Pharmacy Technician

Overview

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? This is an excellent opportunity for a pharmacy technician to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.

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 patient's 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.

This position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.

• Provide medicines administration service to offenders at the medicines administration times as part of a 7‑day per week rota.
• Undertake medicines reconciliation for prisoners admitted to the prison.
• Dispense prescriptions and stock items, whilst supervising assistants when in the dispensary.
• Perform stock control tasks 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.
• Administer medicines to patients against a valid prescription, ensuring this is taken correctly, providing advice to patients about the appropriate use of medicines and promoting healthy lifestyles to aid their rehabilitation.
• Supervise assistants when in the dispensary in providing dispensing services.
• Provide final dispensing checks as an accredited checking technician or hold a medicines optimisation qualification.
• Ensure high standards of work in the dispensary, in clinics and for when out on the wings and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.
• Assist the Senior Prisons Technician with writing, updating and monitoring the use of medicines optimisation SOPs.

• Important Sponsorship Information for this post: we are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
• 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.
• Proof of right to work documentation, proof of  (needs to include 1 photographic ), proof of address documentation, and for non‑UK passport holders correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home Office Share code.
• 5‑year address history will be needed. Applicants that are not UK passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate in English from where they resided previously.
• 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.
• Accreditation:
  Accredited checking technician or medicines optimisation qualification.
• Experience as a pharmacy technician in a prison or similar setting is desirable.

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 you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme – please ensure you select this on your application form. We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview if they have any questions about the role or the process.

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