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 able to expand recruitment and are looking for compassionate, knowledgeable, and motivated Pharmacy Assistants to join our friendly team at HMP Portland.
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 well-being and support better outcomes in the future.
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 to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
As a Pharmacy Assistant, you will contribute towards the smooth and efficient running of the pharmacy service on site within the prison. This will include all aspects of stock control (routine ordering, receipt of goods, computer input, storage of medicines), dispensing clinically screened prescriptions, and dispensing weekly/monthly in possession medication to patients. You will work out of Medication Administration Points (Meds hatches) on the wings and in the healthcare department, acting as the second checker for controlled drug administration.
Ideally, applicants will have an NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Services; however, we will accept applicants who have healthcare experience and are interested in being put through the NVQ L2 by Oxleas.
Post holders will need to undertake a prison security check (level 2) prior to being employed, as well as the standard NHS recruitment checks.
To appreciate the secure environment you are working in and to adhere to all prison procedures as necessary.
To undertake any other tasks at the request of the senior prison services pharmacist.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
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:
1. Proof of right to work documentation
2. Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
3. Proof of address documentation
4. Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
5. 5 years address history will be needed.
6. 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.
7. 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
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