical prescribing.
Job overview
As a member of Spectrum Community Health the post holder will be responsible for delivering a pharmacy service at HMP Humber in line with GPhC standards and recommendations outlined in “A pharmacy service for prisoners” and ‘Safer Prescribing in Prisons’. This will involve the overall organisation, planning and co-ordination of all pharmacy services on-site. The post holder will work with the Medicines Management Pharmacist, other Spectrum Specialist Prison Pharmacists, Lead GP, other GPs and the prisons to ensure prison pharmacy services are of the highest quality and successfully integrated into Spectrum Community Health. In line with the well-being model of healthcare the post holder, through a partnership approach, will also help patients to optimise their medicines by tailoring medicines and support to the individual patient needs. They will also identify unmet pharmaceutical need, and assist in improving access and service efficiency including a reduction in wasted medicines.
Main duties of the job
Please see Job description and person specification.
To strategically plan, organise, co-ordinate staff and deliver pharmacy services at HMP Humber. To ensure that pharmaceutical care is consistently delivered in accordance with the Medicines Act, GPhC guidance, Commissioner service specification and in line with recommendations outlined in “A pharmacy service for prisoners” and "Safer Prescribing for Prisoners".
In addition, the post-holder will be responsible for encouraging the development of better medicines management understanding throughout the wider healthcare team and Prison Team and promote good practice in line with therapeutic developments in all prescribing decisions. This will involve assisting the Prison Health Care team in achieving NSF targets, NICE implementation, medicines management initiatives and the introduction of electronic prescribing.
The job holder will be expected to work across the sites in the North East when required.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details on the advertised role.
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.
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This advert is for Bank Pharmacist - HMP Humber with Spectrum Community Health CIC in Everthorpe, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £29.90 - £39.48 per hour. The contract type is Bank. The application deadline is 15 Sep 2026.
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