Medicine Management Technician

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

Overview

To work under the direction of nurses to deliver and constantly strive to improve primary care services. To administer medicines on the house blocks against valid prescriptions to offenders. To promote effective links with health and related services in the community to ensure continuity of care as appropriate.

Responsibilities

• To provide a medicines management service to the allocated treatment area on a daily basis.
• To oversee the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions.
• To oversee the supply of stock medication supply to the allocated treatment area.
• To have accreditation as a checking technician and/or medicines optimisation.
• To ensure high standards of work on the allocated treatment area and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.

About Oxleas and Services

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. 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