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Band 5
Main area: Prisons
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Bank
Hours: Flexible working - 37.5 hours per week (Bank / Flexible)
Job ref: 277-BankPharmB5-HMPBris-F
Site: HMP Bristol Pharmacy
Town: Bristol
Salary: £32,324 Per annum pro-rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/02/2025 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 on bank.
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, which 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 valid prescriptions, ensuring correct intake.
* Provide advice to patients about the appropriate use of medicines and promote healthy lifestyles to aid their rehabilitation.
* Dispense prescriptions and stock items, supervising assistants in the dispensary.
* Manage stock control, including top-up services and reviewing expiry dates.
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our multidisciplinary teams work in partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector.
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
* Provide a Medicines Management service to the allocated prison(s) weekly with the professional support of a prison services pharmacist.
* Oversee the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions.
* Supervise assistants 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.
* Conduct weekly clinical visits to the allocated prison(s) under the supervision of a pharmacist.
* Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines.
* Administer medicines to offenders against valid prescriptions.
* Demonstrate ongoing professional development (CPD).
* Participate in clinical and departmental audits as required.
* Adhere to all prison procedures.
* Undertake other tasks as requested by 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
* 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. 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.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and will require a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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