Pharmacist

As a Regional Pharmacist, your responsibilities will vary. You will;

• Work as part of the Yorkshire regional team, leading on the delivery of integrated, safe, high quality and effective pharmacy services  
• You will provide aspirational professional leadership for regional pharmacists, technicians and pharmacy assistants providing expert advice and guidance, promoting best practice in medication use on sites, embedding clinical supervision and ensuring adherence to policies and procedures and statutory frameworks.
• You will chair regional medicines management meetings, working closely with the regional lead nurse and regional medical lead and ensure all regional legal requirements are met in relation to medicines management.
• Provide expert clinical advice on medicines and poly-pharmacy in line with expected standards, ensuring that safe, modern, medicines management and medicines optimisation service are provided to patients.
• You will engage in clinical audits, review drug related incidents and conduct assessments and evaluations to support sites to improve pharmacy provision.
• Deliver an integrated, safe, legal and high quality prison pharmacy service, which will be part of a comprehensive healthcare package based on the prison population needs.
  

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We’re the UK’s leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.

Practice Plus Group’s purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:

• we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
• we act with integrity
• we embrace diversity
• we strive to do things better together

We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.

Qualifications required

• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Vocational Master’s Degree in Pharmacy including pre-registration training
• Relevant post qualification and evidence of continuing professional development
• Ability to work effectively across a number of sites providing education, supervision and leadership to teams and colleagues to support service improvement
• Knowledge and application of clinical governance and clinical audit
• Experience of running an effective and responsive pharmacy service
  

Although not essential ideal applicants would have experience in a hospital, community or prison environment.