Bank Prison Services Pharmacy Technician - HMP Exeter, Band 5
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.
As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are looking for compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Pharmacy Technicians to join our friendly team on bank at HMP The Verne.
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.
As part of our pharmacy team, you will work within a forward-thinking service that encourages career and personal development for all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
Main duties of the job
Working under the supervision of our Senior Pharmacy Technicians and Regional Pharmacists, you will contribute towards the smooth and efficient running of the pharmacy and medicines management service on site within the prison. This will include:
* All aspects of stock control (routine ordering, receipt of goods, computer input, storage of medicines).
* Requesting and managing prescriptions and dealing with patients' medication requests.
* Working out of Medication Administration Points (Meds hatches) on the wings and in the healthcare department, administering medication to patients or acting as the second checker for controlled drug administration.
Job responsibilities
* To provide a Medicines Management service to the allocated prison(s) on a weekly basis with the professional support of a prison services pharmacist.
* To oversee the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions.
* To supervise assistants in the dispensary in providing dispensing services for all the prisons.
* To dispense prescriptions and stock items when in the dispensary.
* To work towards accreditation as a checking technician and/or medicines administration to provide final dispensing checks and medicines administration services, if not already achieved.
* To ensure high standards of work in the dispensary and when out on prison visits, and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.
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.
Minimum Requirements
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.
* 5 years address history will be needed.
* 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.
In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registration with GPHC as a Pharmacy Technician
Experience
* Experience of working within a pharmacy
* Previous prison or mental health Pharmacy experience.
* Knowledge and experience of checking dispensed prescriptions
Skills/Knowledge
* Ability to use (or learn to use) computer packages including Pharmacy Manager, JAC, and Microsoft
* Some understanding of mental illness and substance misuse and their treatment.
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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