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Client:
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Location:
Bristol City, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
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Job Views:
7
Posted:
02.03.2025
Expiry Date:
16.04.2025
Job Description:
Job summary
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 Medicine Management Pharmacy Technicians to join our friendly team at HMP Bristol.
As part of our pharmacy service (OPS), you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (including pension) with the opportunity to 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
As a Pharmacy Technician, you will provide 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 about the appropriate use of medicines, and promote healthy lifestyles to aid their rehabilitation.
You will dispense prescriptions and stock items while supervising assistants 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.
Job responsibilities
* Provide a Medicines Management service to the allocated prison(s) on a weekly basis with the professional support of a prison services pharmacist.
* Oversee the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions.
* Supervise assistants 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 to provide final dispensing checks and medicines administration services, if not already achieved.
* Ensure high standards of work in the dispensary and when out on prison visits and adhere to all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
* Manage own workload when providing medicines management services.
* Provide weekly clinical visits to the allocated prison(s), under the professional supervision of a pharmacist.
* Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines or promotions.
* Administer medicines to offenders against a valid prescription on the house blocks.
* Demonstrate ongoing continual professional development (CPD) and be responsible for self-development and learning within the field of pharmacy or other specialty where appropriate.
* Participate in clinical and departmental audits as required.
* Adhere to all prison procedures as necessary.
* Undertake any other tasks at the request of the Lead Prison Services Pharmacist.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting 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, including 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.
* Police Certificate in English from previous residences for non-UK passport holders with less than 5 years UK address history.
* Certificate of good conduct or overseas police check in English for UK passport holders who have lived abroad for more than six months during the last three years.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
* NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent
* Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician
* Evidence of CPD
Experience
* 2 years' experience of working in a pharmacy
* Previous prison or mental health pharmacy experience (desirable)
Skills and Abilities
* Good knowledge of working within a set of SOPs
* 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 (desirable)
* Ability to use initiative to problem solve (desirable)
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