Service Care Solutions Ltd
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Band 8a Clinical Pharmacist

Are you a Clinical Pharmacist seeking a new challenge? Have you got experience working within a Prison, Hospital or Community Setting?

Service Care Solutions are recruiting for a Band 8a Clinical Pharmacist to support Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust to provide medicines optimisation services and support the GPs and dispensary/ Pharmacy team at HMP Channing's Wood/ HMP Dartmoor.

This is a LOCUM opportunity with a Prison setting, for a minimum of 3 months with likely extension.

Job Purpose: Band 8a Pharmacist
Pay Rate: £47.21 PAYE p/h + £250 WELCOME BONUS
Location: HMP Channing's Wood
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 07:30-17:30 (flexible)

Key Responsibilities:



  • 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 well being team:

    • Identify patients at risk of admission to hospital and work to manage medicine-related risk for these patients.

    • Implement improvements to patient's 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.

  • Support the audit process in line with Oxleas NHSFT audit programme including and disseminate findings appropriately to improve prescribing practice.



Requirements:



  • Master's degree of Pharmacy of equivalent

  • Registered with the GPhC

  • Evidence of CPD

  • Previous Prison/Hospital/Community Pharmacy experience in the UK


Benefits



  • Four weekly payroll runs

  • £250 training allowance

  • Excellent pay rates

  • Exceptional referral bonuses

  • Specialists mental health consultants offering single point of contact

  • Frequent notifications for upcoming opportunities via text and email

  • Ltd & PAYE payment options available

  • Nationwide provider of mental health staff to over 40 different NHS trusts offering mental health services and over 200 local authorities.

  • FREE DBS disclosures provided via fast track online services

  • FREE Occupational Health Check and Immunisations




Are you happy with your current agency? At SCS, we believe in rewarding your loyalty and hard-work!



  • £150 Agency Switch Bonus - If you're unhappy with your current agency or simply fancy a change, Service Care Solutions will give you £150 for bringing your current contract to us.

  • £250 Welcome Bonus - We are offering a Welcome Bonus of £250, paid after completion of 150 hours in your new placement.

  • £250 Referral Bonus - Simply refer your friend.

    If they get the role, we'll give you £250.

    That's £1000 if you refer 4 friends - easy money whilst helping out your friends and family!