Role Overview

As a member of Spectrum Community Health, the post holder will be responsible for delivering a pharmacy service at HMP Humber in line with GPhC standards and recommendations outlined in “A pharmacy service for prisoners” and ‘Safer Prescribing in Prisons’. This will involve the overall organisation, planning, and coordination of all pharmacy services on-site. The post holder will work with the Medicines Management Pharmacist, other Spectrum Specialist Prison Pharmacists, Lead GP, other GPs, and the prisons to ensure prison pharmacy services are of the highest quality and successfully integrated into Spectrum Community Health.

In line with the well-being model of healthcare, the post holder, through a partnership approach, will also help patients to optimise their medicines by tailoring medicines and support to the individual patient needs. They will also identify unmet pharmaceutical needs, and assist in improving access and service efficiency including a reduction in wasted medicines.

Responsibilities

• To strategically plan, organise, coordinate staff, and deliver pharmacy services at HMP Humber.
• To ensure that pharmaceutical care is consistently delivered in accordance with the Medicines Act, GPhC guidance, Commissioner service specification, and in line with recommendations outlined in “A pharmacy service for prisoners” and "Safer Prescribing for Prisoners".
• To encourage the development of better medicines management understanding throughout the wider healthcare team and Prison Team and promote good practice in line with therapeutic developments in all prescribing decisions.
• This will involve assisting the Prison Health Care team in achieving NSF targets, NICE implementation, medicines management initiatives, and the introduction of electronic prescribing.
• The job holder will be expected to work across the sites in the North East when required.