Clinical Pharmacist

Location: Newton Abbott – HMP Channings Wood

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Salary: £53,755-£60,504 per annum

We are proud to be working with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust who have recently been voted by the Sunday Times as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work 2023.

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, they are able to expand recruitment and are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Prison Services Clinical Pharmacist to join their friendly team at HMP Channing Woods.

The healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and Oxleas pride themselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patient’s future resettlement back into the community. Oxleas deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse services 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 the team, 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 be acting as the GP Pharmacist for HMP Channing Wood. You will be providing medicines optimisations services and support the GP’s and dispensary teams on site at the prison. You will be working 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 be required to work with these patients to manage medicine-related risk. You will be implementing improvements to patients’ medicines for LTC’s, such as de-prescribing, running LTC clinics, etc.

You will be providing leadership to the wider healthcare team to ensure practice is compliant, developing and managing new services that are built around new medicines or NICE guidelines, and working with the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist to develop and enforce the formulary. You will be co-ordinating and managing the workload within the prison and providing your clinical proficiency to more junior team members as and when required. You will analyse, interpret and present medicines data, provide leadership on areas of prescribing requiring improvements and present results of audits/suggest changes.

What do you need?

· 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

· Previous prison/hospital/community pharmacy experience in the UK

What next?

If this is a role you’re 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.

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