Are you ready tounlockyour potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want toescapeyour current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?
As part of the Kent Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS Trust in 2022, we are expanding recruitment and are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Substance Misuse Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly team at HMP Elmely.
Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well‑being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using 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 Substance misuse team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (incl. pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward‑thinking service that encourages career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post:
* To provide a medicines management service to allocated prison under the care of the Substance misuseteam, administer medicines against valid prescriptions to Clinical Substance Misuse offenders
* To work under the direction of senior staff to deliver and constantly strive to improve Substance Misuse care services.
* To provide health care based on the principles of timely, comprehensive assessment and evidence-based practice.
* To reduce or mitigate the effects of unhealthy or high risk behaviours.
* To promote effective links with health and related services in the community to ensure continuity of care as appropriate.
* To implement changes in policies as required
* Provide advice to prisoners and staff about the appropriate use of medicineswithin scope of knowledge.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
* To be the registered professional to accurately administer the prescribed medications to the Substance Misuse clinical patients on the recovery unit and outlying locations selecting the correct formulation and using accurate measurements with a second checker present.
* To accurately record and keep medication administration records on SystmOne up to date in a timely manner.
* Prescription management – ensuring continuing scripts are available to ensure continuous treatment and contingency prescriptions are kept up to date and liase with the dispensing pharmacy regarding the original prescription archiving.
* Controlled Drug management – Ordering, registers, stock checking, auditing, safe storage and managing those needed for destruction along with the prison pharmacist.
* Stock management of symptomatic and Non-CD medication stock supplies
* Naloxone training to staff or patients
* Develop clinical skills to provide further services and potential case load management.
* Participate in group work jointly with the Psychosocial team.
* To support and inspire colleagues within the service to improve standards and quality and to develop professional practice.
* Implement and evaluate care delivery for offenders with substance misuse needs, as delegated by senior staff.
* Understand partner organizations and work collaboratively to coordinate care.
* Develop areas of special interest in keeping with professional development and individual appraisal plans.
* Monitor offenders prescribed treatments and administer medications as required, in keeping with Medicines Management policies and protocols.
* Engage in supporting offenders to address their own health issues, actively participating in health promotion.
* Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines or promotions to enable offenders towards recovery and self-care.
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.
* Proof of right to work documentation
* Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
* Proof of address documentation
This advert closes on Monday 11 May 2026.
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