Prison Services Pharmacy Technician – Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
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Overview
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?
This is an excellent opportunity for a pharmacy technician to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is efficient and deeply centred on the patient. 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.
We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future. This position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.
**Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post**
Key Responsibilities
* Provide medicines optimisation services to the prison.
* Provide medicines administration service to offenders at the medicines administration times as part of a 7‑day per week rota.
* Undertake medicines reconciliation for prisoners admitted to the prison.
* Supervise assistants when in the dispensary providing dispensing services.
* Act as an accredited checking technician providing final dispensing checks or medicines optimisation qualification.
* Ensure high standards of work in the dispensary, in clinics and when out on the wings and ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.
* Assist the Senior Prisons Technician with writing, updating and monitoring the use of medicines optimisation SOPs.
Essential Qualifications
* NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent.
* Registration with the GPhC as a pharmacy technician.
* Evidence of continuous professional development (CPD).
Desirable Qualifications
* Working towards Accredited Checking or MM Technician Certificate.
Experience
* 2 years’ experience of working in a pharmacy.
* Previous prison or mental health pharmacy experience (desirable).
Skills and Abilities
* Good knowledge of working within a set of SOPs.
* Ability to use (or learn to use) computer packages including Pharmacy Manager / JAC and Microsoft Office.
* Some understanding of mental illness and substance misuse and their treatment (desirable).
* Ability to use initiative to problem‑solve (desirable).
Important Information
* 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.
* Applicants must provide proof of right to work, a photographic ID, proof of address and, where applicable, a Home Office share code and correct documentation for non‑UK passport holders.
* 5 years of address history may be required.
* Non‑UK passport holders with less than 5 years of UK address history will need to provide a police certificate in English.
* UK passport holders who have lived abroad for more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English.
* Guidance for obtaining a police certificate can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants.
* This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.
* Applications from job seekers requiring current skilled worker sponsorship will be considered. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
Job Details
Band 5 – £31,049 to £37,796 per year (inc)
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 277-7401445-BRIS-A
Location: HMP Bristol, 19 Cambridge Road, Bristol, BS7 8PS
Employer
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust – http://oxleas.nhs.uk/
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