Bank Prison Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician

1 week ago

Exeter, United Kingdom Oxleas Nhs Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary Bank Prison Services Pharmacy Technician - HMP Exeter, Band 5 Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment?
Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?
Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.
As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Pharmacy Technician's to join our friendly team on bank at HMP The Verne.
Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients future resettlement back into the community.
We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
As part of our pharmacyteam, you will work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
Main duties of the job Working under the supervision of our Senior Pharmacy Technicians and Regional Pharmacists you will contribute towards the smooth and efficient running of the pharmacy and medicines management service on site within the prison.This will include: All aspects of stock control (routine ordering, receipt of goods, computer input, storage of medicines).Requesting and managing prescriptions and dealing with patients' medication requests.You will work out of Medication Administration Points (Meds hatches) on the wings and in the healthcare department, administering medication to the patients or acting as the second checker for controlled drug administration.
About us Oxleas - About Us 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 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.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.
This is strengthened by our new values: We're Kind We're Fair We Listen We Care Job description Job responsibilities To provide a Medicines Management service to the allocated prison(s) on a weekly basis with the professional support of a prison services pharmacist.
To oversee the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions.
To supervise assistants, when in the dispensary in providing dispensing services for all the prisons.
To dispense prescriptions and stock items when in the dispensary.
To work towards accreditation as a checking technician and/or medicines administration to provide final dispensing checks and medicines administration services, if not already achieved.
To ensure high standards of work in the dispensary and when out on prison visits and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.
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 photographicID 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: 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 () Person Specification Qualifications Essential NVQ Level 3 Pharmacy Services (or equivalent) Registration with GPHC as a Pharmacy Technician Desirable Accredited Checking Technician Certificate and/or Medicines Optimisation Accreditation Experience Essential Experience of working within a pharmacy Desirable Previous prison or mental health Pharmacy experience.
Knowledge and experience of checking dispensed prescriptions Skills/Knowledge Essential Ability to use (or learn to use) computer packages including Pharmacy Manager, JAC and Microsoft Desirable Some understanding of mental illness and substance misuse and their treatment.

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