Medicine Management Technician

Location: Isle of Sheppey – HMP Swaleside

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week

Salary: AFC Band 5 £31,970-£38,483 including RRP

We are proud to be working with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust who have recently been voted by the Sunday Times as one of the Best Places to Work 2023.

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Medicine Management Technician to join the team at HMP Swaleside.

Oxleas Prison Services Ltd

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.

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.

We believe in supporting our staff to develop to their full potential.

What will you be doing?

·      Manage on a daily basis the Medicines Management Service

·      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.

·      To ensure safe supply and administer medication to the patients

·      To promote and ensure high standards of work to all Medicines Management staff 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.

What do you need?

• NVQ Level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent
• Accredited Checking Technician Certificate
• Registration with the GPhC as a pharmacy technician

Desirable:

·      NVQ A1 assessors award

·      ACT Facilitator

What next?

If this is a role you’re interested in, and you want to join the team and help make a difference, please click on the apply button. You will be redirected to a page where you can enter your details, answer a few questions about your experience, and attach your CV. Someone will then be in touch with you to provide you with next steps.



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