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 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 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. As part of our pharmacy service (OPS), you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward‑thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
Important Sponsorship Information
We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Job Overview
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.
Wondering what it's like to work within offender healthcare? “I really enjoy working in the Pharmacy Service for Oxleas, my role is extremely varied and I work within a very supportive team. I find my role rewarding as it is all about enabling patient's rehabilitation and I enjoy interacting with patients daily and building relationships with them. Oxleas are a good employer and there are plenty of opportunities to be supported through qualifications and training which then allows you to progress through different bands within the team.”
Key Responsibilities
* 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 for when out on the wings and to 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.
(Full JD can be downloaded in supporting documents section)
Essential Vetting & Documentation
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. You will need to provide:
* Proof of right to work documentation
* Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
* Proof of address documentation
* Non‑UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home Office Share code
* Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
* Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of 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 from the countries resided in or visited.
Disability Confident
Oxleas is a Disability Confident employer. We will generally offer an interview to any applicant who declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by us. It is important to note that, in certain recruitment situations such as high‑volume, seasonal and high‑peak times, we may limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to disabled and non‑disabled people. For more details please go to the Disability Confident page.
Our Values
* We’re Kind
* We’re Fair
* We Listen
* We Care
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