Area Pharmacist - Offender Health Nottinghamshire inNottingham inNottingham PUBLISHED FRI 8 NOV 2024

You will be responsible for supporting the Directorate Pharmacist with delivering safe, high quality, person-centred medicines optimisation work programs and activities.

You will work as part of a team to provide strategic oversight to raise standards for patients improving the safety, quality and cost effectiveness of prescribing - including management of clinical governance and risk in relation to medicines.

Work as a clinical pharmacist and support the delivery of a comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines management service in specified offender health sites:

HMP Ranby, HMP Nottingham & HMP Lowdham Grange

This includeso Clinical, professional advice and development of staff in Primary Care, Primary and Secondary Mental Health and Substance Misuse Serviceso Medicines Use Review program leado Population-focused interventions to improve efficiency and efficacy of treatments

Provide medicines management leadership through the supervision and development of prison pharmacy technicians and other pharmacy and healthcare staff

Provide professional leadership and strategic direction in developing local processes ensuring best evidence is utilized in driving improvements. Ensure all standards set out by the CQC and other regulatory bodies are met and exceeded

The post will require a regular presence on all sites within the Nottinghamshire cluster, with the role split between front line tasks and strategic project work

This post holder will be responsible for supporting and delivering a clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to all patients within the cluster

This post holder will collaborate on Directorate and Trust wide initiatives within Offender Health as part of a wider clinical team

About us

The Offender Health Care Group is one of the largest and most successful providers of prison healthcare in the UK. The Care Group provide physical, mental health and substance misuse healthcare services in prisons across the East Midlands, Lincolnshire & Leicestershire.

You are part of a large peer group of 400+ healthcare professionals with access to peer support, supervision and excellent opportunities for learning and development. We also offer services within the Personality Disorder Pathway, including Therapeutic Communities (within prisons), Community and Prison Personality Disorder services and specialist Veteran Services.

We are committed to working in partnership with prison services, national probation service other healthcare providers and our criminal justice system partners to improve health, support justice to reduce re-offending behaviour. The Offender Health Team truly believes it can make a difference to the lives of offenders by offering consistent, high-quality care in primary, mental health and substance misuse services that are equivalent to health services delivered outside of Prison.

Do you want to make a difference?Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

See attached job description for further details of the role.

Please do get in touch if you'd like to know more about who we are or what we do. We'd love to talk with you!

We are a passionate team .We pride ourselves on our individual patient focus and working closely with patients to optimise their medicines and facilitate their recovery.

Support to develop any extra skills you may require in this specialised area will be provided. We actively support our staff to engage with relevant educational opportunities, including formal postgraduate qualifications.