Pharmacy Technician ACT | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 19 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £30,407 - £36,581 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 May 2024 |
| Location: | Rochester, ME1 3QS |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6244839/277-6132176-MED-A |
Summary
To provide a medicines management service to allocated prisons; work in the dispensary at HMP Rochester Pharmacy and provide final accuracy checks on dispensed medicines as an accredited checking technician (ACT).
Key Task and Responsibilities
1. To provide a medicines management service to allocated prisons on a weekly basis with the professional support of a prison services pharmacist.
2. To oversee the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions.
3. To supervise assistants, when in the dispensary in providing dispensing services for all the prisons.
4. To be an accredited checking technician (ACT) providing final accuracy checks.
5. To ensure high standards of work in the dispensary and when out on prison visits and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.
6. To assist the senior prisons technician with writing, updating and monitoring the use of medicines management SOPs.
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 supervise the pharmacy assistants when working within the dispensary at HMP Rochester Pharmacy.
• To manage own workload when providing medicines management services.
Clinical
• To provide weekly clinical visits to the allocated prisons, under the professional supervision of a pharmacist. On these visits you will:1. Undertake a stock top-up service for all areas medicines are stored within the prison.
2. Review the expiry dates and storage facilities for all such medicines and report any deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist for that prison.
3. Assist the prison service pharmacist to provide advice to prisoners and staff about the appropriate use of medicines.
4. Undertake 3 monthly controlled drugs stock checks and report any issues to the Prison Service Pharmacist for that prison.
• Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines or promotions.
• 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.
Other
• To appreciate thesecure environment you are working in and to adhere to all prison procedures as necessary.
This advert closes on Monday 6 May 2024
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