Part - Time Pharmacist - HMP Eastwood Park Wotton-under-Edge, England
Job description
About The Role
Have you thought about working within prison healthcare?
We are looking for a qualified Pharmacist who will be responsible for providing a specialist clinical pharmacy service to the prison, ensuring high quality, safe, effective, legal and accurate use of medicines. You will also have key responsibility of supporting and supervising the pharmacy technicians also working at HMP Eastwood Park.
The main focus of the work will be to provide a dispensary and wing based clinical pharmacy service and work with the Pharmacist on providing medicines management support to a number of different wings. The ability to work in a highly stressful and pressurised environment is key.
About You
You will work in a truly integrated team with the chance to see individual care through from start to finish. As we are committed to CPD for our nursing staff, we also offer regional and national development opportunities as well as access to our bespoke Learning Management system.
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.
Experience of working in a secure environment would be beneficial but not essential.
You’ll receive an annual salary of up to £51,500 pro rata and dependent on experience. We offer a whole host of additional benefits such as: cycle to work scheme, free DBS check, free uniform, an extensive training and development structure for all employees along with an employee recognition scheme.
About Us
Practice Plus Group is a specialist provider of NHS services into prison healthcare. From October 2022, we will be the recognised provider of 52 different prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We believe in putting the patient first, regardless of the environment or their history. The prison population is one of the most vulnerable and challenged patient groups in society and the delivery of their health care is conducted within often demanding environments.
Practice Plus Group were recently awarded the healthcare contract at HMP Eastwood Park and will begin delivering services in October 2022. Our Wellbeing Approach is an integrated, comprehensive model of care that recognises women in prison often require specific health and wellbeing interventions that take account of their gender as well as their individual circumstances and needs. It adopts the premise no single health/wellbeing factor can be taken in isolation, ensuring the delivery of holistic, patient-centred care.
Practice Plus Group’s mission is Access to Excellence. Our core values are;
- 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.
- Patients can only access excellence if we commit to living our values in everything we do when we’re at work.
If you share these values and have transferable skills we want to meet you.
