Vacancies

Open Day - Prison - Pharmacy Technician

Main Responsibility

You will be expected to work autonomously within guidelines, standard operating procedures, and Medicine Policy and:

• Work as an active member of the Pharmaceutical team to assist in ensuring the delivery of a legal, safe, high quality specialist prison pharmaceutical service which reflects National and local policy and priorities, taking into account the high level of security that must be maintained at all times
• Undertake provision of a medicine’s administration service to the patients
• Provide, in conjunction with the appropriate Clinical practitioners, a wing technician medicine management service on allocated wings
• Support implementation of medicine management strategy and associated services and projects across the prison
• Assist in the delivery of cost-effective prescribing, the medicines optimisation strategy and management of medication budgets
• Promote safe pharmacy practice within the prison including providing advice and training to patients and staff,

The Ideal Candidate

You will need to be Pharmacy Technician who is currently registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council and has experience within a hospital, primary care or community background. You will work shifts between the hours of 7am and 6pm.

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

On the day we will have managers, and colleagues so you can discuss the day to day activity and see who you would be working alongside. You will be able to discuss with colleagues how they have progressed through the positions and how we have been able to support with their professional development.

Package Description

HMP Norwich Recruitment open day at Maids Head Hotel, Norwich is a great opportunity for you to come and see all the great work the service at HCRG Care Group in Norwich provide. You will be able to discuss opportunities with the management team get an understanding for the type of work we do and how you could be an integral part of this

As a Pharmacy Technician you will receive access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• £25654 - £31533 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location

• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• *An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year 

*The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

 

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. 
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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