Clinical Pharmacist - NHS

Job overview

If you have a clinical background in mental health or prison pharmacy and are looking for an opportunity to expand pharmacy prison services, this post could be for you. You will work with a small pharmacy team, including a medicines management technicians for your prison as well as providing responsible pharmacist support to the dispensary.

The post-holder will be based at the dedicated pharmacy departments at HMP Wandsworth.

Due to the recent contract award from NHS England we are now providing pharmacy services to the Wandsworth Prison.

The post holder will be employed by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and seconded to Oxleas Prison Services Pvt. Ltd.

Our Pharmacy Departments have a long history of innovation, with established prescribing guidelines, excellent relationships with medical staff as well as a strong culture of leading clinical audit and research projects.

We believe in supporting our staff to develop to their full potential.

• To reconcile medicines at reception and upon discharge from hospital; identify, rectify unexplained changes and manage these changes with and without referring to the GP as appropriate.
• To produce a post-release medication care plan as required, to be relayed to community GP and Community Pharmacist or healthcare centre of prison if the patient is transferred to it.
• The care plan should include dosing information, including dose titration, follow-up tests.
• Liaise with the community Pharmacy to ensure patients receive the medication they need, post discharge.
• Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medication supply to high risk groups of patients e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or other disabilities that may have implications for medicines optimisation.
• Work in partnership with hospital colleagues to proactively manage patients at high risk of medicine related problems, if they are under the care of such
• Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-emptive, targeted SystmOne search.
• Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with hospital admissions and re-admissions through audit and individual patient reviews.
• To assist the clinical Pharmacist for Repeat prescribing and MURs as needed.

Working for our organisation

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 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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To devise and implement SystmOne computer searches to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines.
• To devise and implement SystmOne searches to identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk of unplanned admission/readmission to hospital from medicines.
• To provide leadership to the Head of Healthcare and Clinicians to ensure that practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
• As part of the Health and Wellbeing model, to contribute to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations and adult immunisation programmes using specialist knowledge on immunisation. To ensure all relevant PGDs for immunisation are in place and staff authorised to administer using a PGD have receive the relevant training.
• Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
• Identify and provide leadership on areas of the discharge pathway requiring improvement. Present results of audits and provide leadership on suggested changes.
• Provide education and training to the primary healthcare team on discharge pathways, medicines management and optimisation.
• Support the Specialist Prison Service Pharmacist in providing education and training to the pharmacy team members as required.
• Identify from SystmOne patients prescribed medication that should be prescribed or initiated by Specialists/hospital doctors or subject to shared care and liaise directly with hospital colleagues to ensure prescribing and dispensing of such medicines is appropriately undertaken and adheres to the requirements of the secure environment.
• Assist in the development of prison formulary, in liaison with other OPS colleagues, and ensure this is updated onto SystmOne locally when changes are made.
• Manage the process if implementing changes to medicines resulting from MHRA alerts and product withdrawals and provide guidance for practitioners.

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 photographic ID

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 [...]

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 (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).

Person specification

Qualifications

• Diploma in general pharmacy practice/clinical Pharmacy/mental health or equivalent

Experie

• 2years plus experience in community, prison, hospital

Qualifications

• Registered with the GPHC
• Masters of Pharmacy

We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.

If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview, if they have any questions about the role or the process. This is a great way to get clarity and prepare effectively for the interview.

Thank you.