Job summary
Pharmacy Technician - Prison Services (Medicines Management/ Medicines Optimisation) Band 4/5 working at one of our sites - HMP Exeter
If you are an accredited medicines management pharmacy technician wishing 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 the prison house blocks on rotation. You will also work in the dispensaries. You will be an integral part of the pharmacy and healthcare team.
The post-holder will be based at one of the Devon Prisons. Please specify in your application.
- Provide a medicines management service to allocated prison(s)
- Administer medicines on the house blocks against valid prescriptions to offenders
- Work in the dispensary, as required.
Main duties of the job
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
- To provide a Medicines Management service to the allocated prison(s) on a weekly basis with the professional support of a prison services pharmacist
- To oversee the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions
- To supervise assistants, when in the dispensary in providing dispensing services for all the prisons
- To dispense prescriptions and stock items when in the dispensary
- To work towards accreditation as a checking technician and/or medicines administration to provide final dispensing checks and medicines administration services, if not already achieved
- To ensure high standards of work in the dispensary and when out on prison visits 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: o We're Kind o We're Fair o We Listen o We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
Oxleas Prison Services Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and provides the pharmacy services to the prison pharmacy contracts. Due to the recent contract award from NHS England, we are now providing pharmacy services (OPS Ltd) and Healthcare Services (Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust) to the Devon and Dorset Prisons and are recruiting to newly established posts. Oxleas Prison Services Ltd and Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust 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. All of these attributes we wish to extend to the prison pharmacy and healthcare services.
Management Responsibilities
- To manage own workload when providing medicines management services.
Clinical
- To provide weekly clinical visits to the allocated prison(s), under the professional supervision of a pharmacist. On these visits the post-holder will:
- undertake a stock top-up service for all areas in which medicines are stored.
- review the expiry dates and storage facilities for all such medicines and report any deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist for that prison
- assist the prison service pharmacist to provide advice to prisoners and staff about the appropriate use of medicines
- undertake 3-monthly controlled drugs stock checks and report any issues to the prison service pharmacist for that prison
- Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines or promotions.
- Administer medicines to offenders against a valid prescription on the house blocks
- 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.
Research
- To participate in clinical and departmental audits as required.
Other
- Post holders will be subjected to an advanced DBS check, a prison security check (level 2) and CTC clearance prior to being employed.
- To appreciate the secure environment you are working in and to adhere to all prison procedures as necessary.
- To undertake any other tasks at the request of the Lead Prison Services Pharmacist.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Oxleas Prison Services Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and provides the pharmacy services to the prison pharmacy contracts. Due to the recent contract award from NHS England, we are now providing pharmacy services (OPS Ltd) and Healthcare Services (Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust) to the Devon and Dorset Prisons and are recruiting to newly established posts. Oxleas Prison Services Ltd and Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust 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. All of these attributes we wish to extend to the prison pharmacy and healthcare services.
Management Responsibilities
- To manage own workload when providing medicines management services.
Clinical
- To provide weekly clinical visits to the allocated prison(s), under the professional supervision of a pharmacist. On these visits the post-holder will:
- undertake a stock top-up service for all areas in which medicines are stored.
- review the expiry dates and storage facilities for all such medicines and report any deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist for that prison
- assist the prison service pharmacist to provide advice to prisoners and staff about the appropriate use of medicines
- undertake 3-monthly controlled drugs stock checks and report any issues to the prison service pharmacist for that prison
- Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines or promotions.
- Administer medicines to offenders against a valid prescription on the house blocks
- 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.
Research
- To participate in clinical and departmental audits as required.
Other
- Post holders will be subjected to an advanced DBS check, a prison security check (level 2) and CTC clearance prior to being employed.
- To appreciate the secure environment you are working in and to adhere to all prison procedures as necessary.
- To undertake any other tasks at the request of the Lead Prison Services Pharmacist.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent
- Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable
- Working towards Accredited Checking or MM Technician Certificate
Experience
Essential
- 2 years' experience of working in a pharmacy
Desirable
- Previous prison or mental health pharmacy experience
Skills and abilities
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
Desirable
- Ability to use initiative to problem solve
- Some understanding of mental illness and substance misuse and their treatment
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent
- Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable
- Working towards Accredited Checking or MM Technician Certificate
Experience
Essential
- 2 years' experience of working in a pharmacy
Desirable
- Previous prison or mental health pharmacy experience
Skills and abilities
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
Desirable
- Ability to use initiative to problem solve
- Some understanding of mental illness and substance misuse and their treatment
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).
