Bank Prison Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - HMP Exeter

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Exeter; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare provider as a Pharmacy Technician at HMP Exeter. This role offers the chance to make a real difference in the lives of individuals in a secure environment. You will work alongside a dedicated team, managing medication and ensuring the smooth operation of pharmacy services. With a focus on personal and professional development, this position is perfect for those looking to grow their career in offender healthcare. Embrace the opportunity to work in a dynamic and supportive setting, where your contributions will help promote health and well-being among patients.

Qualifications

• Compassionate and knowledgeable Pharmacy Technician with a focus on patient care.
• Experience in stock control and medication management in healthcare settings.

Responsibilities

• Manage prescriptions and medication requests from patients.
• Oversee stock control and ensure efficient pharmacy operations.

Skills

Pharmacy Technician

Medication Management

Stock Control

Patient Interaction

Education

Pharmacy Technician Qualification

Relevant Health Care Degree

Tools

Pharmacy Management Software

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

Our healthcare team has 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 all staff, enhancing their clinical and interpersonal skills.

Working under the supervision of our Senior Pharmacy Technicians and Regional Pharmacists, you will contribute towards 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 environment settings. 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 look after people of all ages and work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, 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 into Kent. Our hospital sites include Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich. We manage the Bracton Centre, a medium secure unit for mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. Our commitment is to provide the best possible care, guided by our core 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

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Location: Exeter, England, United Kingdom