Bank Pharmacist

NHS; Bicester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

Join the NHS as a Bank Pharmacist at HMP Bullingdon, where you will provide clinical expertise in a challenging yet rewarding environment. This role requires a registered pharmacist who can work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high-quality pharmaceutical care for the prison population.

Benefits

Bespoke induction

Career development opportunities

Learning Management System access

Support from a wider team

Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacist with General Pharmaceutical Council registration.
• Passion for pharmaceutical skills development.
• Experience in a hospital setting preferred.

Responsibilities

• Deliver clinical screening and structured medication reviews.
• Provide expert clinical advice on medicines management.
• Ensure delivery of high quality prison pharmacy service.

Skills

Clinical screening

Medication reviews

Leadership

Education

BSc or Masters Degree in Pharmacy

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Bank Pharmacist to join our Pharmacy team at HMP Bullingdon. HMP Bullingdon is a category B Prison located inBicester, Oxfordshire.The prison houses around 1,110 patients with a variety of complex mental health and physical needs.

Within this role you will be delivering clinical screening and structured medication reviews. You will work closely with the multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery ofhigh quality prison pharmaceutical service.

Hours

Monday to Friday - 8:30 - 16:30

This is a bank position with an hourly salary of £29.75

How will we support you?

Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course

Competency framework

Regional and national career development opportunities

Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs

Support from the wider team

Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks.

Main duties of the job

You will be a qualified Registered Pharmacist- BSc or Masters Degree in Pharmacy, holding registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council. You will have a real passion for developing your Pharmaceutical skills and those of your team. Youll have a flexible approach to working within a team that encourages new ideas.

About us

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. Were the UKs leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.

Practice Plus Groups purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:

• we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
• we act with integrity
• we strive to do things better together

We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.

Requirements

• Registered Pharmacist - holding registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy including pre-registration training

Although not essential, this would ideally suit an applicant with at least 1 years experience in a hospital setting.

Secure environments are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work. If youre looking for a role where you can develop your existing healthcare skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this could be the right opportunity for you.

Job responsibilities

As a clinical pharmacist with Practice Plus Group you will;

Provide expert clinical advice on medicines and poly-pharmacy inline with expected standards, ensuring that safe, modern, medicines managementand medicines optimisation service are provided to patients.

Deliver an integrated, safe,legal and high quality prison pharmacy service, which will be part of acomprehensive healthcare package based on the prison population needs.

Inspire positive and aspirational leadership to the team ofpharmacy technicians and the wider healthcare team in order to create andmaintain a good working environment and facilitate staff retention.

Promote good practice in all prescribing decisions to develop andimplement improved medicines management understanding throughout the prisonhealthcare team.

Share informationrelating to pharmaceutical products, medicines management, medicinesoptimisation, medicines legislation and general health education so thatpatients and the healthcare teams are appropriately informed.

Person Specification

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.