Prisons Services Clinical Pharmacist - HMP Channings Wood
Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.
As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Prison Services Clinical Pharmacist to join our friendly team at HMP Channing Woods.
Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients' future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
Main duties of the job
As a Prison Services Clinical Pharmacist, you will be acting as the GP Pharmacist for HMP Channings Wood. You will provide medicines optimization services and support the GP's and dispensary teams on site at the prison. You will work closely with patients to support them with any medicine queries and concerns, run medication review clinics, and provide your clinical expertise when required. Using SystemOne, you will devise and implement searches to identify cohorts of patients who may be at high risk of harm from medicines and/or more likely to be at risk of unplanned admission to hospital from medicines. You will then be required to work with these patients to manage medicine-related risk. You will implement improvements to patients' medicines for LTC's, such as de-prescribing and running LTC clinics.
You will provide leadership to the wider healthcare team to ensure practice is compliant, developing and managing new services that are built around new medicines or NICE guidelines, and working with the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist to develop and enforce the formulary. You will coordinate and manage the workload within the prison and provide your clinical proficiency to more junior team members as required. You will analyze, interpret and present medicines data, provide leadership on areas of prescribing requiring improvements, and present results of audits/suggest changes.
Job responsibilities
* Support patients with their medicine queries and concerns.
* Undertake medication review clinics.
* Stratify risk with high-risk medicines and work to reduce such risk for patients.
* Identify patients at risk of admission to hospital and manage medicine-related risk for these patients.
* Implement improvements to patients' medicines for LTCs, including de-prescribing and run LTC clinics.
* Develop and manage new services built around new medicines or NICE guidance.
* Provide leadership to ensure practice within healthcare is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
* Support the audit process in line with Oxleas NHSFT audit programme and disseminate findings appropriately to improve prescribing practice.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
* Masters Degree of Pharmacy or equivalent
* Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council of GB (GPhC)
* Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice/Clinical Pharmacy/Mental Health or equivalent (or working towards)
* Registered Independent Pharmacist Prescriber
* A member of or working towards Faculty Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Experience
* Previous prison/hospital/community pharmacy experience in the UK
* At least 4 years experience of providing clinical pharmacy services
* At least 2 years experience of providing clinical services within prisons or GP practices
* Experience of providing clinical services to mental health or substance misuse patients
Skills and Abilities
* Recent clinical pharmacy practice in a GP practice or prison setting
* Sound clinical skills at diploma level
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
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