Skip to main content

This job has expired

Prisons services clinical pharmacist

Employer
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Sheerness,
Salary
£42,057 to £47,839 a year pa inc
Closing date
12 Aug 2022

View more

Grade
Band 7
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Clinical Pharmacist, Band 7 Full time 37.5 hours per week

Pharmacy Department

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is a mental health and community trust that provides a wide and growing range of services across the boroughs of Bexley, Greenwich and Bromley. Due to the recent contract award from NHS England we will also be providing pharmacy services to the Kent and Medway prisons and the Dover Immigration Removal Centre.

If you have an interest in clinical Pharmacy and are looking for an opportunity to expand, this post could be for you. The post holder will be responsible for providing clinical services to HMP Elmley, a busy remand prison. As well as providing Responsible Pharmacist support to the dispensary. You will work in a small Pharmacy team, including Medicines Management technicians and Assistants, coordinating directly with the main Pharmacy at HMP Rochester. As an organisation, we believe in investing in our staff; we will support professional and clinical development initiatives.

The post-holder will be based at the dedicated sub-pharmacy department at HMP Elmley.

Main duties of the job

The Pharmacy department has a long history of innovation, with established prescribing guidelines, excellent relationships with medical staff, a strong culture of leading clinical audit and research projects and an excellent publication record. All these attributes we wish to extend to the prison pharmacy services.

We believe in supporting our staff to develop to their full potential.

About us

Oxleas - About Us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. 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 and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children's centres, schools and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent and manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital in Woolwich as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are one of the largest providers of prison health services providing healthcare to prisoners across Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

. We're Kind

. We're Fair

. We Listen

. We Care

Job description Job responsibilities

  • To organize on a weekly basis the pharmacy clinical service provision to the allocated prison(s), planning your work and the work of others.
  • To work collaboratively and communicate effectively with Rochester pharmacy to manage work load
  • To provide clinical services to the allocated prison(s).
  • To ensure you personally have high standards of work, both clinical and dispensing and follow all standard operating procedures (SOPs) as directed by the Senior Prison Services Pharmacist.
  • To work as a team with the pharmacy technician in the allocated cluster 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 cluster prisons and to advice 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 therequirements of the delivery service across the prisons.
  • To help support technicians in organizing the workload whilst in the dispensary
  • To work collaboratively with different healthcare providers i.e. primary care, IDTS, mental health


  • Person Specification Education/Qualifications Essential
    • Masters Degree of Pharmacy or equivalent
    • Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council of GB (GPhC)
    • Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent (or working towards)
    Desirable
    • Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
    Experience Essential
    • 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
    Desirable
    • Experience of providing clinical services to mental health or substance misuse patients
    Skills and Abilities Essential
    • Recent clinical pharmacy practice in a hospital or prison setting
    • Experience of working in a busy dispensary
    • Ability to use (or learn to use) computer packages including JAC and Microsoft
    Desirable
    • Ability to analyse and use clinical evidence and apply it appropriately in different contexts


    Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

    277-4309042-ELMLEY-B

    Get job alerts

    Create a job alert and receive personalised job recommendations straight to your inbox.

    Create alert