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 able to expand recruitment and are looking for compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Pharmacy Technician's to join our friendly team on bank at HMP The Verne.
Our healthcare team have 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 wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
As part of our pharmacy team, you will work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their 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. You will work 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.
Job 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, when in the dispensary 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, if not already achieved. 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
Essential
NVQ Level 3 Pharmacy Services (or equivalent) Registration with GPHC as a Pharmacy Technician
Desirable
Accredited Checking Technician Certificate and/or Medicines Optimisation Accreditation
Experience
Essential
Experience of working within a pharmacy
Desirable
Previous prison or mental health Pharmacy experience. Knowledge and experience of checking dispensed prescriptions
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
Ability to use (or learn to use) computer packages including Pharmacy Manager, JAC and Microsoft
Desirable
Some understanding of mental illness and substance misuse and their treatment.
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
HMP Exeter
30 New N Rd
Exeter
EX4 4EX
#J-18808-Ljbffr
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 able to expand recruitment and are looking for compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Pharmacy Technician's to join our friendly team on bank at HMP The Verne.
Our healthcare team have 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 wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
As part of our pharmacy team, you will work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their 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. You will work 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.
Job 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, when in the dispensary 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, if not already achieved. 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
Essential
NVQ Level 3 Pharmacy Services (or equivalent) Registration with GPHC as a Pharmacy Technician
Desirable
Accredited Checking Technician Certificate and/or Medicines Optimisation Accreditation
Experience
Essential
Experience of working within a pharmacy
Desirable
Previous prison or mental health Pharmacy experience. Knowledge and experience of checking dispensed prescriptions
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
Ability to use (or learn to use) computer packages including Pharmacy Manager, JAC and Microsoft
Desirable
Some understanding of mental illness and substance misuse and their treatment.
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
HMP Exeter
30 New N Rd
Exeter
EX4 4EX
#J-18808-Ljbffr
