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Job overview

If you wish to gain experience in medicines management and administration work in a prison setting, this post could be for you. The post-holder will provide medicines management services to healthcare. They will be an integral part of the pharmacy team as well as the HMP Swaleside Healthcare Team.

The post-holder will be based at healthcare departments HMP Swaleside. 

The post holder will be required to:

• Manage on a daily basis the Medicines Management Service at HMP Swaleside.
• Manage the medicines administration as well as the printing and coordination of the repeat prescription process.

Oxleas Prison Services Ltd

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is a mental health and community trust that provides a wide and growing range of services across the boroughs of Bexley, Greenwich and Bromley and also services in Kent. Oxleas Prison Services Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and provides the pharmacy services to the prison pharmacy contracts.

The pharmacy department has a long history of innovation, with established prescribing guidelines, excellent relationships with medical staff, a strong culture of leading clinical audit and research projects and an excellent publication record. All of these attributes we wish to extend to the prison pharmacy services.

We believe in supporting our staff to develop to their full potential.

**Please note: previous applicants need not apply** 

Shift pattern to include weekends

Main duties of the job

• To organise and manage the day-to-day running of the pharmacy mediated Medicines Management services at HMP Swaleside, reporting any immediate issues to the GP Pharmacist Sheppey and any significant issues to the Lead Prison Services Pharmacist for Kent.
• To ensure safe supply and administer medication to the patients at HMP Swaleside.
• To promote and ensure high standards of work to all Medicines Management staff in HMP Swaleside and ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.
• To assist the GP Pharmacist with writing, updating and monitoring the use of SOPs.
• To ensure, on a daily basis, that all pharmacy operations are within the requirements of the GPhC.
• To ensure systems are in place and to carry out the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions.

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