Primary Care Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist
We are seeking an experienced Pharmacist, with experience in primary care to join our multidisciplinary healthcare team at HMP Wymott and HMP Garth.
This role focuses on delivering high-quality pharmaceutical care in prisons, ensuring the safe, effective, and appropriate use of medicines.
You will play a crucial part in managing medication for patients with complex needs, supporting health promotion, and providing expert clinical advice to both patients and healthcare staff. Working in line with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) Professional Standards for Optimising Medicines in Secure Environments (2017), the role requires a collaborative approach to improve health outcomes through patient-centered care, effective communication, and active involvement in medicines optimisation.
As a Primary Care Pharmacist in a secure setting, you will uphold the principles outlined in the RPS standards, including ensuring the safe prescribing, administration, and monitoring of medicines.
Key responsibilities include managing medicines reconciliation, supporting risk management, and delivering education on the appropriate use of medication within this unique population.
Additionally, you will contribute to reducing health inequalities by addressing specific challenges faced in secure environments.
Your role will help support the safe, timely, and equitable access to essential medicines, in line with the RPS standards and best practices in prison healthcare.
Main duties of the job
* To contribute to the development and delivery of primary healthcare within the health and justice division ensuring that prescribing and medicines management standards are in accordance with national policies and guidelines for offender health and the Trust’s medicines management strategy.
* To carry out medication review clinics including structured medication reviews (SMRs) and making prescribing and deprescribing decisions to optimise patient's medication regimens.
* To provide complex medicines management advice to patients, healthcare professionals, prison staff and external agencies that have involvement in patients care.
* To develop excellent working relationships with GPs, consultants, NMPs, mental health and substance misuse providers and to ensure that prescribing decisions support the work of all involved in the patients care.
* To ensure effective communication with patients about changes in their medication. Overcome barriers to understanding and communication with patients who have physical, mental, social, language, hearing or sight problems.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Pharmacist registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Evidence of post-qualification training e.g. Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or CPPE Primary Care Pathway.
* Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification.
* CPPE Providing pharmacy services for secure environments (2023).
* Clinical Skills module/ training course.
Experience
* Experience in long-term condition management.
* Experience of delivering a clinical pharmacy service including prescribing, de-prescribing and managing polypharmacy.
* Experience of using System One.
* Experience of working in a prison as a pharmacist.
* Experience of working in substance misuse/mental health.
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.
£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum pro rata.
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