Band 7 Pharmacist
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Location: Newton Abbot HMP Channings Wood
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £46,148 to £52,809 per annum, dependent on experience
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.
We are currently looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable, and motivated Pharmacist to join our friendly team at HMP Channings Wood, covering our Devon cluster of prisons (HMP Channings Wood, HMP Dartmoor & HMP Exeter).
Our healthcare team have 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.
As part of our pharmacy service (OPS), you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
What will you be doing?
As a Prison Services Clinical Pharmacist, you will provide clinical pharmacy services to patients within your allocated prison(s) and support the team of pharmacy technicians and assistants. You will be responsible for organising the pharmacy clinical service provision within the prison(s), planning your own work schedule as well as the wider teams work schedules. You will manage the day-to-day work of the pharmacy technicians within the team, supporting them clinically when on site. You will be making clinical judgments within your clinical ability where information is highly complex and the team need support.
You will undertake clinical visits within the prison, carrying out MUR's, reviewing medication history of newly admitted offenders and proving clinics for patients to give advice and support on their prescribed medicines. You will be an active member of the clinical governance/medicines management committee(s), monitor prescribing trends, and assist in writing PGD's when an appropriate use is identified. You will be required to train and educate nursing staff in the use of medicines and PGD's to ensure safe, secure prescribing and handling of medicines is taking place within the prison(s).
What do you need?
* Masters Degree of Pharmacy or equivalent
* Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council of GB (GPhC)
* Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent (or working towards)
* Previous prison/hospital/community pharmacy experience in the UK
* Experience of providing clinical pharmacy services
* At least 2 years experience post registration of providing clinical services within prisons or hospitals
What next?
If this is a role youre interested in, and you want to join the team and help make a difference, please click on the apply button. You will be redirected to a page where you can enter your details, answer a few questions about your experience, and attach your CV. Someone will then be in touch with you to provide you with next steps.
Interested? Click apply now!
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