To provide medicines optimisations services and support the GPs at HMP ISIS by acting as a Non-Medical Prescriber.
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, Bromley, Kent and the South West of England. Oxleas Prison Services Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and provides the pharmacy services to the prison pharmacy contracts.
Prisons healthcare can be one of the most challenging, yet rewarding professions to work in. The pharmacy department has a long history of innovation, with established policies and procedures in line with National Guidelines governing patient care within a prison setting.
- 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 wellbeing team:
- Identify patients at risk of admission to hospital and work to manage medicine-related risk for these patients.
- Implement improvements to patients 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
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. 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 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, 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: Zerin Erdogan Job title: Lead Pharmacist Email address: zerin.erdogan@nhs.net