Clinical Pharmacist - Offender Healthcare

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Borstal, Medway

Clinical Pharmacist - Offender Healthcare

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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Borstal, Medway

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 4 days ago, 28 Dec | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: d6fcab270da04a62b7938365193b273f

Full Job Description

We are seeking a experienced Clinical Pharmacist to provide medicines optimisations services and support the GPs and dispensary team at HMP Rochester., 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 forpatients As part of the health and wellbeing team Identify patients at risk of admission to hospital and work to managemedicine-related risk for these patients Implement improvements to patients medicines for LTCs, includingde-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 programmeincluding and disseminate findings appropriately to improve prescribingpractice

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