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Main area: Prisons Pharmacy
Grade: 5
Contract: Bank
Hours: Flexible working - 37.5 hours per week (Bank / Flexible)
Job ref: 277-BankPharmB5-HMPGM-A
Site: HMP Guys Marsh, Town: Shaftesbury
Salary: £32,324 Per annum pro-rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/02/2025 23:59
Job Overview
Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative, and fast-paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.
Oxleas NHS Trust was awarded the South West prison contract in 2022 and currently has a portfolio of 19 prisons across the South of England. We are looking to expand our pool of bank workers by recruiting Pharmacy Technicians to work within the Prison service on a flexible basis.
Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison, using skills and strategies that instill 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 well-being and support better outcomes in the future.
Main Duties of the Job
As a Pharmacy Technician, you will provide 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 while supervising assistants 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.
Working for Our Organisation
Oxleas – About Us
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 through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in various settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools, and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in various 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, 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 Listen
* We Care
Detailed Job Description and Main 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 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.
Person Specification
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
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. If you meet the minimum criteria for this role and have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.
If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Carly Fudgell
Job title: Recruitment & Retention Resourcing Officer
Email address: carly.fudgell@nhs.net
If you'd like to explore opportunities to work for us, please submit an expression of interest form. Our HR team will keep in touch with you to find the right opportunity.
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