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Management Responsibilities

1. To supervise the day-to-day work of the pharmacy technician when on site in the allocated prisons.
2. To manage your own time efficiently whilst on prison visits.

Clinical

To undertake scheduled clinical visits to each of the prison in the allocated cluster. On these visits you will:

1. 1. undertake MUR’s for offenders identified as requiring assistance by healthcare staff.
   2. 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.
   3. provide scheduled clinics for offenders to give advice and support on their prescribed medicines, OTC medicines and other medical issues they may raise
   4. Monitor prescribing trends and give advice to healthcare staff to improve prescribing in line with formulary choices and/or current clinical thinking.
   5. Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines or promotions.
   6. To attend the allocated cluster clinical governance/medicines management committee(s) and provide information with the assistance of the Specialist Prisons Pharmacist.
   7. To work closely with the primary care providers to ensure safe prescribing, use, storage and transport of medicines within the secure environments.
   8. To highlight to the specialist prison services pharmacist where Patient Group Directions (PGDs) may be useful in the allocated cluster. To train nursing staff in your allocated cluster 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.
   9. To liaise with the specialist prison services pharmacist to review PGDs in use every 1-2 years on a rolling basis as determined by the senior pharmacist prison services.
   10. To assist the specialist pharmacist prison services to introduce new prescribing guidelines/medicines within the allocated cluster prisons.
   11. To demonstrate on-going continual professional development (CPD) and be responsible for self-development and learning within the field of pharmacy or other speciality where appropriate.

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).