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 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. As part of our pharmacy service (OPS), you will enjoy the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward‑thinking service that encourages career and personal development to increase clinical and interpersonal skills.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
* To provide a medicines optimisation service to the prison.
* To provide a medicines administration service to offenders at the medicines administration times as part of a 7 day per week rota.
* To undertake medicines reconciliation for prisoners admitted to the prison.
* To supervise assistants, when in the dispensary in providing dispensing services.
* To be an accredited checking technician providing final dispensing checks or medicines optimisation qualification.
* To ensure high standards of work in the dispensary, in clinics and for when out on the wings and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.
* To assist the Senior Prisons Technician with writing, updating and monitoring the use of medicines optimisation SOPs.
Requirements and Qualifications
* 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 (including 1 photographic ID), Proof of address documentation. Non‑UK passport holders will need 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 in English from where they resided previously.
* Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for more than six months in the last three years must provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.
* Disability Confident: A Disability Confident employer will typically offer an interview to any applicant who declares a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
About Oxleas and the Role
Oxleas Prison Services Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and provides the pharmacy services to the prison contracts. We are delivering pharmacy services (OPS Ltd) and Healthcare Services to prisons in multiple regions and are recruiting to newly established posts. Oxleas Prison Services Ltd and Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust have a long history of innovation, with prescribing guidelines, clinical audits and research projects. All of these attributes are extended to the prison pharmacy and healthcare services. Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings, including district nursing, speech and language therapy, and care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care. Our multidisciplinary teams work with NHS partners, local councils and the voluntary sector. Our 4,300 staff work across hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, and community settings. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services.
Important information: 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 pre‑employment checks. You will need to provide: proof of right to work, proof of ID, proof of address, and any additional documents as required. Non‑UK passport holders may need a Home Office Share code and English police checks as applicable.
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