About the role
Salary: £32073.00 to £39043.00
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?
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 optimisation services to the prison.
To provide a medicines administration service to offenders at the medicines administration times as part of a 7 day per week rota.
To undertake medicines reconciliation for prisoners admitted to the prison.
To supervise assistants, when in the dispensary in providing dispensing services.
To be an accredited checking technician providing final dispensing checks or medicines optimisation qualification.
To ensure high standards of work in the dispensary, in clinics and for when out on the wings and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.
To assist the Senior Prisons Technician with writing, updating and monitoring the use of medicines optimisation SOPs.
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