Prisons Services Clinical Pharmacist


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£59,528 to £66,750 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, ME12 4DZ
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	23 Oct 2026
Closing date:	6 Nov 2026

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Summary

Management, Leadership and Training responsibilities To devise and implement SystmOne computer searches to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines. To devise and implement SystmOne searches to identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk of unplanned admission/readmission to hospital from medicines. To provide leadership to the Healthcare Manager and GPs to ensure that practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. As part of the Health and Wellbeing model, to contribute to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations and adult immunisation programmes using specialist knowledge on immunisation. To ensure all relevant PGDs for immunisation are in place and staff authorised to administer using a PGD have receive the relevant training. Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making. Identify and provide leadership on areas of prescribing requiring improvement. Present results of audits and provide leadership on suggested changes. To develop and manage new services that are built around new medicines or NICE guidance, where a new medicine/recommendations allow the development of a new care pathway. Provide education and training to the primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Support the Specialist Prison Service Pharmacist in providing education and training to the pharmacy team members as required. Identify from SystmOne patients prescribed medication that should be prescribed or initiated by Specialists/hospital doctors or subject to shared care and liaise directly with hospital colleagues to ensure prescribing and dispensing of such medicines is appropriately undertaken and adheres to the requirements of the secure environment. Develop, implement and maintain the prison formulary, in liaison with other OPS colleagues, and ensure this is updated onto SystmOne locally when changes are made. Manage the process if implementing changes to medicines resulting from MHRA alerts and product withdrawals and provide guidance for practitioners. Clinical Work with the dispensary and Primary Care teams to identify patients as at risk from high risk medicines to minimise such risks through medicines optimisation. Provide scheduled clinics for offenders across Sheppey Island Prisons (HMP Elmley, HMP Swaleside and HMP Standford Hill) to give advice and support on their prescribed medicines, OTC medicines and other medical issues they may raise. To put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of medicines likely to cause readmission to high-risk patient groups. Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines or promotions. To be an active member of the Kent prisons clinical governance/medicines management committee(s). To provide face to face clinics to help patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. To hold clinics for patients requiring face-to-face Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs) i.e. a review of the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their concordance with prescribed medication. To undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests. To see patients in multi-morbidity clinics and in partnership with the Health and Wellbeing coordinator(s), implement improvements to the patients medicines, including deprescribing. Run own long term conditions clinics where responsible for prescribing as an independent prescriber for conditions where medicines have a large component (e.g. stable angina, warfarin monitoring and dose adjustment). To demonstrate on-going continual professional development (CPD) and be responsible for self-development and learning within the field of pharmacy or other specialty where appropriate. Make recommendations for and manage changes to medicines (switches) designed to save on medicines costs where a medicine or product with a lower acquisition cost is now available. Answer all medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other healthcare staff and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes. Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance, including national prison formularies. Research To ensure systems are in place that support the implementation of evidence-based guidelines into practice within the Sheppey Prisons. To undertake own audit of prescribing practices), analyse complex data, feedback results and make suggestions for change. Audit compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance involving medication at Sheppey Prisons. Feeding back findings, analysis and solutions to the GPs and Medicines Management Committee. Communication To make clinical judgments within your clinical ability where information is highly complex or lacking or ambiguity exists. Where such judgments are outside of your clinical ability to refer the situation to a more senior pharmacist or GP for assistance. To provide newsletters on important prescribing messages to improve prescribers knowledge and work with the GP and Primary Care team to develop and implement other techniques known to influence implementation of evidence such as audit and feedback. To communicate with external healthcare providers to ensure prisoners are treated with medication suitable for continuation on return to the secure environment.

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