Job Introduction
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, dynamic, and experienced Pharmacist to join our forward-thinking healthcare service within HMP Norwich on a part time basis.
You will provide medication review services to patients via clinics, deliver pharmaceutical care plans, and improve the quality of patient care and medicines optimisation as assigned by the Lead Pharmacist. The main focus of the work will be to provide a dispensary based clinical pharmacy service and work closely with the Lead Pharmacist on providing medicines management support to a number of different wings.
TPlease note that, in any case, the healthcare staff will not be expected to be responsible for or involved with prisoners' restraints.
Main Responsibility
You'll be responsible for the provision and delivery of an integrated, safe, legal, high-quality prison pharmaceutical service. Working closely with the Head of Healthcare and the multidisciplinary team, you'll be responsible for ensuring that the provision of service meets the contractual obligations.
The role also involves responsibility for providing daily expert advice on pharmaceutical matters and ensuring that a safe but modern medicines management service is provided to prisoners.
You will also be involved with:
- Undertaking clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for other clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring
- Reviewing the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation)
- Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence
- Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review
- To take professional responsibility when clinically screening prescriptions to ensure the accuracy, legality, safety and efficacy of prescribed medication, including liaising with prison GPs and nurses to resolve any queries arising from the screening process
The Ideal Candidate
While the experience is desirable, we would consider newly qualified pharmacist who are willing to dive into prison pharmacy and who are passionate about expanding their clinical knowledge.
You will be a qualified Registered Pharmacist- BSc or master’s degree in Pharmacy, holding registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council. You will have a real passion for developing your pharmaceutical skills and those of your team. You’ll have a flexible approach to working within a team that encourages new ideas.
If you are self-motivated and able to work autonomously as well as showing plenty of initiative when it comes to handling a wide range of situations, then this could be the right role for you!
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
Package Description
As a Clinical Pharmacist, you’ll be part of our valued team at HMP Norwich within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 7 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Free on site-parking at HMP Norwich
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
