Job summary
Thank you for taking an interest in our Bank Senior Prison Services Technician. We hope that you find this overview useful and look forward to receiving your application.
Our healthcare departments operate across seven prisons each of which require a bespoke service responding to the prisoner and prison needs:
Prison
Location
Category
Population
Healthcare
HMP Elmley
Isle of Sheppey
'B' Remand
1,200 (male)
24/7
Inc. Inpatient Unit
HMP Swaleside
'B' High Security
1,200 (male)
HMP Standford Hill
'D' Open
500 (male)
Standard
HMP Rochester/ HMP Cookham Wood
Rochester
'C'
650 (male)
24/7
HMP Maidstone
Maidstone
'C'
500 (male)
24/7
HMP E Sutton Park
'D' Open
100 (female)
Standard
The seven prisons are located across three estates, Isle of Sheppey, Rochester and Maidstone, with the Isle of Sheppey prisons being with a few minutes' walk from each other and East Sutton Park approximately 7 miles from Maidstone.
This role is on the Trust Bank and availability of work is not guaranteed
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a dedicated Pharmacy Technician To: (1) manage on a daily basis the Medicines Management Service atallocated prison, (2) manage the medicines administration as well as the printing and coordination of the repeat prescription process. (3) Administer medicines to offenders against a valid prescription on the house blocks. (4) Supervise the junior medicine management staff.
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 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
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please complete:
Key Task and Responsibilities To provide a medicines management service to the allocated prison(s) on a daily basis with the professional support of a prison services pharmacist.
To oversee the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions.
To utilise stock supplies and out of hours supplies when patients own medication is not available.
To have accreditation as a checking technician and/or medicines optimisation.
To ensure high standards of work and that Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.
To facilitate the medication supply on repeat prescriptions (using System1), this will include tasking GPs/NMPs to generate repeat prescriptions, ensure they are signed and given to pharmacy promptly with in the Repeat Prescription management process.
To supervise and assist primary care staff to ensure prompt medicine administration times are adhered to.
To be competent in advising patients in all aspects of their medication to ensure adherence and compliance. This should, include but not be exclusive to, inhaler technique, interaction, mechanism of drug action/normal doses regimen, side effects.
To ensure high standards of work in Primary Care and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Oxleas and Oxleas Prison Services Policies including Standards of Medicine Management, IP Policy, Homely Remedies Policy are read, understood, and adhered to.
To have, or work towards, an awareness/knowledge of medicines information to support adherence and compliance by using BNF, BNF-e, e-MC, Medicines information line and other recognized sources of information.
Please see JD&PS for further information
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please complete:
Key Task and Responsibilities To provide a medicines management service to the allocated prison(s) on a daily basis with the professional support of a prison services pharmacist.
To oversee the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions.
To utilise stock supplies and out of hours supplies when patients own medication is not available.
To have accreditation as a checking technician and/or medicines optimisation.
To ensure high standards of work and that Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.
To facilitate the medication supply on repeat prescriptions (using System1), this will include tasking GPs/NMPs to generate repeat prescriptions, ensure they are signed and given to pharmacy promptly with in the Repeat Prescription management process.
To supervise and assist primary care staff to ensure prompt medicine administration times are adhered to.
To be competent in advising patients in all aspects of their medication to ensure adherence and compliance. This should, include but not be exclusive to, inhaler technique, interaction, mechanism of drug action/normal doses regimen, side effects.
To ensure high standards of work in Primary Care and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Oxleas and Oxleas Prison Services Policies including Standards of Medicine Management, IP Policy, Homely Remedies Policy are read, understood, and adhered to.
To have, or work towards, an awareness/knowledge of medicines information to support adherence and compliance by using BNF, BNF-e, e-MC, Medicines information line and other recognized sources of information.
Please see JD&PS for further information
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent
- Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician
Experience
Essential
- 5 Years previous experience of working in a pharmacy
Desirable
- Min 4 years prison or hospital pharmacy experience
- 2 years mental health experience
Skills
Essential
- Good knowledge of working within a set of SOPs
- Ability to use (or learn to use) computer packages including Pharmacy Manager/ JAC and Microsoft
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent
- Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician
Experience
Essential
- 5 Years previous experience of working in a pharmacy
Desirable
- Min 4 years prison or hospital pharmacy experience
- 2 years mental health experience
Skills
Essential
- Good knowledge of working within a set of SOPs
- Ability to use (or learn to use) computer packages including Pharmacy Manager/ JAC and Microsoft
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
