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Job overview

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).

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

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