Clinical Pharmacist

Practice Plus Group; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Clinical Pharmacist for their Pharmacy team at HMP Thameside. In this full-time role, you'll provide expert clinical advice and manage the prison pharmacy service, ensuring high-quality care. The ideal candidate will be a GPhC registered Pharmacist with leadership experience. Competitive salary up to £60,926 per year, along with support for professional development and additional benefits including discounts on shopping and access to a 24/7 employee assistance helpline.

Benefits

Discounts on shopping and leisure activities

Professional development support

24/7 employee assistance helpline

Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Experience in management and leadership is desirable.
• Familiarity with procurement and auditing is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical advice on medicines and poly-pharmacy.
• Deliver a safe and high-quality prison pharmacy service.
• Inspire leadership among pharmacy technicians and healthcare teams.
• Promote good prescribing practices within the prison healthcare team.
• Share information on medicines management and general health education.

Skills

GPhC registered Pharmacist

Management and leadership experience

Procurement and audit experience

Effective working relationships

Education

Vocational Master’s Degree in Pharmacy

Clinical Pharmacist diploma

Job description

About The Role

Unlock your best work life

+ Make a difference to every life

We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist to join our Pharmacy team at HMP Thameside, a category B Prison, a remand prison located in Thamesmead, London. This is a privately run prison.

There is staff parking, good access by bus and train, staff canteen, on‑site gym, PPG training pathway. This is a large and busy team of 18 which includes 2 Clinical Pharmacists, a dispensary team, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy assistants, and wing‑based technicians.

Hours

Working 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday 9‑5pm, no weekends.

Salary

This position is full time; you’ll receive an annual salary up to £60,926 per annum FTE—depending on experience.

How we support you

• Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course
• Competency framework
• Regional and national career development opportunities
• Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
• Support from the wider team

Candidates are required to have a legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks.

What you’ll be doing

• Provide expert clinical advice on medicines and poly‑pharmacy in line with expected standards, ensuring that a 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’ll look 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 fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.

Qualifications required

• GPhC registered Pharmacist.
• Management and leadership experience (desirable).
• Procurement and audit experience (desirable).
• Vocational Master’s Degree in Pharmacy including pre‑registration training.
• Clinical Pharmacist diploma would be desirable.
• Experience developing effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Secure environments are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work. If you’re looking for a role where you can develop your existing healthcare skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this could be the right opportunity for you.