Senior Prison Services Technician

NHS; Borough of Swale; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Pharmacy Technician to join the medicines management team at HMP Swaleside. The post-holder will manage daily medicines administration and work closely with healthcare teams to deliver safe and effective pharmaceutical care. Applicants should have relevant experience in pharmacy and possess NVQ Level 3 along with GPhC registration.

Qualifications

• 5 years experience of working in a pharmacy.
• Minimum of 4 years prison or hospital pharmacy experience.
• 2 years mental health experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage the day-to-day running of the pharmacy mediated medicines management services.
• Ensure safe supply and administer medication to patients.
• Promote high standards of work to all Medicines Management staff.

Skills

Good oral and written communication skills

Good interpersonal skills

Good knowledge of writing and working within a set of SOPs

Education

NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent

Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician

Evidence of CPD

NVQ A1 assessors award

Job description

If you wish to gain experience in medicines management and administration work in a prison setting, this post could be for you. The post-holder will provide medicines management services to healthcare.

They will be an integral part of the pharmacy team as well as the HMP Swaleside Healthcare Team.

The post-holder will be based in our primary care team at HMP Swaleside.

The post holder will be required to:

• Manage on a daily basis the Medicines Management Service at HMP Swaleside.
• Manage the medicines administration as well as the printing and coordination of the repeat prescription process.

Oxleas Prison Services Ltd

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 and Bromley and also services in Kent. Oxleas Prison Services Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and provides the pharmacy services to the prison pharmacy contracts.

The pharmacy department has a long history of innovation, with established prescribing guidelines, excellent relationships with medical staff, a strong culture of leading clinical audit and research projects and an excellent publication record.

Please note: previous applicants need not apply

***Important Sponsorship Information for this post: Due to service budget restrictions we are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post***

Shift pattern to include weekends

Main duties of the job

• To organise and manage the day-to-day running of the pharmacy mediated Medicines Management services at HMP Swaleside, reporting any immediate issues to the GP Pharmacist Sheppey and any significant issues to the Lead Prison Services Pharmacist for Kent.
• To ensure safe supply and administer medication to the patients at HMP Swaleside.
• To promote and ensure high standards of work to all Medicines Management staff in HMP Swaleside and ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.
• To assist the GP Pharmacist with writing, updating and monitoring the use of SOPs.
• To ensure, on a daily basis, that all pharmacy operations are within the requirements of the GPhC.
• To ensure systems are in place and to carry out the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions.

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:

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 photographic ID
• 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.

Guidance for obtaining Police Certificates can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• To organise and manage the day-to-day running of the pharmacy mediated Medicines Management services at HMP Swaleside, reporting any immediate issues to the GP Pharmacist Sheppey and any significant issues to the Lead Prison Services Pharmacist for Kent.
• To ensure safe supply and administer medication to the patients at HMP Swaleside.
• To promote and ensure high standards of work to all Medicines Management staff in HMP Swaleside and ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.
• To assist the GP Sheppey Pharmacist with writing, updating and monitoring the use of SOPs.
• To ensure, on a daily basis, that all pharmacy operations are within the requirements of the GPhC.
• To ensure systems are in place and to carry out the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions.

Management responsibilities

• To manage the entire medicines management process at HMP Swaleside.
• To manage and coordinate repeat prescriptions.
• To monitor the performance of the medicines optimisation technicians when placed at HMP Swaleside and implement remedial action should an issue arise.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent
• Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician
• Evidence of CPD
• NVQ A1 assessors award

Experience

• 5 years experience of working in a pharmacy
• Minimum of 4 years prison or hospital pharmacy experience
• 2 years mental health experience

Skills

• Good oral and written communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Good knowledge of writing and working within a set of SOPs

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.

Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer

£39,338 to £46,962 a yearpa inc, inc RRP