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 not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient. Our healthcare team have 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 patient's 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.
Key Responsibilities
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post. 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.
* Dispense prescriptions and stock items, supervising assistants when in the dispensary.
* Perform stock control, including stock top‑up services, reviewing expiry dates and storage facilities for all medicines, and reporting any deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist.
* Provide a 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 in 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.
Qualifications & Requirements
* Willingness 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.
* Proof of right to work documentation, proof of ID (1 photographic ID), proof of address documentation, and appropriate documentation for non‑UK passport holders.
* 5‑year address history; applicants who are UK passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years must provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English.
* A working knowledge of medicines administration, dispensing, stock control and SOP adherence.
Support & Inclusivity
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 you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme. Please ensure you select this on your application form and let us know any adjustments you may need for the interview process.
Application Process & Additional Information
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): If you choose to use AI or other tools to assist in writing your application, it is essential to personalise this information. AI‑generated job applications may be generic and could negatively impact your chances. The use of AI or other tools is prohibited during the interview process.
You are likely to be tested on your experience at interview, so be honest and ensure all the information in your application is correct.
Working for 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 and through our new provider collaboratives.
Values
* We’re Kind
* We Listen
* We Care
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