Senior Prison Services Technician

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Borstal; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in England seeks a compassionate and knowledgeable Senior Pharmacy Technician to manage the Medicines Management Service in a prison setting. This role requires supervision of staff and the administration of medications to offenders, contributing to improving lives through effective healthcare services. The position encourages personal and professional development within the NHS framework.

Benefits

NHS pension

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• A senior pharmacy technician position with experience in offender healthcare preferred.
• Experience managing medicines administration in a healthcare setting.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Medicines Management Service at the allocated prison.
• Administer and supervise the administration of medicines to offenders.
• Supervise junior staff in medicines management.

Skills

Compassionate care

Knowledge of medicines management

Supervision skills

Education

Relevant pharmacy qualification

Job description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• To manage on a daily basis the Medicines Management Service at allocated prison.
• Manage the medicines administration as well as the printing and coordination of the repeat prescription process.
• Administer medicines to offenders against a valid prescription on the house blocks.
• Supervise the junior medicine management staff.

Role location and team

This post is based at HMP Rochester/Cookham Wood but will require close working relationships with colleagues at nearby Kent prisons; HMP Maidstone and HMP East Sutton Park, cross-cover may occasionally be required.

As part of the Kent Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Senior Pharmacy Technician's to join our friendly team at HMP Rochester. As part of our primary care team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.

About Oxleas and our 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: o We\'re Kind o We\'re Fair o We Listen o We Care