Bank Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - HMP Bristol

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 33,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking compassionate and motivated Medicine Management Pharmacy Technicians to join their team at HMP Bristol. This role offers the chance to work in a challenging yet rewarding environment, providing essential pharmacy services to offenders while promoting rehabilitation through effective medicines management. With a focus on personal and professional development, this position allows you to enhance your clinical skills and contribute positively to the lives of individuals in the prison system. If you are ready to make a difference and grow your career in offender healthcare, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Flexible Working Hours

Career Development Opportunities

Inclusive Workplace

Support for Disability Confident Scheme

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent required.
• Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide medicines management services to prison patients.
• Administer medicines and promote healthy lifestyles.

Skills

Pharmacy Management

SOP Compliance

Computer Skills (Pharmacy Manager/JAC)

Problem Solving

Understanding of Mental Illness

Education

NVQ Level 3 Pharmacy Services

Registration with GPhC

Evidence of CPD

Tools

Pharmacy Manager

Microsoft Office

Job description

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-D

Site: HMP Bristol Pharmacy

Town: Bristol

Salary: £32,324 Per annum pro-rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 05/01/2025 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 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 a valid prescription, ensuring proper administration, provide advice about appropriate use of medicines, and promote healthy lifestyles to aid rehabilitation.

• Dispense prescriptions and stock items while supervising assistants in the dispensary.
• Undertake stock control tasks, such as stock top-up services and reviewing expiry dates and storage facilities for all medicines, reporting deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Provide a Medicines Management service to the allocated prison(s) on a weekly basis with the support of a prison services pharmacist.
• Oversee the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions.
• Supervise assistants in providing dispensing services.
• Work towards accreditation as a checking technician and/or medicines administration.
• Ensure high standards of work and adherence to 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 guidelines.
• Administer medicines to offenders against a valid prescription.
• Demonstrate ongoing continual professional development (CPD).
• 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 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. If you meet the minimum criteria for this role and have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.

If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know. We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview if they have any questions about the role or the process.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

If you'd like to explore opportunities to work for us, please submit an expression of interest form.

Our HR team will keep in touch with you to find the right opportunity.