Pharmacy Technician - HMP Berwyn

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board; Wrexham; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

A health board in the UK is seeking a Band 5 Pharmacy Technician to work within the Pharmacy team at HMP Berwyn. The successful candidate will manage dispensaries and ensure the safe administration of medications, requiring flexibility in work hours. This role promotes a high standard of care and fosters collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams. Proficiency in Welsh is desirable, aligning with the board's commitment to health equity for prisoners. The salary ranges from £31,516 to £38,364, pro rata.

Qualifications

• Confident communication skills and capability to deliver a pharmacy service.
• Ability to carry out accurate drug histories and counsel patients.
• Desirable to have the ability to speak Welsh.

Responsibilities

• Manage the effective running of the house block dispensaries.
• Ensure safe administration of medication to patients.
• Foster effective working relationships with various stakeholders.

Job description

As a Band 5 Pharmacy Technician your role will be to work within the Pharmacy team whilst working with a multi-disciplinary team of health and wellbeing professionals to deliver high quality services to patients.

A key role for this post will be to manage the effective running of the house block dispensaries, and ensure the safe administration of medication to the men, and so will require either early starts or late finishes to cover medication administration rounds.

Please note if your application is successful and you are invited to interview, they will be held on site at HMP Berwyn to ensure candidates have an understanding of the environment. Requests for virtual interviews will not be accepted.

Main duties of the job

This is a rewarding role for an individual who is an excellent communicator, confident and able to deliver a pharmacy service across Primary Care, Integrated Substance Misuse & Mental Health Services.

You will partake in an on-going programme of development to ensure high standards of patient care are maintained, whilst fostering effective working relationships with HMPPS, prison colleagues and other stakeholders.

This post is key to the development and delivery of high quality, evidence based health and wellbeing services to give prisoners access to interventions and support equitable to those provided by the NHS in the community. Safer prescribing and medicines optimisation are at the centre of everything we do, and this post will contribute to the safe and effective delivery of pharmacy services to patients in our care. You will be responsible for carrying out accurate drug histories and counselling patients to support the safe prescribing of medications.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

HMP Berwyn was developed with a strong rehabilitative culture at its heart. The key values being built into all areas are to value each other and celebrate achievements, act with integrity and always speak the truth, look to the future with ambition and hope, uphold fairness and justice in all we do, embrace welsh language and culture and to stick at it!

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Meets all essential criteria

Experience

• Meets all essential criteria

Skills

• Meets all essential criteria

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£31,516 to £38,364 a yearper annum pro rata