Position Overview
A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. To lead, deliver and evaluate an advanced comprehensive medicines management service to patients at HMP Woodhill, with oversight at HMP Bedford and Yarl’s Wood IRC. This role ensures all services comply with medicines legislation, particularly controlled drugs legislation.
Key Responsibilities
* Accountable for ensuring delivery of measurable improvements in medicines optimisation and compliance standards across all allocated sites.
* Lead on medicines audit, procedures and research, and provide input into policy affecting the use of pharmaceuticals at the HMPs & IRC, Health and Justice Directorate and other CNWL Foundation Trust sites where appropriate.
* Lead on communication with the pharmacy supply function, security and healthcare functions to ensure provision of an effective dispensing and supply service to all locations.
* Deputise for the Health and Justice Head of Pharmacy, including attending senior meetings.
* Lead on the management and clinical supervision of pharmacists and technicians where appropriate.
* Provide appraisals for the directly managed pharmacists at HMP Woodhill, HMP Bedford, and Yarl’s Wood IRC.
* Advise and support General Practitioners and other medical staff at the HMPs and IRC on clinical and legislative aspects of prescribing, including primary care, substance misuse and mental health.
* Accountable for ensuring clinical pharmacy services meet CNWL, CQC, HMIP and GPhC standards.
* Responsible for providing clinical pharmacy input at unit level to multidisciplinary teams caring for patients, ensuring pharmacy staff have adequate competencies to deliver such services.
* Write, plan, organise, implement and monitor the In Possession Medication policy for detainees across the patch.
* Lead planning, organising, implementing and monitoring the electronic prescribing and medicines administration policy and other medicine‑related SOPs for healthcare staff.
* Lead planning, organising, implementing and monitoring Medicine Review Clinics, New Medicines Services and Structured Medicine Reviews for patients within the services.
* Coordinate management of the meeting dates, agenda and work plan of the Medicines Optimisation Group for HMP Woodhill and supervise the MOGs for HMP Bedford and Yarl’s Wood IRC; provide annual reports to the Heads of Healthcare.
* Produce ADIOS (system for monitoring Controlled Drug/Abusable drugs) reports for the CNWL Accountable Officer for Controlled Drugs.
* Lead medicines management initiatives working closely with Primary Care, Substance Misuse, Mental Health service leads and GP teams.
* Provide expertise and recommendations on the use of medicines at the IRC/HMP using an evidence‑based approach for all new medicines, formulations and all medicines with newly licensed indications.
Closing Information
This advert closes on Thursday 23 Apr 2026.
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