An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and dynamic Clinical Pharmacist to join our progressive healthcare service within HMP Chelmsford. We are seeking a dedicated individual to play a key role in providing safe, high-quality medicines management, with a particular focus on supporting patients with mental health needs and ensuring robust monitoring of antipsychotic medications.
This role combines both dispensary-based duties and clinical patient-facing services, offering variety and professional development in a complex and rewarding environment.
Main duties of the job
Dispensary & Medicines Management:
- Ensure the safe, timely, and secure supply of medications to prison wings.
- Oversee the safe transport and handling of medicines, adhering to Controlled Drug regulations.
- Provide clinical supervision to pharmacy technicians and support staff.
- Maintain the day-to-day operation of the prison dispensary.
Clinical Duties:
- Conduct medication reviews and develop pharmaceutical care plans.
- Conduct comprehensive yearly audits focusing on compliance and best practices for Controlled Drugs, antibiotic usage, and the application of Patient Group Directions (PGDs).
- Provide structured medication reviews (SMRs) for eligible patients.
- Participate in clinics, offering advice on prescribed and over‑the‑counter medications.
- Manage minor ailments and common conditions within your clinical competency.
- Support patients in making the best use of their medicines through optimisation initiatives.
- Administer medications on the wing, depending on the business needs.
Prescribing & Monitoring:
- Clinically screen prescriptions to ensure accuracy, legality, safety, and effectiveness.
- Review medication histories of new admissions, recommending adjustments as needed.
- Monitor antimicrobial prescribing in line with AMR guidelines.
- Evaluate prescribing trends and advise prescribers in line with formulary standards.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
Job responsibilities & benefits
- Salary of £50,133.33 – £57,600.00 (pro‑rata) depending on experience, and Group Pension.
- Competitive salary enhancement.
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases and cashback and voucher offers.
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high‑interest rates.
- Online and face‑to‑face help with your mental and physical wellbeing, including healthy recipes, activity challenges, post‑trauma support, legal, debt and life‑management help, and career coaching and counselling.
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
- An open, just culture that encourages you to have and implement ideas to deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care, backed up by at least £100,000 of ring‑fenced innovation funding each year.
- A pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards, with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
The Ideal Candidate
Essential
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a Pharmacist.
- Master’s degree in Pharmacy or equivalent.
- Independent prescriber.
- Previous experience in UK‑based prison, hospital, or community pharmacy settings.
Desirable
- Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy.
- Experience delivering services to patients with mental health conditions or substance misuse issues.
- Ideally an Independent Prescriber.
Person Specification
General Requirements
Employment will be at the discretion of HMP Chelmsford upon recruitment.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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