Job Introduction
As a Pharmacy Technician you will be part of our valued team in our HMP Norwich Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free on-site parking at HMP Norwich
- 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 the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
Job Introduction
This is a Fixed Term Contract for 12 months.
We are seeking a motivated and skilled Pharmacy Technician to join our dedicated pharmacy team at HMP Norwich.
The post holder will work collaboratively with colleagues to deliver an efficient, safe and comprehensive pharmaceutical service within the prison pharmacy departments.
As a Pharmacy Technician, your days will be rewarding and varied, you will work on a wing where you will be responsible for the administration of medication to patients and the associated medication management activities, including audits and stock checks under the direction of the Clinical Lead and the Pharmacist Manager.
You will be expected to work autonomously within guidelines, standard operating procedures and Medicine Policy.
This is an excellent opportunity for a dedicated pharmacy technician who is committed to accuracy, teamwork and patient-focused service delivery in a unique and rewarding healthcare environment.
Main Responsibilities
- Be responsible for the administration of medication to patients and the associated medication management activities, including audits and stock checks under the direction of the Clinical Lead and the Pharmacist Manager.
- Work autonomously within guidelines, standard operating procedures and Medicine Policy
- 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 medicines 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 budget
- Promote safe pharmacy practice within the prison including providing advice and training to patients and staff
Ideal Candidate
- BTEC or NVQ level 3 in pharmaceutical sciences or equivalent
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council - GPhC
- Knowledge of legislation and good practice in relation to medicines
- Experience of stock control
- Ability to monitor and assist in management of medication budget
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
- Demonstrate initiative
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with clinicians, healthcare professionals and patients
- Ability to manage own workload and meet objectives and targets
- Confident using IT systems & be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
- Ability to perform in a challenging environment
- Good attendance record and willingness to participate in weekend/bank holiday rota
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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