Medicine Management Technician

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is seeking a Pharmacy Technician to deliver medicines management services in a secure setting. Responsibilities include administering medications, overseeing prescription processes, and maintaining high standards of work in compliance with SOPs. Candidates must have NVQ level 3 in Pharmacy Services and experience in prison healthcare systems. The role demands good communication skills and a commitment to continuous professional development.

Qualifications

• 2 years working in Pharmacy.
• Working towards Accredited Checking or MM Technician Certificate or equivalent experience/qualification.

Responsibilities

• Provide a medicines management service to the allocated treatment area.
• Administer medicines to offenders against valid prescriptions.
• Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders.

Skills

Good oral communication skills

Good interpersonal skills

Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Education

NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent

Evidence of CPD Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician

Tools

Experience Working with prison healthcare systems like SystmOne

Job description

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.

Main duties of the job

• 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 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 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 Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

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:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

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 (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).

Management Responsibilities:

• To manage own workload when providing medicines management services on the allocated treatment area.

Clinical:

• To provide:

a) Medication Administration services as allocated on the allocated treatment area.

b) undertake a stock top-up service for all areas in which medicines are stored.

c) review the expiry dates on prescriptions and ensure expired medications are returned back to pharmacy.

d) provide advice to prisoners and staff about the appropriate use of medicines.

e) Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines or promotions.

• Administer medicines to offenders against a valid prescription on the allocated treatment area.
• Act as a role model to team members and students so that offenders receive best practice care at all times.
• To demonstrate on-going continual professional development (CPD) and be responsible for self-development and learning within the field of pharmacy or other specialty where appropriate.

Professional

• To ensure registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) is maintained at all times.
• Adhere to the GPhC Code of Conduct.
• To remain informed about new legislation, guidance, national initiatives, research and departmental developments, so as to contribute to ones own and others learning.
• To positively promote best practice within the team and across the service, in the management of offenders with enduring mental health problems and offenders in crisis.

Research

• To participate in clinical and departmental audits as required.
• Demonstrate the ability to initiate and maintain positive change within own and other areas

Communication

• Internally: primary care staff, integrated mental health service staff, CGL and pharmacy team, prison security staff.
• Complete a Mercury Intelligence report (MIR) for security related issues.

Custodial Responsibilities:

• Assume personal responsibility for the security of issued keys.
• Understand and comply with prison orders, procedures, and instructions in your area of work.
• Comply with all security requirements.
• Respond to any situation or circumstance that might indicate a threat to security of the establishment or to the safety of an individual, completing Incident, Security, Injury, or other reports as appropriate.
• Report breaches of order and discipline including reporting and recording untoward incidents according to local protocol.
• Contribute to effective risk assessment and management procedures.

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

• NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent
• Working towards Accredited Checking or MM Technician Certificate or equivalent experience/qualification
• Evidence of CPD Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician

Experience

• 2 years working in Pharmacy

Skills

• Good oral communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Good knowledge of working within a set of SOPs
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Experience Working with prison healthcare systems like SystmOne

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.