About the role
Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? 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 well‑being and support better outcomes in the future. As part of our pharmacy service (OPS), you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward‑thinking service that encourages career and personal development for all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide a medicines administration service to offenders at medicines administration times as part of a 7 day per week rota.
* Undertake medicines reconciliation for prisoners admitted to the prison.
* Supervise assistants when in the dispensary providing dispensing services.
* Act as an accredited checking technician providing final dispensing checks or medicines optimisation qualification.
* Ensure high standards of work in the dispensary, in clinics and when out on the wings, and adhere to all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
* Assist the Senior Prisons Technician with writing, updating and monitoring the use of medicines optimisation SOPs.
Requirements & Eligibility
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
* 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.
Important Sponsorship Information
We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
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