Prison Services Clinical Pharmacist

To organise on a weekly basis the pharmacy clinical service provision to the allocated prisons, planning your work and the work of others. To provide clinical services to the allocated prisons. To ensure you personally have high standards of work, both clinical and dispensing and follow all standard operating procedures (SOPs) as directed by the Lead Prison Services Pharmacist. To work as a team with the pharmacy technician in the allocated prisons and to support this technician professionally when on site. To implement the prison formulary, in collaboration with primary care colleagues. To generate monthly reports on drug expenditure for the allocatedprisons and to advise the prescribers on areas for improvement and efficiencies. To provide clinical screening and final accuracy checks when working in the dispensary. To ensure all work is carried out in a timely manner to meet the requirements of the delivery service across the prisons. To manage the day-to-day work of the pharmacy technician when on site in the allocated prisons. To manage your own time efficiently whilst on prison visits. To undertake scheduled clinical visits to the allocated prisons. On these visits you will: undertake MURs for offenders identified as requiring assistance by healthcare staff. Review the medication history of newly admitted offenders to ensure prescriptions are correct and if necessary make recommendations to bring prescribing in line with local formulary choices. Provide scheduled clinics for offenders to give advice and support on their prescribed medicines, OTC medicines and other medical issues they may raise. Monitor prescribing trends and give advice to healthcare staff to improve prescribing in line with formulary choices and/or current clinical thinking. Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines or promotions. To be an active member of clinical governance/medicines management committee(s). To work closely with the primary care providers to ensure safe prescribing, use, storage and transport of medicines within the secure environments. To liaise with the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist and assist in writing, in collaboration with primary care colleagues in the prison(s), Patient Group Directions (PGDs) when an appropriate use is identified. To train nursing staff in the prison(s) in the use of these PGDs and to monitor use/compliance on an on-going basis, reporting any discrepancies to the senior pharmacist prison services. To review PGDs in use every 1-2 years on a rolling basis as determined by the Lead Prison Services Pharmacist. To assist the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist to introduce new prescribing guidelines/medicines within the prison(s) To participate in the on-call rota (as necessary) to provide support and advice to the primary care teams when the pharmacy is closed and to liaise with local community pharmacies to dispense urgent medicines during these times. To demonstrate on-going continual professional development (CPD) and be responsible for self-development and learning within the field of pharmacy or other specialty where appropriate. To act as responsible pharmacist when rostered to do so in the dispensary. To dispense prescriptions and stock items when in the dispensary. To undertake clinical screening and final accuracy checks when working in the dispensary. To organise the sale of OTC medicines following a request from an offender in the allocated prison cluster. To make clinical judgments within your clinical ability where information is highly complex or lacking or ambiguity exists. Where such judgments are outside of your clinical ability to refer the situation to a more senior pharmacist for assistance. To communicate with the primary care team(s) in your allocated prisons to ensure the safe and secure prescribing, handling and storage of medicines. To ensure systems are in place that support the implementation of evidence-based guidelines into practice within the prison(s). To participate in clinical audit as required. To participate in the on-call rota, as required, to provide support and advice to the primary care teams when pharmacy is closed. To liaise with the local community pharmacies to dispense urgent medicines during these times. To appreciate the secure environment you are working in and to adhere to all prison procedures as necessary. 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 photographicID 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).

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