Job Description

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? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.



As part of the Kent Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Medicine Management Technician to join our friendly team at HMP Rochester.



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 wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.



As part of our primary care team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.



Overview of the Post

To (1) provide a medicines management service to allocated prison(s), (2) administer medicines on the house blocks against valid prescriptions to offenders



Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. 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 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.



We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.



Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:



We're Kind



We're Fair



We Listen



We Care



Management responsibilities



To manage own workload when providing medicines management services.



To supervise and enhance training opportunities for new members of staff and students.



To utilise time management skills in order to plan and manage workload within the team.



Clinical

To provide

Medication Administration services as allocated for the prison.

Participate in monthly clinical visits to the allocated prison(s), under the professional supervision of a pharmacist. undertake a stock top-up service for all areas in which medicines are stored.

Review the expiry dates and storage facilities for all such medicines and report any deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist for that prison.

Assist the prison service pharmacist to provide advice to prisoners and staff about the appropriate use of medicines.

Undertake 3-monthly controlled drugs stock checks, when necesary and report any issues to the Lead Pharmacy Techician and Lead Pharmacist under the supervision of Oxleas Prisons Pharmacy (OPS)Undertake monthly medicines management audits using AIM electronic system, when necessary under the supervision of Oxleas Prisons Services (OPS).



Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines or promotions.



Administer medicines to offenders against a valid prescription on the house blocks. Recognise clinical signs of withdrawal, under the influence, overdose, being aware of needs of medication omitting for clinical reasons.



Complete in possession risk assessment (IPRA) and be aware of policies and procedures in place to monitor.



Adhere to ACCT ( Assessment in Care and Custody Team Working) policies and procedures and attend review meetings.



Deliver accurate and timely record keeping with basics keyboard skills using System1 templates and processes.



To demonstrate on-going continual professional development (CPD) and be responsible for self-development and learning within the field of pharmacy or other specialty where appropriate.



Research

To participate in clinical and departmental audits as required.



To participate in any quality improvement projects.



Assisting with the implementation of any new ideas and updates to SOP's.



Communication

Internally:

Pharmacy staff, prison staff, primary care staff, prison mental health service staff, IDTS and CARAT teams, prison security staff.

Externally:

GP surgeries, Community Pharmacies, Hospitals



Use the summary care record for medicine reconciliation.



Liaison with home care team services.



Custodial Responsibilities

Assume personal responsibility for the security of issued keys.



Understand and comply with prison orders, procedures, and instructions in your area of work.



Comply with all security requirements.



Respond to any situation or circumstance that might indicate a threat to security of the establishment or to the safety of an individual, completing Incident, Security, Injury, or other reports as appropriate.



Report breaches of order and discipline including reporting and recording untoward incidents according to local protocol.



Contribute to effective risk assessment and management procedures.

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.

You will need to provide:

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.

Address History:

5 years address history will be needed.



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.



Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.



In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants



If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en)