Lead Prison Pharmacist - BSGW Region

Job overview

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?

This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Pharmacist to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.

Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patient’s future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.

This position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.

**Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.**

Main duties of the job

The Lead Prison Pharmacist will be responsible for the development, management and delivery of safe, effective and high-quality pharmacy services across the Bristol prison cluster. The post holder will provide professional leadership to pharmacy teams, ensure compliance with medicines legislation and governance requirements, and act as a Responsible Person for the Wholesale Dealer’s Licence.

• Lead and manage pharmacy services across HMP Bristol, HMP Ashfield, HMP Erlestoke and HMP Leyhill.
• Ensure safe, legal and effective medicines management across the prison cluster.
• Provide professional, clinical and managerial leadership to pharmacy staff.
• Oversee medicines governance, including controlled drugs, formulary management, incident reporting and risk reduction.
• Ensure services meet statutory, professional, Trust and contractual requirements.
• Support staff development, training, supervision and performance management.
• Work closely with healthcare, prison, commissioner and external partners to improve service quality.
• Act as Responsible Person for the Wholesale Dealer’s Licence, ensuring compliance with Good Distribution Practice.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key tasks and responsibilities

• To manage and supervise the Pharmacy service and ensure that it is compliant with statutory controls, professional requirements, and local/national policies and guidance on medicines.
• To be responsible for ensuring the safety and quality of the pharmacy service provided to Bristol cluster of Prisons.
• To ensure the service meets the high standards of quality as defined by the service specification and if services are noted to fall short of these requirements, to take the necessary actions to improve services to meet these requirements.
• To lead on Medicines Management within the Bristol Prison cluster, including the development and implementation of a formulary, and to report into the Trust Medicines Management committee via the OPS Chief Pharmacist, to ensure consistency across all services provided by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.
• To ensure that robust systems are in place for managing prescribed medicines that have the potential to be abused, such as Controlled Drugs.
• To be responsible for the procurement of medicines against agreed NHS PASA contracts and to ensure appropriate stockholding for the department.
• To ensure all medicines are procured according to Trust standing financial instructions and standing orders and in accordance with relevant medicines legislation, public procurement law, national guidance and local Standing Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• To provide managerial support and advice, and professional, legal and clinical supervision of the prison pharmacy staff as required.
• To ensure timely reports on the use and cost of medicines are provided to the finance department, the Chief Pharmacist, and the Commissioners as required.
• To ensure health care professionals and offenders are provided with clinically sound, evaluated medicines information. This will include signposting to appropriate services as required.
• To support staff in their personal development and to ensure all staff are suitably qualified for the tasks they undertake.
• To undertake any other relevant duties, as may be required by the Chief Pharmacist

Wholesale Dealers License – Duties of the Responsible Person (RP)

• To be a RP for the purposes of the WDL and ensure GDP compliance in the pharmacy store. Responsibilities include:-

a. Ensuring that a quality management system is implemented and maintained.

b. Focusing on the management of authorised activities and accuracy and quality of records.

c. Ensuring that initial and continuous training programs are implemented and maintained.

d. Co-ordinating and promptly performing any recall operations for medicinal products.

e. Ensuring that relevant customer complaints are dealt with effectively.

f. Ensuring suppliers and customers are approved.

g. Ensuring that self-inspections are performed at appropriate regular intervals following a pre-arranged programme and that necessary corrective measures are put in place.

h. Keeping appropriate records of any delegated duties (duties, but not responsibilities, can be delegated).

• i. Deciding on the final disposition of returned, rejected, recalled or falsified products. j. Approving any returns to saleable stock.

k. Ensuring that any additional requirements imposed on certain products by national law are adhered to.

• To be continuously contactable during working hours.
• To sign off all standing operating procedures.

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.