Overview
Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison, using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients’ future resettlement back into the community. We deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse services in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes.
As part of our pharmacy service (OPS), you will benefit from NHS AfC employment (including pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service that encourages career and personal development to increase clinical and interpersonal skills.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Responsibilities
* Provide a medicines management service to patients within the prison with professional support from a prison service pharmacist.
* Administer medicines to patients against valid prescriptions, ensure correct administration, and provide advice on appropriate use of medicines to support healthy lifestyles and rehabilitation.
* Dispense prescriptions and stock items, supervise assistants in the dispensary, and undertake stock control tasks (top-ups, expiry date reviews, storage facility checks).
* Report any deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist and participate in stock management processes.
Requirements
* Role: Pharmacy Technician within the prison health setting, providing a medicines management service under the supervision of a prison service pharmacist.
* Experience of dispensing and stock control within a pharmacy environment is preferred.
* Ability to engage with patients and provide clear, patient-centred information about medicines and healthy lifestyles.
* Strong teamwork skills to work within an integrated healthcare delivery model.
* Commitment to professional development and progression opportunities within the service.
* Please note: Sponsorship restrictions apply as stated above.
About Oxleas
Oxleas – About Us: Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environments. 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 and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 staff work in settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We operate over 125 sites in the South of England, including London boroughs and Kent. We manage hospital sites such as Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, and the Bracton Centre, a medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services, delivering care across multiple regions and settings. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families, reinforced by our values: We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen, We Care.
Additional information
For further details or informal visits contact:
Name: Emmie Arbury
Job title: Pharmacy Operations Manager
Email: emmie.arbury1@nhs.net
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