Job Summary
Join our team as a Bank Clinical Pharmacist and play a key role in delivering safe, effective, and person‑centred pharmacy services within a secure environment. Working as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team and reporting to the Lead Pharmacist, you will ensure the highest standards of medicines optimisation in line with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Professional Standards for people in secure settings.
In this role, you’ll provide clinical advice, support prescription and medication queries, and help manage repeat and acute prescriptions. You will act as the Responsible Pharmacist when required and ensure all practice meets General Pharmaceutical Council guidelines.
You will also contribute to quality improvement, support GPs with cost‑effective prescribing, and assist in the day‑to‑day management of the pharmacy team. This is a rewarding opportunity to use your clinical expertise to make a meaningful difference to patient care within the prison setting while working flexibly as part of our bank workforce.
Main Duties
* Provide high‑quality, safe, and patient‑centred pharmacy services within the prison environment, delivering accurate and accessible medicines information to practice staff and patients, responding to medicines‑related enquiries from GPs, nurses, multidisciplinary teams, and individuals in custody, and offering clear recommendations and follow‑up to support safe prescribing and effective medicines use.
* Ensure effective medicines reconciliation following discharge from hospitals or intermediate care settings, identifying and resolving any unexplained changes to treatment and supporting patients to understand and access the medicines they require post‑discharge.
* Manage systems that enable continuity of medicines supply for high‑risk or clinically vulnerable patients.
* Signpost patients to the right healthcare professional or service for their level of need, such as pathology follow‑up, minor ailments, acute presentations or reviews for long‑term conditions.
* Contribute to dispensary operations, taking professional responsibility for clinically screening prescriptions to ensure legality, safety, accuracy and efficacy. Liaise with prescribers to resolve any issues and ensure all dispensary staff work in accordance with approved Standard Operating Procedures.
* Maintain security awareness essential in a prison environment.
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’re a Disability Confident and Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work‑environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
Please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2 for more information.
Details
* Date posted: 01 March 2026
* Pay scheme: Agenda for change
* Band: Band 7
* Salary: £27.08 to £27.08 a year
* Contract: Bank
* Working pattern: Part‑time
* Reference number: HCRGCG/TP/24475/18566
* Job locations: HCRG Care Group, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 4LU
Ideal Candidate
Essential
* MPharm (or equivalent) and registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Strong therapeutic and clinical knowledge with an evidence‑based approach to care.
* Understanding of pharmacy practice within secure or specialist environments.
* Ability to prioritise, solve problems and escalates appropriately to senior clinicians or GPs.
* Able to work within legal, ethical and organisational policies and professional codes of conduct.
* Skilled at involving patients in decisions about their medicines and supporting adherence.
* Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills, including explaining complex or sensitive information clearly.
* Confident in medicines optimisation for long‑term conditions, including planning, reviewing and advising.
* Competent IT skills and ability to analyse complex clinical or technical information.
* Able to work under pressure, meet deadlines and produce accurate, timely reports.
* Strong influencing, negotiating and motivation skills, even where barriers exist.
* Works effectively both independently and as part of a wider multidisciplinary team.
* Demonstrates accountability and professionalism in all aspects of clinical practice.
Desirable
* Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
* Understanding of primary care prescribing, rational prescribing and approaches to improving prescribing practice.
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.
Employer Details
HCRG Care Group
HCRG Care Group, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 4LU
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