Practice Pharmacist

Interim Practice Pharmacist - Band 7 Are you an experienced pharmacist with independent prescribing experience looking for an interim opportunity within a specialist healthcare environment? MCS Group are delighted to be recruiting for an Interim Practice Pharmacist within the SEHSCT. The Organisation Healthcare in Prison provides innovative, compassionate and patient-centred care, working closely with multidisciplinary teams to improve health outcomes for people in custody.

The service operates across custodial healthcare settings, working in partnership with primary care, mental health, addictions and wider healthcare services.

The Role As an Interim Practice Pharmacist, you will provide autonomous, highly skilled clinical pharmacy, medicines optimisation and independent prescribing services within prison healthcare. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will use your clinical expertise to improve the safety, effectiveness and consistency of prescribing, while supporting medication reviews, repeat-prescribing systems, medicines reconciliation, audit and quality improvement.

Key Responsibilities Deliver clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation services to improve prescribing quality, patient safety and outcomes. Work autonomously within the multidisciplinary team, providing expert pharmaceutical and prescribing advice. Act as an independent prescriber for agreed patient cohorts, working within your scope of practice and relevant governance and professional frameworks. Undertake medicines reconciliation following committal, transfer and release to support continuity of care.

Manage and continually improve safe repeat-prescribing systems, including re-authorisation processes. Conduct structured medication reviews, with a focus on long-term conditions, poly pharmacy and high-risk medicines. Assess, initiate, optimise, therapeutically switch and discontinue medicines in line with clinical need and evidence-based practice. Provide pharmaceutical advice in complex clinical situations, including mental health, substance misuse and co-morbid long-term conditions. Lead or contribute to medicines-related audit and quality improvement initiatives.

Use clinical systems and prescribing data to identify risk, monitor outcomes and support population-health approaches. Provide education, support and advice to healthcare staff on medicines management and safe prescribing. Work collaboratively with GPs, nurses, non-medical prescribers, pharmacy technicians and wider healthcare professionals. Liaise with secondary care, mental health services, substance misuse services, community pharmacies and primary care to support continuity of medicines.

Support medicines-related safety incidents, governance processes and wider medicines optimisation priorities.

The Person As the successful candidate, you will have the professional knowledge, clinical experience and prescribing capability required to operate as an autonomous pharmacist within a complex healthcare environment. Essential:
Registered pharmacist with current professional registration. Demonstrable experience in clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation. Current independent prescribing status and the ability to prescribe within relevant scope of practice. Experience undertaking structured medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. Experience managing or improving prescribing systems, including repeat prescribing. Experience working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary healthcare environment. Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development and maintaining prescribing competence.

Desirable:
Experience working across primary care, mental health, addictions or other complex clinical environments.

Experience of medicines-related audit and quality improvement initiatives. Experience using prescribing data and clinical systems to identify risk and support service improvement. Experience providing education, supervision or professional support to other healthcare staff. What's in it for you? Band 7 opportunity within a specialist healthcare environment. Opportunity to work as an autonomous Practice Pharmacist with responsibility for clinical pharmacy, medicines optimisation and independent prescribing.

Exposure to complex clinical areas including mental health, substance misuse, long-term conditions and poly pharmacy. Opportunity to lead and contribute to medicines optimisation, audit and quality improvement initiatives. Experience working closely with a broad multidisciplinary healthcare team. Opportunity to influence prescribing practice and contribute to improving patient safety and outcomes. Potential to gain experience across a range of custodial healthcare settings.

To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity please send an up to date CV via the link provided or contact Meghan Hamilton, Senior Recruitment Consultant on or on email at MCS Group is committed to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion for all, being the first…