Prison Services Pharmacist

Job overview

You will lead medicines optimisation for patients with long-term and acute conditions, manage repeat prescribing, and deliver structured medication reviews and minor ailment clinics. Working closely with GPs, nurses, pharmacy colleagues, mental health and substance misuse teams, you will support the safe, effective and patient-centred use of medicines within a secure environment.

This is an excellent opportunity to use your clinical knowledge, leadership skills and commitment to service improvement while helping patients achieve better health outcomes.

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

Main duties of the job

• Coordinate and deliver structured medication review and minor ailment clinics.
• Manage repeat prescribing and reauthorisation through SystmOne.
• Provide medicines advice, adherence support and clinical reviews.
• Support patients with long-term conditions and high-risk medicines.
• Make evidence-based recommendations to prescribers.
• Support medicines governance, formulary management and clinical audits.
• Analyse medicines data and identify risks and areas for improvement.
• Provide education and training to pharmacy and healthcare colleagues.
• Undertake clinical screening and final accuracy checks when working in the dispensary.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team to identify patients at risk of medicine-related harm, optimise treatment and reduce avoidable hospital admissions. You will develop and maintain repeat prescribing procedures and searches within SystmOne, support long-term condition clinics and provide specialist pharmaceutical advice to healthcare professionals and patients.

The role includes contributing to clinical governance and medicines management committees, developing policies and procedures, completing audits, supporting public health initiatives and implementing improvements arising from national guidance and medicines safety alerts.

The successful candidate will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check and prison security vetting.

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.