Prisons Services Clinical Pharmacist

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 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, which encourages career and personal development for all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.

Working from Home 2 days a week (Monday & Tuesday and the rest of the week working in the Pharmacy at HMP Channing Woods)

Main duties of the job

As a Prison Services Clinical Pharmacist, you will be acting as the GP Pharmacist for HMP Channing Woods. 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 work with these patients to manage medicine-related risk. You will implement improvements to patients' medicines for LTCs, such as de-prescribing and running LTC clinics.

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 such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools, and people's homes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities Key Task 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 run LTC clinics where medicines are a large component of care.
• 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

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, 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.