Prisons Services Clinical Pharmacist - HMP Channings Wood

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. As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Prison Services Clinical Pharmacist to join our friendly team at HMP Channing Woods on Bank. 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 a Prison Services Clinical Pharmacist on Bank, you will be acting as the GP Pharmacist for HMP Channings Wood. You will be providing medicines optimisations services and support the GP's and dispensary teams on site at the prison(s). You will be working closely with patients to support them with any medicine queries and concerns, run medication review clinics, and provide your clinical expertise when required. Using SystemOne, you will devise and implement searches to identify cohorts of patients who may be at high risk of harm from medicines and/or more likely to be at risk of unplanned admission to hospital from medicines. You will then be required to work with these patients to manage medicine-related risk. You will be implementing improvements to patients' medicines for LTC's, such as de-prescribing, running LTC clinics, etc.. You will be providing leadership to the wider healthcare team to ensure practice is compliant, developing and managing new services that are built around new medicines or NICE guidelines, and working with the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist to develop and enforce the formulary. You will be co-ordinating and managing the workload within the prison(s) and providing your clinical proficiency to more junior team members as and when required. You will analyse, interpret and present medicines data, provide leadership on areas of prescribing requiring improvements and present results of audits/suggest changes.

Working for your organisation 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
• We Listen
• We Care