Senior Prison Services Technician (Band 6) - Prisons - Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Sheerness; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job description

Senior Prison Services Technician (Band 6) - Prisons - Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust – Sheerness, Kent

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 Elmley Healthcare Team.

The post-holder will be based at healthcare departments HMP Elmley.

The post holder will be required to:

• manage on a daily basis the Medicines Management Service at HMP Elmley
• 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.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• To organise and manage the day-to-day running of the pharmacy mediated Medicines Management services at HMP Elmley, 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 Elmley.
• To promote and ensure high standards of work to all Medicines Management staff in HMP Elmley 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 Elmley.
• To manage and coordinate repeat prescriptions.
• To monitor the performance of the medicines optimisation technicians when placed at HMP Elmley and implement remedial action should an issue arise.

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.
• 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.

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