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Main area: Offender Healthcare
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (4 day weeks 0730-1730 and every other weekend)
Job ref: 277-6830956-ELM-A
Site: HMP Elmley, Town: Sheerness
Salary: £39,338 - £46,962 pa inc
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/01/2025 23:59
Job overview
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 and 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.
Main duties of the job
* 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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main 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.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
* To organise and manage the day-to-day running of the pharmacy mediated Medicines Management services at HMP Standford Hill.
* 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.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
* NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent
* Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician
* NVQ A1 assessors award
Experience
* 6 years experience of working in a pharmacy
* Minimum of 4 years prison or hospital pharmacy experience
* 2 years mental health experience
Skills
* Knowledge and experience of checking dispensed prescriptions
* Good knowledge of writing and working within a set of SOPs
* Ability to use computer packages including Pharmacy Manager/ JAC and Microsoft
* Some understanding of mental illness and substance misuse and their treatment
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. If you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Clare Denny
Job title: Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer
Email address: claredenny@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07504877653
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