Prisons services clinical pharmacist

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Prisons Services Clinical Pharmacist, Band 7

Full Time, 37.5 hours/week

Permanent

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is a mental health and community trust that provides a wide and growing range of services across the boroughs of Bexley, Greenwich and Bromley. Due to the recent contract award from NHS England we will also be providing pharmacy services to the Kent and Medway prisons and the Dover Immigration Removal Centre.

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. All of these attributes we wish to extend to the prison pharmacy services.

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

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. The post will be responsible for providing clinical services to a cluster of prisons from the Kent and Medway group and to be the clinical governance pharmacy lead for this group. You will work with a small pharmacy team, including a medicines management technician for your cluster of prisons as well as providing responsible pharmacist support to the dispensary.

The post-holder will be based at the dedicated pharmacy department at HMP Rochester, but will routinely visit prison sites in Kent and Medway.

To (1) provide clinical pharmacy services to the allocated prison cluster and support the pharmacy technician on these visits and (2) be a responsible pharmacist in the dispensary when rostered. To organize on a weekly basis the pharmacy clinical service provision to the allocated cluster of prisons, planning your work and the work of others.

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

This Is Strengthened By Our New Values

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sharon Seehra Job title: Kent Lead Pharmacist Email address: sharon.seehra@nhs.net Telephone number: 01634 803103