# Bank Pharmacy Technician - HMP Holme House

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Spectrum Community Health CIC.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Spectrum Community Health CIC
- **Location:** HMP Holme House
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Pharmacy technician
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £17.13 - £20 + enhancements for weekends, nights and bank holiday
- **Contract type:** Bank
- **Employment type:** Flexible working - 0 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-17T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03T10:33:37.885Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Yorkshire/StocktononTees/Spectrum_Community_Health_CIC/Pharmacy_Technician/Pharmacy_Technician-v8270757
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8270757?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://spectrum-cic.org.uk/

## Job Content

### Job overview

Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding Bank Pharmacy Technician role and want to develop your skills in a new environment?

We are looking for an enthusiastic and focused Bank Pharmacy Technician to join our prison healthcare team in HMP Holme House.

As a Bank Pharmacy Technician, you will assist with the provision and delivery of an integrated, safe, legal, high quality prison pharmaceutical service, taking into consideration, at all times, the need to maintain a high level of security.

### Main duties of the job

The post holder will be an integral member of the Pharmacy Team, who form part of the wider healthcare. You will be required to work bank holidays and weekends and the role is based on the house blocks.

You will be required to support the delivery of Pharmacy Services which will include the administration and supply of medication to prisoners, medicines optimisation and providing advice to other colleagues and prisoners within your competency.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information regarding the advertised role, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Good clinical pharmacy knowledge including terminology
- Computer literate- able to use Word and Excel.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Able to prepare reports and bulletins
- Influencing skills
- Able to use Microsoft PowerPoint and Outlook (or competent to complete) Patient counselling skills
- Has a good understanding of data protection and confidentiality issues
- Ability to work in a complex and challenging environment
- Able to demonstrate a good standard of literacy and numeracy

**Desirable**

- Able to interpret and understand prescribing information
- Medicines supply / administration direct to the patient
- Smoking cessation advisor
- Experience of Immunisation and vaccinations
- Experience of capillary blood testing procedures

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Knowledge of medicines optimisation issues
- Pharmacy legal requirements and controlled drug legislation

**Desirable**

- Knowledge of pharmacy computer systems.
- Has a good understanding of security issues in relation to the prison environment
- Substance misuse knowledge

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
- Appropriate accredited technician checking qualification

## Documents

- [recruitment faq's (pdf, 325.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3014)
- [spectrum's benefits (jpg, 188.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2774)
- [job description and person specification (pdf, 229.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10585830)

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