Job Description
To ensure health care professionals and offenders are provided with clinically sound, evaluated medicines information. This will include signposting to appropriate services as required. To support staff in their personal development and to ensure all staff are suitably qualified for the tasks they undertake. To undertake any other relevant duties, as may be required by the Chief Pharmacist To ensure all medicines are procured according to Trust standing financial instructions and standing orders and in accordance with relevant medicines legislation, public procurement law, national guidance and local Standing Operating Procedures (SOPs).
To provide managerial support and advice, and professional, legal and clinical supervision of the prison pharmacy staff as required. To ensure timely reports on the use and cost of medicines are provided to the finance department, the Chief Pharmacist, and the Commissioners as required. Wholesale Dealers License Duties of the Responsible Person (RP) To be a RP for the purposes of the WDL and ensure GDP compliance in the pharmacy store. Responsibilities include: - Ensuring that a quality management system is implemented and maintained.
Focusing on the management of authorised activities and accuracy and quality of records. Ensuring that initial and continuous training programs are implemented and maintained. Co-ordinating and promptly performing any recall operations for medicinal products. Ensuring that relevant customer complaints are dealt with effectively.
Ensuring suppliers and customers are approved. Ensuring that self-inspections are performed at appropriate regular intervals following a pre-arranged programme and that necessary corrective measures are put in place. Keeping appropriate records of any delegated duties (duties, but not responsibilities, can be delegated). Deciding on the final disposition of returned, rejected, recalled or falsified products.
Approving any returns to saleable stock. Ensuring that any additional requirements imposed on certain products by national law are adhered to. To be continuously contactable during working hours. To sign off all standing operating procedures.
Management responsibilities To be responsible for medication safety issues within the prison services and contribute to the work of the prison patient safety group. To ensure that incidents involving medicines are reported in line with Trust policy and remedial actions to reduce risk of recurrence are developed, communicated and implemented. To ensure that robust systems are in place for managing prescribed medicines that have the potential to be abused, such as controlled drugs, and to support the Trusts accountable officer for controlled drugs with respect to activity on the within the Kent and Medway prisons. To lead on developing the agenda for the prison Medicines management Committee and ensure decisions made by this committee are actioned.
To attend other relevant prison clinical governance committee meetings and coordinate reports from across the prison sites on medicines management. To recruit, line manage, performance manage and develop pharmacy staff at HMP & YOI Rochester Pharmacy Department. To organise the appointment of bank staff and authorise payment for hours worked. To act as an authorised signatory for drug and stationary orders and weekly absence reports.
To be responsible for the implementation and management of all policies and procedures including those relating to the pharmacy computer system (JAC) and WDL. To ensure the rota for cross prison clinical cover is manageable and that there are sufficient staff within the dispensary as necessary to cope with the fluctuating workload. To organise and manage contracts with local community pharmacies to provide dispensing services for weekends and bank holidays when medicines are required urgently for offenders. Leadership To be responsible for developing, managing, delivering and evaluating services delivered via HMP & YOI Rochester pharmacy to the Kent and Medway prisons To lead on medicines management across the Kent and Medway prisons in liaison with the lead primary care provider, the mental health provider(s) and the prison management committees.
To be responsible for the appraisal, review and development of prison pharmacy staff. To coordinate education and training requirements for students and qualified staff. To support and develop the roles of pharmacy staff at HMP & YOI Rochester Pharmacy including final accuracy checking by technicians, dispensing by assistants, and ordering of medicines via the NHS messaging service (electronic ordering). To have specialist knowledge of prison pharmacy and mental health services and use this knowledge to support more junior staff in their learning.
Clinical To develop and provide clinical pharmacy services to the prisons to ensure offenders receive appropriate review of medication, that pharmacy staff promote a healthy lifestyle and that pharmacy staff offer suitable and evaluated advice to offenders on the appropriate use of medicines. To provide information about the use of medicines to prison GPs, other prescribers, other health care professionals, and offenders. The post holder will be expected to make clinical judgements where information is lacking or where ambiguity around suitable choice of medicines for use in prison is necessary to limit the potential for abuse or misappropriation. To provide advice and support to all healthcare professionals to encourage safe, cost effective and appropriate medicines use within the prisons.
To take professional responsibility when clinically screening prescriptions to ensure the accuracy, legality, safety and efficacy of prescribed medication, including liaising with prison GPs and nurses to resolve any queries arising from the screening process. To provide clinical advice to pharmacy support staff. To demonstrate on-going Continuing Professional Development (CPD), and be responsible for self-development and learning within the field of pharmacy and other specialities where appropriate. To provide cover for the clinical pharmacy visits to the Kent and Medway prisons when pharmacy staff are absent or posts are vacant.
To participate in providing an out-of-hours service to Kent and Medway prisons for the organisation of emergency supplies of medicines for offenders. Communication To attend and contribute to relevant prison and external clinical governance committee meetings and coordinate reports from across the prison sites on medicines management. To make clinical judgements where information is highly complex or lacking or ambiguity exists. Research To ensure systems are in place that support the implementation of evidence-based practice and the uptake of research findings into practice.
To contribute to audit projects as required. Other Post holders will need to undertake a prison security check (level 1) prior to being employed, as well the standard NHS recruitment checks.
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