Medicines Management Technician – Prison Health Aylesbury

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Responsibilities:Clinical Practice

1. Assist in the delivery of a high-quality dispensing service to HMP Aylesbury, ensuring medicines are dispensed to agreed standards, calculating doses and quantities for supply. Including the supply of medicines in Monitored Dosage Systems.
2. Ensure that pharmacy technical operations (ordering, handling, storage and disposal of medicines) are undertaken in a safe, secure and efficient manner that complies with medicines legislation and good practice
3. Liaise with other members of the healthcare team (including doctors, consultants and nurses), providing medicines related guidance, to reduce medicines errors.
4. Provide medication on an individual patient basis, effectively delivering complex information and advice to prescribers, patients and carers where necessary. This may involve use of negotiation and persuasion skills in order to overcome barriers.
5. Support healthcare staff to ensure prescribing and administration of medicines takes place in accordance with local policy.
6. Ensure patient related records are kept up to date.
7. Provide medicines education and information to patients including undertaking non- compliance clinics to improve medicines adherence.
8. Contribute to pharmacy audits / reports by collating data information and supporting with the implementation of any action plan(s) as an outcome
9. Act as an Accredited Checking Technician following appropriate training and accreditation.
10. Work as a member of the wider healthcare team to administer medication to patients when required.
11. Provide a second check for the administration of controlled drugs when required.
12. Assist with the purchase of medicines and equipment ensuring this is cost effective to the Trust.
13. Review prescriptions to ensure medicines are available for patients at the correct time and place.
14. Undertake in-possession risk assessments.
15. Help reduce waste by evaluating returned medicines and patient own medicines for reuse.
16. Audit the controlled drug record keeping across the prison.
17. Dispensing stock-controlled drug requisitions to clinical areas ensuring legislation and local procedures are followed.
18. Maintain up to date stock lists for all treatment areas ensuring they reflect current requirements
19. Participate in Medicines reconciliation process
20. Participating in Medicines Management checks for clinical areas within the Prison

Person Specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

• NVQ Pharmacy Services or equivalent recognised qualification
• Registered Practicing Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

• Accredited Checking Technician

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

• Previous experience working as a Pharmacy Technician
• Experience of work-based medicines management

• Experience of hospital pharmacy
• Previous experience of working in a mental health environment

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES

• Sound Therapeutic and clinical knowledge
• Ability to work along or as part of a team

• Good understanding of clinical governance

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Aylesbury

Bierton Road

Aylesbury

HP20 1EH

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work