Pharmacy Technician

Practice Plus Group; Gartree; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite Parking

Onsite Gym

Career and Development opportunities

Job summary

Practice Plus Group's HMP Gartree site is seeking a Pharmacy Technician to join the Pharmacy team within the healthcare department of this category B prison in Market Harborough, Leicestershire. The pharmacy conducts dispensing, ordering, prescription rewriting, stock control and medication checks, with a four‑person team.

The role is full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Sunday, with 1 weekend in 4, and a salary of £34,428 to £41,658 per annum.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Pharmacy.
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Up to date with Continual Professional Development (CPD).
• Relevant post-qualification pharmacy experience.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Able to work unsupervised while following policy and procedures.
• Ideal experience in hospital, community or prison environment (not essential).

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Ability to work unsupervised

Education

NVQ Level 3 or equivalent

Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

CPD (Continual Professional Development)

Post-qualification pharmacy experience

Job description

+ MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO EVERY LIFE

We have an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician to join our Pharmacy team at HMP Gartree, a

Prison located in Market Harborough, Leicestershire

HMP Gartree has a capacity of 1965 males.

About The Role

About the role

UNLOCK YOUR BEST WORK LIFE

+ MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO EVERY LIFE

We have an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician to join our Pharmacy team at HMP Gartree, a category B Prison located in Market Harborough, Leicestershire

HMP Gartree has a capacity of 1965 males.

The pharmacy within the healthcare department is responsible for dispensing, ordering, prescription rewriting, stock control, and medication checks. The team consists of four staff members.

HMP Gartree Offers

• Onsite Parking
• Onsite Gym
• Career and Development opportunities

Hours

• Monday - Sunday service
• 37.5 hours per week
• 7.30am - 5pm
• 1 weekend in 4

Salary

This position is full time, you’ll receive an annual salary between £34,428 - £41,658 per annum FTE - depending on experience.

How will we support you?

• 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

Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks.

What you'll be doing

• Provide outstanding quality based patient centred care to our patients seeking out, listening to and acting on their feedback so that care is personalised and informed by what matters to them.
• Focussing 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-judgemental care within the scope of professional standards. Involving anything from the timely administration of medicines through to analysing 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.

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.

It doesn’t stop there

• 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

What we’ll look for in you

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. 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 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 embrace diversity
• we strive to do things better together

We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a 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)
• Relevant post-qualification pharmacy experience
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Able to work unsupervised whilst following policy and procedures

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

Secure environments are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work. If you’re looking for a role where you can develop your existing healthcare skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this could be the right opportunity for you.