We are currently looking to expand our pool of bank workers by recruiting Pharmacy Technicians to work within the Prison service on a flexible basis.
Main duties of the job
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 to patients against a valid prescription, ensuring this is taken correctly, provide advice to patients about the appropriate use of medicines and promote healthy lifestyles to aid their rehabilitation.
You will dispense prescriptions and stock items, whilst supervising assistants when in the dispensary. There will also be elements of stock control involved in your role, such as undertaking stock top‑up services and reviewing expiry dates and storage facilities for all medicines, reporting any deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist.
Job responsibilities
* To provide a medicines optimisation service to the prison.
* To provide a medicines administration service to offenders at the medicines administration times as part of a 7 day per week rota.
* To undertake medicines reconciliation for prisoners admitted to the prison.
* To supervise assistants, when in the dispensary in providing dispensing services.
* To be an accredited checking technician providing final dispensing checks or medicines optimisation qualification.
* To ensure high standards of work in the dispensary, in clinics and for when out on the wings and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.
* To assist the Senior Prisons Technician with writing, updating and monitoring the use of medicines optimisation SOPs.
Qualifications
* NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent
* Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician
Experience
* Previous experience of working in a pharmacy
* Previous prison or mental health pharmacy experience
Skills
* Good knowledge of working within a set of SOPs
* Ability to use (or learn to use) computer packages including Pharmacy Manager, JAC and Microsoft
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.
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