Bank Prison Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - HMP Exeter

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Exeter; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Bank Pharmacy Technician at HMP Exeter. This entry-level role offers the chance to make a real impact in offender healthcare. Work within a supportive team to manage prescriptions and ensure effective medication administration, contributing to the well-being of patients in a challenging environment.

Qualifications

• Entry-level position requiring a compassionate and motivated individual.
• Role involves managing prescriptions and administering medication.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the efficient running of the pharmacy and medicines management service.
• Manage stock control and administer medication to patients.

Skills

Compassionate

Knowledgeable

Motivated

Job description

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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, regardless of 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 expanding our recruitment and are looking for compassionate, knowledgeable, and motivated Pharmacy Technicians to join our friendly team on a bank basis at HMP The Verne.

Our healthcare team makes a real impact on promoting health and well-being among those in prison. We pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instill hope for patients' future resettlement into the community. We deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy, and Clinical Substance Misuse services in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care, improving well-being and supporting better outcomes.

As part of our pharmacy team, you will work within a forward-thinking service that encourages career and personal development to enhance clinical and interpersonal skills.

Working under the supervision of Senior Pharmacy Technicians and Regional Pharmacists, you will contribute to 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.
• Working out of Medication Administration Points (Meds hatches) on the wings and in the healthcare department, administering medication to patients or acting as the second checker for controlled drug administration.

Oxleas – About Us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environments. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care including psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams serve people of all ages and work in close partnership with other NHS parts, local councils, and the voluntary sector. We operate in many settings, including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools, and homes.

We have over 125 sites across the South of England, including London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and Kent. We manage hospital sites such as Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, a medium secure unit for mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services, covering prisons in Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. We are committed to providing excellent care and supporting our staff’s development.

Our Purpose: To improve lives by providing the best possible care to patients and families, guided by our values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

For further details or informal visits, contact:

• Name: Dorota Wheeler
• Job Title: Regional Lead Pharmacist for Devon Prisons
• Email: [e-mail]
• Telephone: [phone]

Seniority Level

• Entry level

Employment Type

• Full-time

Job Function

• Health Care Provider

Industries

• Hospitals and Health Care