Bank Medicine Management Technician HMP

Thank you for taking an interest in our Medicine Management Technician bank position. We hope that you find this overview useful and look forward to receiving your application.

Our healthcare departments operate across seven prisons each of which require a bespoke service responding to the prisoner and prison needs:

Prison

Location

Category

Population

Isle of Sheppey

'B' Remand

1,200 (male)

24/7

'B' High Security

1,200 (male)

HMP Standford Hill

'D' Open

500 (male)

Standard

'C'

650 (male)

24/7

HMP Maidstone

Maidstone

'C'

500 (male)

24/7

HMP E Sutton Park

'D' Open

100 (female)

Standard

The seven prisons are located across three estates, Isle of Sheppey, Rochester and Maidstone, with the Isle of Sheppey prisons being with a few minutes' walk from each other and East Sutton Park approximately 7 miles from Maidstone.

This advert is to apply for a bank position to cover our HMP Rochester site specifically, however once you are on the bank you can pick up shifts across Kent prisons if you wish.

We are looking for dedicated Medicine Management Technicians To (1) provide a medicines management service to allocated prison(s), (2) administer medicines on the house blocks against valid prescriptions to offenders.

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 Listen
• We Care

Key Task and Responsibilities

To provide a medicines management service to the allocated prison(s) on a daily basis with the professional support of a prison services pharmacist.

To oversee the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions.

To utilise stock supplies and out of hours supplies when patients own medication is not available.

To have accreditation as a checking technician and/or medicines optimisation.

To ensure high standards of work and that Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.

To facilitate the medication supply on repeat prescriptions (using System1), this will include tasking GPs/NMPs to generate repeat prescriptions, ensure they are signed and given to pharmacy promptly with in the Repeat Prescription management process.

To assist primary care staff to ensure prompt medicine administration times are adhered to.

To be competent in advising patients in all aspects of their medication to ensure adherence and compliance. This should, include but not be exclusive to, inhaler technique, interaction, mechanism of drug action/normal doses regimen, side effects.

To ensure high standards of work in Primary Care and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Oxleas and Oxleas Prison Services Policies including Standards of Medicine Management, IP Policy, Homely Remedies Policy are read, understood, and adhered to.

To have, or work towards, an awareness/knowledge of medicines information to support adherence and compliance by using BNF, BNF-e, e-MC, Medicines information line and other recognized sources of information.

1. To escalate any concerns about patients and their medication including non-compliance to appropriate staff and within confidentiality guideline, including concerns of patients who need support from the Mental Health Team, Substance mis-use team or Prison staff.

2. Controlled Drugs to order, monitor and maintain all legal paperwork concerning medication patients with controlled drugs in accordance with local policy.

3. Cool chain management and administration of fridge line medication to ensure daily fridge temperatures checks are completed and recoded and any breaches of the cold chain are escalated according to SOP/Policy.

4. To use System1 to document any information about patients and their medication- non-compliance/non- attendance…