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 South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are looking for compassionate, knowledgeable, and motivated Pharmacy Assistants to join our friendly team at HMP Portland.
Our healthcare team has 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. As a Pharmacy Assistant, you will contribute towards the smooth and efficient running of the pharmacy service on site within the prison. This will include all aspects of stock control (routine ordering, receipt of goods, computer input, storage of medicines), dispensing clinically screened prescriptions, and dispensing weekly/monthly in possession medication to patients.
Key Responsibilities:
To be responsible for the day-to-day ordering, receiving, and unpacking of pharmaceutical products from suppliers according to GDP and departmental SOPs. To ensure that medicines are sourced in a timely manner. To accurately use the pharmacy computer system to receive goods into the pharmacy store according to departmental SOPs. To act as second checker for administration of Controlled Drugs by registered healthcare professionals. To carry out regular stock checks, expiry date checks, and other monitoring procedures such as logging fridge and ambient temperatures. To ensure high standards and accuracy of work and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to. To ensure medicines returned from clinical areas are sorted and either returned to stock or disposed of safely and appropriately. To undertake administration of weekly and monthly In Possession medication to patients. To ensure that all work carried out in procurement is done in accordance with current legislation, including GDP and departmental and Trust financial procedures. To manage Medicines Optimisation work in treatment areas ensuring tasks are carried out in a timely manner. To communicate routinely with the Pharmacy/Healthcare department to place orders and chase receipt of goods. To deal with telephone queries and staff visiting the department as first point of contact. To communicate with external regulatory bodies as necessary. To appreciate the secure environment you are working in and to adhere to all prison procedures as necessary. To undertake any other tasks at the request of the senior prison services pharmacist. Requirements:
Post holders will need to undertake a prison security check (level 2) prior to being employed, as well as the standard NHS recruitment checks. Ideally, applicants will have an NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Services; however, we will accept applicants who have healthcare experience and are interested in being put through the NVQ L2 by Oxleas. 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. Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.
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To be responsible for the day-to-day ordering, receiving, and unpacking of pharmaceutical products from suppliers according to GDP and departmental SOPs. To ensure that medicines are sourced in a timely manner. To accurately use the pharmacy computer system to receive goods into the pharmacy store according to departmental SOPs. To act as second checker for administration of Controlled Drugs by registered healthcare professionals. To carry out regular stock checks, expiry date checks, and other monitoring procedures such as logging fridge and ambient temperatures. To ensure high standards and accuracy of work and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to. To ensure medicines returned from clinical areas are sorted and either returned to stock or disposed of safely and appropriately. To undertake administration of weekly and monthly In Possession medication to patients. To ensure that all work carried out in procurement is done in accordance with current legislation, including GDP and departmental and Trust financial procedures. To manage Medicines Optimisation work in treatment areas ensuring tasks are carried out in a timely manner. To communicate routinely with the Pharmacy/Healthcare department to place orders and chase receipt of goods. To deal with telephone queries and staff visiting the department as first point of contact. To communicate with external regulatory bodies as necessary. To appreciate the secure environment you are working in and to adhere to all prison procedures as necessary. To undertake any other tasks at the request of the senior prison services pharmacist. Requirements:
Post holders will need to undertake a prison security check (level 2) prior to being employed, as well as the standard NHS recruitment checks. Ideally, applicants will have an NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Services; however, we will accept applicants who have healthcare experience and are interested in being put through the NVQ L2 by Oxleas. 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. Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.
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