Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?
Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well‑being for those in prison, delivering Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse services in an integrated model to improve wellbeing and support better future outcomes.
As a Pharmacy Technician you will be providing a medicines management service to patients within the prison with the professional support of a prison service pharmacist. You will administer medicines against a valid prescription, ensure that they are taken correctly, provide advice about the appropriate use of medicines and promote healthy lifestyles to aid rehabilitation.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
You will dispense prescriptions and stock items, supervise assistants in the dispensary, and undertake stock control activities such as top‑up services and reviewing expiry dates and storage facilities for all medicines, reporting any deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist.
Benefits
You will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (including pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward‑thinking service that encourages career and personal development for all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
Responsibilities
* Provide medicines management services to patients within the prison in partnership with a pharmacist.
* Administer medicines against valid prescriptions and ensure correct receipt.
* Provide advice to patients on appropriate use of medicines and healthy lifestyles.
* Dispense prescriptions and stock items.
* Supervise assistants in the dispensary.
* Perform stock control tasks, including top‑up services, reviewing expiry dates and storage conditions for all medicines.
* Report any deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist.
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