As part of our pharmacy service (OPS), 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.
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is a mental health and community trust that provides a wide and growing range of services across the boroughs of Bexley, Greenwich and Bromley and also services in Kent. 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 to the Wandsworth Prison and are recruiting to newly established posts.
The pharmacy department 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 services.
Main duties of the job
If you are a 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 team.
We are looking for candidates with the following qualifications:
* Accredited Checking Technician (ACT) qualifications
The post-holder will be based at the pharmacy department at HMP Wandsworth.
We believe in supporting our staff to develop to their full potential.
Job responsibilities
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
* To provide a medicines optimisation service to HMP Wandsworth with the professional support of a prison services pharmacist.
* To undertake medicines reconciliation for prisoners admitted to HMP Wandsworth. To dispense prescriptions and stock items when in the dispensary.
* To work towards accreditation as a checking technician and/or medicines optimisation to provide final dispensing checks and medicines administration services.
* To ensure high standards of work in the dispensary, in clinics and when out on the wings and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services
* Registered with GPhC
* Working towards ACPT
Experience
* 2 years+ work experience
* Prison/ mental health experience
Skills/Knowledge
* Work independently
* Takes responsibility
* Ability to work under pressure
* Understanding of substance misuse/mental health
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.
£31,944 to £43,780 a year pa inc, range is bottom band 4 - top band 5.
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