Bank Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - HMP Bristol

Job overview

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 part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Medicine Management Pharmacy Technician's to join our friendly team at HMP Bristol on bank.

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.

Main duties of the job

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.” Amanda - Pharmacy Tech.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• 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
• 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)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

You will need to provide:

Proof of right to work documentation

Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID

Proof of address documentation

Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.

Address History:

5 years address history will be needed.

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).