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-B
Site: HMP Exeter, Town Exeter
Salary: £32,324 Per annum pro-rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/03/2025 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, 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 Exeter.
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 improve well-being and support better outcomes.
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 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 the 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 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.
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 and 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 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 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.
* 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.
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 you 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 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.
We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview if they have any questions about the role or the process.
Please note that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prohibited during the interview process.
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: Dorota Wheeler
Job title: Regional Lead Pharmacist for Devon Prisons
Email address: dorota.wheeler@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01803 814688
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