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Band 5Main area: Prisons Grade: Band 5 Contract: Permanent Hours: Full time or part time (18.75 hours per week available) Job ref: 277-5865113-BRIS-O Site: HMP Bristol Pharmacy Town: Bristol Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 p.a. Salary period: Yearly Closing: 04/02/2025 23:59 Job overviewAre 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 motivatedMedicine Management Pharmacy Techniciansto join our friendly team atHMP Bristol . As part of our pharmacy service (OPS), you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (including pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service that encourages career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills. Main duties of the jobAs a Pharmacy Technician, you will provide a medicines management service to patients within the prison with the professional support of a prison service pharmacist. Responsibilities include: Administering medicines to patients against a valid prescription, ensuring correct usage. Providing advice to patients about the appropriate use of medicines and promoting healthy lifestyles to aid their rehabilitation. Dispensing prescriptions and stock items while supervising assistants in the dispensary. Undertaking stock control, such as top-up services and reviewing expiry dates of medicines. Working for our organisationOxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our multidisciplinary teams work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital and the Bracton Centre, and we are the largest NHS provider of prison health services. Detailed job description and main responsibilitiesProvide a Medicines Management service to the allocated prison(s) on a weekly basis with the professional support of a prison services pharmacist. Oversee the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions. Supervise assistants in the dispensary. Dispense prescriptions and stock items when in the dispensary. Work towards accreditation as a checking technician and/or medicines administration. Ensure high standards of work in the dispensary and during prison visits. Manage own workload when providing medicines management services. Provide weekly clinical visits to the allocated prison(s), including stock top-up services and reviewing medicines storage. Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines. Administer medicines to offenders against a valid prescription. Demonstrate ongoing continual professional development (CPD). Participate in clinical and departmental audits as required. Adhere to all prison procedures as necessary. Undertake any other tasks at the request of the Lead Prison Services Pharmacist. Person specificationEducation/QualificationsNVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent. Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician. Evidence of CPD. Working towards Accredited Checking or MM Technician Certificate. Experience2 years’ experience of working in a pharmacy. Previous prison or mental health pharmacy experience. Skills and AbilitiesGood knowledge of working within a set of SOPs. Ability to use (or learn to use) computer packages including Pharmacy Manager/ JAC and Microsoft. Some understanding of mental illness and substance misuse and their treatment. Ability to use initiative to problem solve. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. If you meet the minimum criteria for this role and have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme. If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know. We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview if they have any questions about the role or the process.#J-18808-Ljbffr