Prisons Services Clinical Pharmacist

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Sheerness; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist to support HMP Elmley. You will provide medicines optimisation services, support GP and dispensary teams, and conduct medication review clinics to optimise patient regimens.

You will identify and mitigate risks with high‑risk medicines, develop new services guided by NICE, and ensure CQC standards are met across medicines management in the prison setting.

Qualifications

• Medicines optimisation experience within NHS/clinical settings.
• Pharmacist with strong patient-facing skills and teamwork.
• Knowledge of clinical decision support and NICE guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Provide medicines optimisations services and support GPs and the dispensary team at HMP Elmley.
• Support patients with medicine queries and concerns.
• Undertake medication review clinics to optimise regimens.
• Stratify risk with high-risk medicines and work to reduce such risk for patients.
• Lead and ensure practice complies with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Skills

Medicines optimisation

Pharmacist practice

Clinical decision support

Patient counseling

Audit & governance

Job description

To provide medicines optimisations services and support the GPs and dispensary team at HMP Elmley.

• Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
• 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. 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.
• To support patients with their medicine queries and concerns.
• To undertake medication review clinics.
• To stratify risk with high-risk medicines and work to reduce such risk for patients.
• As part of the health and wellbeing team:
  • Identify patients at risk of admission to hospital and work to manage medicine-related risk for these patients.
  • Implement improvements to patients medicines for LTCs, including
  • de-prescribing and run LTC clinics where medicines are a largecomponent of care.
  • Develop and manage new services that are built around new medicines or NICE guidance.
  • To provide leadership to ensure practice within healthcare is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
  • Working with the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist, develop and enforce the formulary.
  • Support the audit process in line with Oxleas NHSFT audit programme including and disseminate findings appropriately to improve prescribing practice.
• Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

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: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants, Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. 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 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, 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