Senior Pharmacy Technician | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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.

Due to our ongoing success as the healthcare provider at HMP Portland, we are currently expanding opportunities due to additional commissioned services. We are currently looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Senior Pharmacy Technicianto join our friendly team at HMP Portland.

Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.

As part of our Pharmacyteam, 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.

As a Senior Pharmacy Technician you will be responsible for the daily management of the medicines management service at HMP Portland. This will include overseeing a team of 4 Pharmacy Technicians and 3 Pharmacy Assistant, ensuring all daily duties are carried out, complete supervisions and 121’s, and completing PDRs and appraisals.

You will manage the medicines administration service as well as the printing and coordination of the repeat prescription process. You will administer medicines to patients against a valid prescription on the wings and support junior colleagues with any queries relating to medicines administration.

You will work closely with the Regional Pharmacist to participate in audits, quality improvement projects, developing any implementation of service improvements and updates to SOP’s., * To provide a medicines management service to the allocated prison(s) on a daily basis with the professional support of a prison services pharmacist.

• To oversee the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions.

• To utilise stock supplies and out of hours supplies when patients own medication is not available.

• To have accreditation as a checking technician and/or medicines optimisation.

• To ensure high standards of work and that Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.

• To facilitate the medication supply on repeat prescriptions (using System1), this will include tasking GP’s/NMP’s to generate repeat prescriptions, ensure they are signed and given to pharmacy promptly with in the Repeat Prescription management process.

• To supervise and assist staff to ensure prompt medicine administration times are adhered to.

• To be competent in advising patients in all aspects of their medication to ensure adherence and compliance. This should, include but not be exclusive to, inhaler technique, interaction, mechanism of drug action/normal doses regimen, side effects.

• To ensure high standards of work and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Oxleas and Oxleas Prison Services Policies including – Standards of Medicine Management, IP Policy, Homely Remedies Policy are read, understood, and adhered to.

• To have, or work towards, an awareness/knowledge of medicines information to support adherence and compliance by using BNF, BNF-e, e-MC, Medicines information line and other recognized sources of information.

• To escalate any concerns about patients and their medication – including non-compliance – to appropriate staff and within confidentiality guideline, including concerns of patients who need support from the Mental Health Team, Substance mis-use team or Prison staff.

• Controlled Drugs – to order, monitor and maintain all legal paperwork concerning medication patients with controlled drugs in accordance with local policy.

• Cool chain management and administration of fridge line medication – to ensure daily fridge temperatures checks are completed and recoded and any breaches of the cold chain are escalated according to SOP/Policy.

• To use System1 to document any information about patients and their medication- non-compliance/non- attendance (intentional and unintentional), allergies and raise concerns with appropriate staff/teams.

• To use System1 to create ledgers and call up lists for patients to attend Healthcare/Houseblock treatment rooms to facilitate medicines administration daily.

• Record keeping – to ensure all policies and protocols are adhered to and documented on S1 as well as keeping meticulous paper records.

• To Administer medicines to offenders against a valid prescription on the house blocks/Healthcare safely and promptly whilst adhering to all policies and SOP’s using S1 to facilitate this.

• To use Datix to report any incidents or concerns.

• To have knowledge of the Critical medication List- to administer critical medication when required and report any concerns/non-compliance to appropriate teams /staff.

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.

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., Disability Confident

About Disability Confident

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country.Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).