Band 5
Main area: Pharmacy
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Bank
Hours: Flexible working - 37.5 hours per week (bank / flexible)
Job ref: 277-BankPharmB5-HMPExe-A
Site: HMP Exeter
Town: Exeter
Salary: £32,324 Per annum pro-rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/01/2025 23:59
Job overview
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? 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 instill hope for patients' future resettlement back into the community. We deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy, and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model.
As part of our pharmacy team, you will work within a forward-thinking service, encouraging career and personal development to increase your clinical and interpersonal skills.
Main duties of the job
Working under the supervision of our Senior Pharmacy Technicians and Regional Pharmacists, you will contribute to 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.
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. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Provide a Medicines Management service to the allocated prison(s) on a weekly basis with the support of a prison services pharmacist.
* Oversee the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions.
* Supervise assistants in the dispensary in providing dispensing services for all the prisons.
* Dispense prescriptions and stock items when in the dispensary.
* Work towards accreditation as a checking technician and/or medicines administration.
* Ensure high standards of work in the dispensary and during prison visits, adhering to all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
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
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.
If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know when scheduling your interview date and time.
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.
Name: Dorota Wheeler
Job title: Regional Lead Pharmacist for Devon Prisons
Email address: dorota.wheeler@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01803 814688
#J-18808-Ljbffr