Pharmacy Assistant to Medicine Management Technician Development Role

NHS; Borough of Swale; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job description

Pharmacy Assistant to Medicine Management Technician Development Role

We are pleased to announce an exciting development opportunity within our Offender Healthcare Directorate at HMP Swaleside.

The successful candidate will receive full funding to participate in the Buttercups Course - Pharmacy Technician Training Programme (Non-Apprenticeship Pathway), enabling progression from a Band 3 Pharmacy Assistant to a Band 5 Medicine Management Technician. We are also able to accept candidates who are already doing this course and transfer this over.

The course must be completed within two years of starting. During this period, the successful candidate will be expected to work as part of the team under the Band 3 Pharmacy Assistant JD, undertaking clinical and patient-facing responsibilities while they study.

Once the course has successfully completed, the candidate will follow the roles and responsibilities on the Band 5 Medicine Management Technician JD.

Main duties of the job

1. Issue repeat prescriptions (supervised and in possession prescriptions) within a timely manner ensuring compliance with the policy.
2. Deal with prescription management queries from a range of healthcare professionals including GP's, nurses, pharmacists, primary staff as well as reception/administration staff at HMP Elmley.
3. Check risk assessments are completed routinely according to in possession policy Kent and raise queries appropriately with the primary care team if risk assessments are due.
4. Review in possession status of each patient upon each prescription request and issue repeat prescriptions according to risk assessment.
5. Respond appropriately to changes in possession status of prescriptions.
6. Working closely with the prescribing GP Pharmacist, act upon any relevant prescribing changes.
7. Any other prescription or medicines management related duties as reasonably requested.

The above list of duties is not exhaustive and may be subject to change as deemed necessary.

About us

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 Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

Sponsorship is not available for this post.

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).

To deal with telephone inquiries from primary care and pharmacy staff at HMP Swaleside, dealing with questions about prescriptions and management of prescriptions and referring issues on to other staff if required according to local SOPs.

To communicate with other pharmacy staff within the pharmacy department to resolve issues where items requested for dispensing are out of stock and will be delayed.

Custodial Responsibilities

1. Assume personal responsibility for the security of issued keys.
2. Understand and comply with prison orders, procedures, and instructions in your area of work.
3. Comply with all security requirements.
4. 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.
5. Report breaches of order and discipline including reporting and recording untoward incidents according to local protocol.
6. Contribute to effective risk assessment and management procedures.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• Maths and English GCSE grade A-C (or equivalent)
• Vocational Level 3 or equivalent

Experience

• Previous prison/hospital/community pharmacy experience
• Experience of working with clinical software systems SystmOne and JAC I.T. Systems

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

• Cooperative and adaptable approach
• Computer literate with excellent keyboard skills
• Self-starter, able to work on own initiative, following set procedures and protocol

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.