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Prison Services Pharmacist

Employer
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Rochester, Kent,
Salary
£34,306 to £41,027 a year pa inc
Closing date
15 Aug 2022

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Grade
Band 6
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
If you are a qualified pharmacist wishing to gain experience working clinically in a prison setting, this post could be for you. The post-holder will provide pharmaceutical services to a cluster of prisons, supported and trained by the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist. You will work with a small pharmacy team, including a medicines management technician for your cluster of prisons and provide support to the dispensary. This role has excellent career and professional development opportunities as well as potential for post graduate education.

The post-holder will be based at the dedicated pharmacy department at HMP Rochester, but will routinely visit prison sites in Kent and Medway.

Oxleas NHS Trust operates a Probationary Period, further details are available on request.

Main duties of the job

Overview of the Post

To (1) provide clinical pharmacy services to the allocated prison cluster and support the pharmacy technician on these visits and (2) be a responsible pharmacist in the dispensary when rostered.

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

Management Responsibilities
  • To supervise 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.

  • Clinical
  • To undertake scheduled clinical visits to each of the 3 prisons in the allocated cluster. 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.
  • provide scheduled clinics for offenders to give advice and support on their prescribed medicines, OTC medicines and other medical issues they may raise.
  • Monitor prescribing trends and give advice to healthcare staff to improve prescribing in line with formulary choices and/or current clinical thinking.
  • Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines or promotions.
  • To attend the allocated cluster clinical governance/medicines management committee(s) and provide information with the assistance of the Specialist Prisons Pharmacist.
  • To work closely with the primary care providers to ensure safe prescribing, use, storage and transport of medicines within the secure environments.
  • To highlight to the specialist prison services pharmacist where Patient Group Directions (PGDs) may be useful in the allocated cluster. To train nursing staff in your allocated cluster in the use of these PGDs and to monitor use/compliance on an on-going basis, reporting any discrepancies to the senior pharmacist prison services.
  • To liaise with the specialist prison services pharmacist to review PGDs in use every 1-2 years on a rolling basis as determined by the senior pharmacist prison services.
  • To assist the specialist pharmacist prison services to introduce new prescribing guidelines/medicines within the allocated cluster prisons.
  • To demonstrate on-going continual professional development (CPD) and be responsible for self-development and learning within the field of pharmacy or other speciality where appropriate.


  • Person Specification Qualifications Essential
    • GphC registration as Pharmacist
    Desirable
    • Post graduate Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy
    Qualifications & Experience Essential
    • Master Degree of Pharmacy or Equivalent
    Desirable
    • Experience of providing clinical services to mental health or substance misuse patients
    Experience Essential
    • Previous prison/hospital/community pharmacy experience in the UK
    Desirable
    • Sound Basic Clinical Skills


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    277-4438589-ROCH

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