Bank Prison Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - HMP Exeter Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Dellbrugge; Exeter; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Pharmacy Technician to join their dynamic team at HMP Exeter. This role offers a unique opportunity to work in offender healthcare, where you will play a crucial part in promoting health and well-being among individuals in a challenging environment. You will be responsible for managing medications, overseeing stock control, and ensuring high standards of care. With a commitment to personal and professional development, this position is ideal for those looking to make a meaningful impact while advancing their career in a supportive and innovative healthcare setting.

Benefits

Professional Development Opportunities

Supportive Work Environment

Flexible Working Hours

Qualifications

• Experience in pharmacy settings with a focus on medication management.
• Knowledge of healthcare regulations and standards.

Responsibilities

• Manage stock control and medication requests in a prison setting.
• Administer medication and provide support to patients.

Skills

Pharmacy Technician Skills

Medication Administration

Stock Control

Patient Interaction

Education

Pharmacy Technician Qualification

Relevant Healthcare Certification

Tools

Pharmacy Management Software

Job description

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, 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 able to expand recruitment and are looking for compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Pharmacy Technicians to join our friendly team on bank at HMP The Verne.

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 team, you will work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase 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.

You will work out of Medication Administration Points (Meds hatches) on the wings and in the healthcare department, administering medication to the 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 such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, childrens centres, schools and peoples homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Marys Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values

Were Kind

Were Fair

We Listen

We Care

To provide a Medicines Management service to the allocated prison(s) on a weekly basis with the professional support of a prison services pharmacist.

To oversee the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions.

To supervise assistants, when in the dispensary in providing dispensing services for all the prisons.

To dispense prescriptions and stock items when in the dispensary.

To work towards accreditation as a checking technician and/or medicines administration to provide final dispensing checks and medicines administration services, if not already achieved.

To ensure high standards of work in the dispensary and when out on prison visits and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.

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.

You Will Need To Provide

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.

Address History

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 countries 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)

This advert closes on Friday 16 May 2025

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