BANK Pharmacy Technician

NHS; Leicester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Leicester is seeking a Bank Pharmacy Technician to join their Pharmacy team. The role involves providing patient-centered care and ensuring safe medication management. The ideal candidate should have NVQ Level 3 and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council. This position offers career development opportunities and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Discounts on shopping and leisure activities

Support for professional development

24/7 employee assistance helpline

Qualifications

• Able to work unsupervised whilst following policy and procedures.
• Up to date with Continual Professional Development (CPD).
• Experience in a hospital, community, or prison environment is ideal.

Responsibilities

• Provide outstanding quality-based patient-centered care.
• Maintain patient medical records and follow standard operating procedures.
• Deliver non-judgmental care and timely medication administration.

Skills

Caring

Compassionate

Driven

Education

NVQ Level 3, BTEC or equivalent

Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

General GCSE education or equivalent

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Bank Pharmacy Technician to join our Pharmacy team at HMP Leicester, a category B Prison located in Leicester.

HMP Leicester is a local prison holding men who are on remand as well as sentenced. It has an operational capacity of around 400. The prison is located in the City Centre and is a 15-minute walk from the station.

Hours and Rates

Hours:

• Monday - Sunday
• 0730 - 1530 OR 0730 - 2030

Hourly rate: (not specified)

Support and Development

Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course

Competency framework

Regional and national career development opportunities

Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs

Support from the wider team

Main Duties

As a Pharmacy Technician, your responsibilities will vary. You will

• Provide outstanding quality-based patient-centered care to our patients seeking out, listening to, and acting on their feedback so that care is personalized and informed by what matters to them.
• Focusing on providing a safe and secure medicines management service, ensuring patient medical records are maintained to the agreed standard at all times and ensuring standard operating procedures are followed to a high and orderly standard.
• Deliver non-judgmental care within the scope of professional standards. Involving anything from the timely administration of medicines through to analyzing cost-effective prescribing as defined through our unique health in justice medicines policy.
• You will make a real difference by working as a key member of a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals.

Career Development and Benefits

If you are interested in career development, we have a wide range of opportunities for you to develop your skills and experience, which include both internal and external options for development and learning.

We also offer:

• Discounts on shopping and leisure activities
• Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development
• 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it

About Us

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders, and immigration removal centers. We’re the UK’s leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.

Practice Plus Group’s purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:

• We treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
• We act with integrity
• We strive to do things better together

Person Specification

We are looking for caring, compassionate, but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.

• NVQ Level 3, or above, BTEC or equivalent
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Up to date with Continual Professional Development (CPD)
• General GCSE education or equivalent
• Able to work unsupervised whilst following policy and procedures

Although not essential, ideal applicants would have experience in a hospital, community, or prison environment.

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.