Prison Services Pharmacy Technician

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Castletown; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust operates prison healthcare, delivering medicines management and pharmaceutical care within the prison setting. You will dispense prescriptions under the supervision of a prison service pharmacist and contribute to stock control and patient education to support rehabilitation.

This role sits within NHS AfC employment terms (with pension) and offers opportunities for professional development and progression. A strong patient-centered approach is essential.

Responsibilities

• Dispense prescriptions and stock items,
• Supervise dispensary assistants
• Undertake stock control, review expiry dates and storage facilities
• Report deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist
• Provide advice to patients about appropriate use of medicines and promote healthy lifestyles to aid rehabilitation

Skills

Medicines management

Dispensing

Stock control

Patient advice

Job description

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?

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 service (OPS), you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.

**Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.**

As a Pharmacy Technician, you will be providing a medicines management service to patients within the prison with the professional support of a prison service pharmacist. You will administer medicines to patients against a valid prescription, ensuring this is taken correctly, provide advice to patients about the appropriate use of medicines and promote healthy lifestyles to aid their rehabilitation.

You will dispense prescriptions and stock items, whilst supervising assistants when in the dispensary. There will also be elements of stock control involved in your role, such as undertaking stock top-up services and reviewing expiry dates and storage facilities for all medicines, reporting any deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist.

Wondering what it's like to work within offender healthcare?

"I really enjoy working in the Pharmacy Service for Oxleas, my role is extremely varied and I work within a very supportive team. I find my role rewarding as it is all about enabling patient's rehabilitation and I enjoy interacting with patients daily and building relationships with them. Oxleas are a good employer and there are plenty of opportunities to be supported through qualifications and training which then allows you to progress through different bands within the team."

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, children's centres, schools and people's 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 Mary's 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

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Emma Christopher Job title: Senior Pharmacy Technician Email address: [e-mail]