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Job overview

The post holder will work as an effective member of the Primary Care Team in providing healthcare services, including medication administration to the patients.  They will deliver care within the boundaries of their role, focussing on supporting patients to be healthy; monitoring of long-term conditions, health promotion and screening and responding to emergencies.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

• Administer medication and adhere to statutory and organisational requirements and guidelines relating to this
• Provide advice to prisoners about their medications
• Check medication charts and cross off out of date prescriptions and order prescription renewals
• Undertake risk assessments of prisoners for ‘In-Possession’ medication
• Refer problems relating to clinical the clinical management of a patient to the appropriate clinician
• Respond to healthcare emergencies within the prison
• Undertake basic observations (BP, pulse, blood glucose, temperature, SATS) as required and respond to abnormalities accordingly
• Recognise signs and symptoms of drug and alcohol withdrawal and support individuals who have substance misuse problems.
• Support patients who are distressed and could be at risk of harm to themselves or others or who are at risk of suicide
• Identify shortfalls and overages in stock levels, equipment failure and liaise with appropriate staff to reconcile
• Work collaboratively with the team to meet the needs of patients with specified long term conditions by providing quality evidence based care
• Assist with stock control and equipment checking (All clinical areas and emergency bags)
• Undertake such duties as may be reasonably required from time to time, as are consistent with the responsibility and scale of the post
• Support the promotion of health and wellbeing of prisoners
• Assist with clerical and administrative duties as required

Working for our organisation

We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. 
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.