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 (including 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.
Main duties of the job
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 team's 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 needs support.
You will undertake clinical visits within the prison, carrying out MUR's, reviewing medication history of newly admitted offenders and providing 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).
Job responsibilities
To organise on a weekly basis the pharmacy clinical service provision to the allocated prisons, planning your work and the work of others.
To provide clinical services to the allocated prisons.
To ensure you personally have high standards of work, both clinical and dispensing and follow all standard operating procedures (SOPs) as directed by the Lead Prison Services Pharmacist.
To work as a team with the pharmacy technician in the allocated prisons and to support this technician professionally when on site.
To implement the prison formulary, in collaboration with primary care colleagues.
To generate monthly reports on drug expenditure for the allocated prisons and to advise the prescribers on areas for improvement and efficiencies.
To provide clinical screening and final accuracy checks when working in the dispensary.
To ensure all work is carried out in a timely manner to meet the requirements of the delivery service across the prisons.
To manage the day-to-day work of the pharmacy technician when on site in the allocated prisons.
To manage your own time efficiently whilst on prison visits.
To undertake scheduled clinical visits to the allocated prisons. On these visits you will:
* Undertake MURs for offenders identified as requiring assistance by healthcare staff.
* Review the medication history of newly admitted offenders to ensure prescriptions are correct and if necessary make recommendations to bring prescribing in line with local formulary choices.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
* Masters Degree of Pharmacy or equivalent
* Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council of GB (GPhC)
* Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent (or working towards)
* Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Experience
* 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
* Experience of providing clinical services to mental health or substance misuse patients
Skills and Abilities
* Recent clinical pharmacy practice in a hospital or prison setting
* Sound basic clinical skills
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.
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