Pharmacy Technician – HMP Norwich
Package Description: As a Pharmacy Technician you will be part of our valued team in HMP Norwich. You will receive access to exclusive rewards and benefits:
- 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 everyday purchases such as grocery shopping, cashback and voucher offers.
- Access to wages as you earn them to help cover life 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 to post‑trauma support, legal, debt and life‑management help, as well as 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 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.
Qualifications and Experience
- 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.
- Demonstrated 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 and working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel).
- Ability to perform in a challenging environment.
- Good attendance record and willingness to participate in weekend/bank holiday rota.
Disabilities and Equal Opportunities
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 company, so we provide facilities, work‑environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
Safeguarding
Safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance. 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.
Information Sharing
The company you will work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited. By applying for this job we will process and hold information about you. For more details on how we use your information, please see our website’s privacy policy.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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