Job summary
- Main area
- Offender Health
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 186-1553-24-FS
- Employer
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Duncan Macmillian House
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum (pro rata for part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Area Pharmacist - Offender Health Nottinghamshire
Band 8a
Job overview
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 includes
o Clinical, professional advice and development of staff in Primary Care, Primary and Secondary Mental Health and Substance Misuse Services
o Medicines Use Review program lead
o 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
Main duties of the job
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
Working for our organisation
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MSc in Pharmacy or equivalent Pharmacy Degree
- Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Postgraduate Certificate/Diploma in Psychiatric Pharmacy
Desirable criteria
- Current membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Evidence of leadership development
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Clinical knowledge from pharmacy degree and aspects of career to date
- Extensive medicines management experience, including population-based interventions
- Experience of new ways of working and extended pharmacy roles – for example, PCN or ICB experience
Desirable criteria
- Project work
- Audit experience
- Evidence based medicine practice
- Teaching experience
- Project management
- Finance management
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Clinical pharmacy knowledge associated with a pharmacy degree course and vocational experience
- Awareness of NHS changes and understanding of pharmacy issues within the NHS
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching pharmaceutical knowledge to pharmacy and other staff
- Risk assessment
- Personal safety e.g. long working procedures
Skills
Essential criteria
- Organisational/time management skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Tested problem solving, and decision-making skills
- Able to identify and resolve risk management issues
- IT literate
- Ability maintain effective working relationships and promote collaborative practice with all colleagues
- Adaptable and flexible
- Work well under pressure and prioritise effectively
- Self-motivated and conscientious
- Strong professional demeanour
- Negotiation and influencing skills
Desirable criteria
- Able to gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barrier
- Able to plan, manage, monitor, and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust’s expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation
Contractual
Essential criteria
- A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicola Scoggins
- Job title
- Area Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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