Band 8A Clinical Pharmacist

Are you a Clinical Pharmacist seeking a new challenge? Have you got experience working within a Prison, Hospital or Community Setting?
Service Care Solutions are recruiting for a Band 8a Clinical Pharmacist to support Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust to provide medicines optimisation services and support the GPs and dispensary/ Pharmacy team at HMP Channing's Wood/ HMP Dartmoor. This is a LOCUM opportunity with a Prison setting, for a minimum of 3 months with likely extension.
Job Purpose: Band 8a Pharmacist
Pay Rate: £47.21 PAYE p/h + £250 WELCOME BONUS
Location: HMP Channing's Wood
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 07:30-17:30 (flexible)
Key Responsibilities:

• 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 well being team:
  • Identify patients at risk of admission to hospital and work to manage medicine-related risk for these patients.
  • Implement improvements to patient's medicines for LTCs, including de-prescribing and run LTC clinics where medicines are a large component 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.

Requirements:

• Master's degree of Pharmacy of equivalent
• Registered with the GPhC
• Evidence of CPD
• Previous Prison/Hospital/Community Pharmacy experience in the UK

Benefits

• Four weekly payroll runs
• £250 training allowance
• Excellent pay rates
• Exceptional referral bonuses
• Specialists mental health consultants offering single point of contact
• Frequent notifications for upcoming opportunities via text and email
• Ltd & PAYE payment options available
• Nationwide provider of mental health staff to over 40 different NHS trusts offering mental health services and over 200 local authorities.
• FREE DBS disclosures provided via fast track online services
• FREE Occupational Health Check and Immunisations

Are you happy with your current agency? At SCS, we believe in rewarding your loyalty and hard-work!

• £150 Agency Switch Bonus - If you're unhappy with your current agency or simply fancy a change, Service Care Solutions will give you £150 for bringing your current contract to us.
• £250 Welcome Bonus - We are offering a Welcome Bonus of £250, paid after completion of 150 hours in your new placement.
• £250 Referral Bonus - Simply refer your friend. If they get the role, we'll give you £250. That's £1000 if you refer 4 friends - easy money whilst helping out your friends and family!