About the role
Salary: £34,592 a year
Per annum pro-rata
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 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.
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.
To manage own workload when providing medicines management services.
To provide weekly clinical visits to the allocated prison(s), under the professional supervision of a pharmacist. On these visits the post-holder will:
- undertake a stock top-up service for all areas in which medicines are stored.
- review the expiry dates and storage facilities for all such medicines and report any deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist for that prison
- assist the prison service pharmacist to provide advice to prisoners and staff about the appropriate use of medicines
- undertake 3-monthly controlled drugs stock checks and report any issues to the prison service pharmacist for that prison
- Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines or promotions.
- Administer medicines to offenders against a valid prescription on the house blocks
- To demonstrate on-going continual professional development (CPD) and be responsible for self-development and learning within the field of pharmacy or other specialty where appropriate.
- To participate in clinical and departmental audits as required.
To appreciate the
- secure environment, you are working in and to adhere to all prison procedures as necessary.
- To undertake any other tasks at the request of the Lead Prison Services Pharmacist.
- (Full JD can be downloaded in supporting documents section)