Address If you are looking for a chance to demonstrate your clinical skills and want to improve services through driving change, this post could be for you. The post holder will be responsible for leading and developing the clinical Pharmacy team and providing GP Pharmacist services to Wandsworth Prison. The post holder will also be overseeing the clinical development of the junior pharmacists within the establishment and will be supported by the Specialist Prison Lead Pharmacist for HMP Wandsworth. The post-holder will be based at the dedicated pharmacy department at HMP Wandsworth.
The Pharmacy department has a long history of innovation, with established prescribing guidelines, excellent relationships with medical staff, a strong culture of leading clinical audit and research projects and an excellent publication record.
This role is Monday to Friday - 9am to 5pm duties.
Overview of the Post
To provide medicines optimisations services and support the Specialist Lead Pharmacist at HMP Wandsworth.
Oxleas – About Us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. 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 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent and manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital in Woolwich as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are one of the largest providers of prison health services providing healthcare to prisoners across 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
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
To support the Specialist Lead Pharmacist when required.
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 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.
To support in the dispensary when on the rota.
Support the audit process in line with Oxleas NHSFT audit programme including and disseminate findings appropriately to improve prescribing practice.
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 from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
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 ).
