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 instill 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 well-being and support better outcomes in the future.
***Working from Home 2 days a week (Monday & Tuesday and the rest of the week working in the Pharmacy at HMP Channings Wood)***
Main Duties of the Job
As a Prison Services Clinical Pharmacist, you will be acting as the GP Pharmacist for HMP Channing Wood. You will provide medicines optimisation 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 work with these patients to manage medicine-related risk.
Key Tasks and 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 running LTC clinics.
* Develop and manage new services that are 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.
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
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. If you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme. We encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience.
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