Bank Pharmacist

About The Role

UNLOCK YOUR BEST WORK LIFE

+ MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO EVERY LIFE

We have an exciting opportunity for a Bank Pharmacist to join our Pharmacy team at HMP Bullingdon. HMP Bullingdon is a category B Prison located in Bicester, Oxfordshire. The prison houses around 1,110 patients with a variety of complex mental health and physical needs.

Within this role you will be delivering clinical screening and structured medication reviews. You will work closely with the multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of high quality prison pharmaceutical service.

Monday to Friday – 8:30 – 16:30

This is a bank position with an hourly salary of £36.00 per hour

• Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course
• Competency framework
• Regional and national career development opportunities
• Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
• Support from the wider team

Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks.

• Provide expert clinical advice on medicines and poly-pharmacy in line with expected standards, ensuring that safe, modern medicines management and medicines optimisation service are provided to patients.
• Deliver an integrated, safe, legal and high quality prison pharmacy service, which will be part of a comprehensive healthcare package based on the prison population needs.
• Inspire positive and aspirational leadership to the team of pharmacy technicians and the wider healthcare team in order to create and maintain a good working environment and facilitate staff retention.
• Promote good practice in all prescribing decisions to develop and implement improved medicines management understanding throughout the prison healthcare team.
• Share information relating to pharmaceutical products, medicines management, medicines optimisation, medicines legislation and general health education so that patients and the healthcare teams are appropriately informed.

If you are interested in career development, we have a wide range of opportunities for you to develop your skills and experience, which include both internal and external options for development and learning.

• Discounts on shopping and leisure activities
• Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development
• 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We're the UK's leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.

Practice Plus Group's purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:

• we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
• we act with integrity
• we embrace diversity
• we strive to do things better together

We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.

• Registered Pharmacist – holding registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Vocational Master’s Degree in Pharmacy including pre-registration training.
• Relevant post qualification.
• You will have a real passion for developing your Pharmaceutical skills and those of your team.

Although not essential, this would ideally suit an applicant with at least 1 year experience in a hospital setting.

Secure environments are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work. If you're looking for a role where you can develop your existing healthcare skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this could be the right opportunity for you.