Primary Care Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist

Job summary

We are seeking an experiences Pharmacist, with experience in primary care to join our multidisciplinary healthcare team at HMP Wymott and HMP Garth.

This role focuses on delivering high-quality pharmaceutical care in prisons, ensuring the safe, effective, and appropriate use of medicines.

You will play a crucial part in managing medication for patients with complex needs, supporting health promotion, and providing expert clinical advice to both patients and healthcare staff. Working in line with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) Professional Standards for Optimising Medicines in Secure Environments (2017), the role requires a collaborative approach to improve health outcomes through patient-centered care, effective communication, and active involvement in medicines optimisation.

As a Primary Care Pharmacist in a secure setting, you will uphold the principles outlined in the RPS standards, including ensuring the safe prescribing, administration, and monitoring of medicines.

Key responsibilities include managing medicines reconciliation, supporting risk management, and delivering education on the appropriate use of medication within this unique population.

Additionally, you will contribute to reducing health inequalities by addressing specific challenges faced in secure environments.

Your role will help support the safe, timely, and equitable access to essential medicines, in line with the RPS standards and best practices in prison healthcare.

Main duties of the job

• To contribute to the development and delivery of primary healthcare within the health and justice division ensuring that prescribing and medicines management standards are in accordance with national policies and guidelines for offender health and the Trusts medicines management strategy.
• To carry out medication review clinics including structured medication reviews (SMRs) and making prescribing and deprescribing decisions to optimise patient's medication regimens.
• To provide complex medicines management advice to patients, healthcare professionals, prison staff and external agencies that have involvement in patients care.
• To develop excellent working relationships with GPs, consultants, NMPs, mental health and substance misuse providers and to ensure that prescribing decisions support the work of all involved in the patients care.
• To ensure effective communication with patients about changes in their medication. Overcome barriers to understanding and communication with patients who have physical, mental, social, language, hearing or sight problems.

About us

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over7000members of staff, who deliver services from more than160locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford,Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Employer details

Employer name

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHSFT

Address

HMP Wymott and HMP Garth

Ulness walton lane

leyland

PR26 8LW

Employer's website

https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHSFT

Address

HMP Wymott and HMP Garth

Ulness walton lane

leyland

PR26 8LW

Employer's website

https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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