What you’ll be doing

As a Pharmacist, your responsibilities will vary. You will

• 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.
• 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.
• Inspire positive and aspirational leadership to the team of pharmacy technicians and the wider
  healthcare team in order 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

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

It doesn’t stop there… we also offer:

• 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

What we are looking for in you

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: 

• GPhC registered Pharmacist.
• Available to newly qualified pharmacists and beyond.
• Management and leadership experience (desirable)
• Procurement and audit experience (desirable).
• Vocational Master’s Degree in Pharmacy including pre-registration training
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience developing effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders