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Band 5
Main area: Prisons
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time or part time (18.75 hours per week available)
37.5 hours per week (Full time)
Job ref: 277-5865113-BRIS-N
Site: HMP Bristol Pharmacy
Town: Bristol
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 p.a.
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/01/2025 23:59
Job overview
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 to 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 to patients 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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main 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.
* 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.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
* NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent.
* Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician.
* Evidence of CPD.
* Working towards Accredited Checking or MM Technician Certificate.
Experience
* 2 years’ experience of working in a pharmacy.
* Previous prison or mental health pharmacy experience.
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.
* Ability to use initiative to problem solve.
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme. Please ensure you select this on your application form.
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