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The position emphasises the delivery of integrated healthcare to improve the well-being of incarcerated individuals, supporting their future resettlement into the community. The role requires strong clinical acumen, the ability to navigate complex information, and a commitment to high standards of work. Applicants must be willing to undergo national security vetting as part of the pre-employment process. Overall, this position offers an opportunity to make a meaningful impact in offender healthcare while promoting personal and professional development within a compassionate team.
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 (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.
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 teams 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 need support.
You will undertake clinical visits within the prison, carrying out MUR's, reviewing medication history of newly admitted offenders and proving 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).
About us
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 allocatedprisons 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.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
You will need to provide:
Proof of right to work documentation
Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographicID
Proof of address documentation
Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
Address History:
5 years address history will be needed.
Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited .
In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from: www.jobsincare.com/job/jbnsJiXV
If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website ( www.jobsincare.com/job/jbnsJiXV ).
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