Clinical Pharmacist - Offender Healthcare
Band 8a
Main area: Offender Healthcare
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 277-6893937-ROCH-A
Site: HMP Rochester
Town: Rochester
Salary: £55,755 - £62,504 pa inc
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 11/03/2025 23:59
Job overview
We are seeking an experienced Clinical Pharmacist to provide medicines optimisation services and support the GPs and dispensary team at HMP Rochester.
Main duties of the job
1. Support patients with their medicine queries and concerns.
2. Undertake medication review clinics.
3. Stratify risk with high-risk medicines and work to reduce such risk for patients.
4. Identify patients at risk of admission to hospital and manage medicine-related risk for these patients.
5. Implement improvements to patients' medicines for LTCs, including de-prescribing and run LTC clinics.
6. Develop and manage new services based on new medicines or NICE guidance.
7. Provide leadership to ensure practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
8. Work with the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist to develop and enforce the formulary.
9. Support the audit process in line with Oxleas NHSFT audit programme and disseminate findings to improve prescribing practice.
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care, care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care. Our multidisciplinary teams work closely with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Leadership, Management and Training
1. Devise and implement SystmOne computer searches to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines.
2. Provide leadership to the Healthcare Manager and GPs to ensure compliance with CQC standards.
3. Contribute to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations and adult immunisation programmes.
4. Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and support decision making.
5. Develop and manage new services based on new medicines or NICE guidance.
6. Provide education and training to the primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
Clinical
1. Work with the dispensary and Primary Care teams to identify patients at risk from high-risk medicines.
2. Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders.
3. Provide face-to-face clinics to help patients with questions about their medicines.
4. Hold clinics for patients requiring Clinical Medication Reviews (CMRs).
5. Implement changes to reduce prescribing of medicines likely to cause readmission.
Dispensary
1. Act as responsible pharmacist in the dispensary.
2. Coordinate and manage the workload in Rochester Prison Pharmacy Dispensary.
3. Undertake clinical screening and final accuracy checks in the dispensary.
Communication
1. Make clinical judgments within your clinical ability and refer as necessary.
2. Provide newsletters on important prescribing messages.
3. Communicate with external healthcare providers to ensure continuity of care for prisoners.
Research
1. Ensure systems support the implementation of evidence-based guidelines.
2. Conduct audits of prescribing practices and provide feedback.
Other
1. Post holders will be subjected to an advanced DBS check and a prison security check (level 2).
2. Adhere to all prison procedures as necessary.
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.
* 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.
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities.
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