Prison Services Pharmacy Technician

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? 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 service (OPS), you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills. Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post. Main duties of the job As a Pharmacy Technician, you will be providing 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, whilst supervising assistants when 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. Wondering what it's like to work within offender healthcare? "I really enjoy working in the Pharmacy Service for Oxleas, my role is extremely varied and I work within a very supportive team. I find my role rewarding as it is all about enabling patient's rehabilitation and I enjoy interacting with patients daily and building relationships with them. Oxleas are a good employer and there are plenty of opportunities to be supported through qualifications and training which then allows you to progress through different bands within the team." Amanda - Pharmacy Tech. Job responsibilities Key Task and Responsibilities * To provide a medicines optimisation services to the prison. * To provide a medicines administration service to offenders at the medicines administration times as part of a 7 day per week rota. * To undertake medicines reconciliation for prisoners admitted to the prison. * To supervise assistants, when in the dispensary in providing dispensing services. * To be an accredited checking technician providing final dispensing checks or medicines optimisation qualification. * To 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. * To assist the Senior Prisons Technician with writing, updating and monitoring the use of medicines optimisation SOPs. 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 ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID Proof of address documentation Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code. 5 years 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 which must be 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 country 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 If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en). 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 * Previous 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 * Ability to use initiative to problem solve * Some understanding of mental illness and substance misuse and their treatment Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. #J-18808-Ljbffr