Position Overview
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? As part of the Kent Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Substance Misuse Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly team at HMP Elmely.
Responsibilities
* Provide a medicines management service to allocated prison under the care of the Substance misuse clinical team, administer medicines against valid prescriptions to Clinical Substance Misuse offenders
* Work under the direction of senior staff to deliver and constantly strive to improve Substance Misuse care services.
* Provide health care based on the principles of timely, comprehensive assessment and evidence-based practice.
* Reduce or mitigate the effects of unhealthy or high risk behaviours.
* Promote effective links with health and related services in the community to ensure continuity of care as appropriate.
* Implement changes in policies as required
* Provide advice to prisoners and staff about the appropriate use of medicines within scope of knowledge.
Important Sponsorship Information
We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
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