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

Dellbrugge; Exeter; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking compassionate Pharmacy Technicians to join their team at HMP Exeter. This role offers a unique opportunity to work in offender healthcare, providing essential services to promote health and well-being among prisoners. You will be integral to a forward-thinking pharmacy team, enhancing your clinical skills while making a significant impact on patients' lives. If you're ready to take on a challenging yet rewarding position within a supportive environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in pharmacy management and medication administration.
• Ability to manage prescriptions and interact with patients effectively.

Responsibilities

• Oversee stock control and manage prescriptions for prisoners.
• Administer medications and ensure compliance with SOPs.

Skills

Pharmacy Management

Medication Administration

Patient Interaction

Stock Control

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 transition from your current 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 seeking compassionate, knowledgeable, and motivated Pharmacy Technicians to join our friendly team on a bank basis at HMP The Verne.

Our healthcare team significantly impacts promoting health and well-being among prisoners. 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 within an integrated healthcare model aimed at providing effective, responsive care to improve well-being and support 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.

Under the supervision of Senior Pharmacy Technicians and Regional Pharmacists, you will contribute to the smooth and efficient operation of the pharmacy and medicines management service on-site within the prison. Your responsibilities will include:

1. All aspects of stock control (routine ordering, receipt of goods, computer input, storage of medicines).
2. Requesting and managing prescriptions and dealing with patients’ medication requests.
3. Working at Medication Administration Points (Meds hatches) on the wings and in the healthcare department, administering medication 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 (district nursing, speech and language therapy), care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care (psychiatry, nursing, therapies). Our multidisciplinary teams serve people of all ages and collaborate closely with NHS partners, 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 and hospital sites like Queen Mary’s Hospital and Memorial Hospital. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services, covering prisons in Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. Our purpose is to improve lives through high-quality care, guided by our values: Kindness, Fairness, Listening, and Caring.

Key responsibilities include:

1. Providing Medicines Management services to assigned prisons weekly, supported by a prison services pharmacist.
2. Overseeing the ordering and supply of repeat prescriptions.
3. Supervising assistants in the dispensary for dispensing services.
4. Dispensing prescriptions and stock items in the dispensary.
5. Working towards accreditation as a checking technician and/or medicines administration to provide final dispensing checks and medicines administration services, if not already achieved.
6. Maintaining high standards of work in the dispensary and during prison visits, ensuring adherence to all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

Applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting as part of pre-employment checks.

You will need to provide:

• Proof of right to work documentation
• Proof of ID, including one photographic ID
• Proof of address documentation
• For non-UK passport holders, correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home Office Share code

Additional requirements include a 5-year address history. Applicants without UK passports who have resided outside the UK for over six months in the last three years will need to provide a police certificate or good conduct certificate from the countries they resided in, in English. Guidance on obtaining these certificates can be found at Gov.uk.

This advert closes on Friday, 16 May 2025.

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