Lead Pharmacist

Practice Plus Group; Lewes; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Lead Pharmacist for the Pharmacy team at a category B male prison in Lewes. This role involves managing a team and providing expert clinical advice ensuring safe medicines management. The position offers a salary up to £74,136 annually and emphasizes career development. Candidates must be GPhC registered pharmacists with management experience and a commitment to improving patient well-being.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Employee assistance helpline

Discounts on shopping and leisure activities

Qualifications

• Management and leadership experience required.
• Clinical orientation and experience in primary care/GP setting preferred.
• Experience with accuracy checking and auditing.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of 12 pharmacy staff.
• Provide expert clinical advice on medicines management.
• Deliver high-quality prison pharmacy services.
• Promote best practice in prescribing decisions.

Skills

Pharmaceutical care

Leadership

Clinical advice on medicines

Poly-pharmacy management

Stakeholder relationship building

Education

GPhC registered Pharmacist

Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy

Job description

Overview

Lead Pharmacist to join the Pharmacy team at HMP Lewes. HMP Lewes is a category B male prison. Lewes prison is based near the centre of the historical town of Lewes, approximately a 5-minute walk from the town centre.

The Prescribing course is fully funded and the PCPEP is available. A busy and complex role with multidisciplinary working, with a real impact on patients, where you can make changes and improve their wellbeing. You will also run safer prescribing and MDT sessions. There is lots of scope to self-develop in-house.

Hours

37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday 7.30am–3.30pm, no weekends.

This position is full-time; salary up to £74,136 per annum FTE depending on experience.

How will we support you?

• Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course
• Competency framework
• Regional and national career development opportunities
• Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
• Support from the wider team
• Candidates are required to have a legal right to work in the UK and, due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks

Main duties of the job

• Manage and lead the Pharmacy team of 12
• Provide expert clinical advice on medicines and poly-pharmacy in line with expected standards, ensuring that safe, modern medicines management and medicines optimisation services are provided to patients
• Deliver an integrated, safe, legal and high-quality prison pharmacy service, part of a comprehensive healthcare package based on the prison population needs
• Inspire positive and aspirational leadership to the team of pharmacy technicians and the wider healthcare team to create and maintain a good working environment and facilitate staff retention
• Promote good practice in all prescribing decisions to develop and implement improved medicines management understanding throughout the prison healthcare team
• Share information relating to pharmaceutical products, medicines management, medicines optimisation, medicines legislation and general health education so that patients and the healthcare teams are appropriately informed

Career development

If you are interested in career development, we have a wide range of opportunities to develop your skills and experience, including both internal and external options for development and learning.

Benefits

• Discounts on shopping and leisure activities
• Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development
• 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it

About us

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

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

Qualifications required

• GPhC registered Pharmacist
• Management and leadership experience
• Ideally clinically oriented and work in primary care / GP setting
• Accuracy checking and audit experience
• Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy including pre-registration training
• Experience developing effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders

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

Job responsibilities

UNLOCK YOUR BEST WORK LIFE

+ MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO EVERY LIFE

We have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Pharmacist to join our Pharmacy team at HMP Lewes. HMP Lewes is a category B male prison. Lewes prison is based near the centre of the historical town of Lewes, which is just a 5-minute walk away.

The Prescribing course is fully funded and also the PCPEP. A busy and complex role with multidisciplinary working, having a real impact on patients, where you can make changes and improve their well-being. You will also run the safer prescribing and MDT sessions. There is lots of scope to self-develop in-house.

Hours

37.5 hours working Monday to Friday 7.30am–3.30pm, no weekends.

This position is full-time; you’ll receive an annual salary up to £74,136 per annum FTE - depending on experience.

How will we support you?

Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course

Competency framework

Regional and national career development opportunities

Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs

Support from the wider team

Candidates are required to have a legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks

Additional criteria

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and disclosure checks in line with policy.

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 DBS to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£63,119 to £74,136 a year