Job summary
Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?

This is an excellent opportunity for a pharmacy technician to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.

Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patient's future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.

This position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post

Main duties of the job
As a Senior Pharmacy Technician within our Prison Services Pharmacy team you will be responsible for managing the day to day running of the medications management service within HMP Erlestoke.

You will work closely with and line manage a team of Pharmacy Technicians and Assistants. You will be responsible for the teams Healthroster, work distribution, supervision and training.

You will manage the requirements of the Wholesale Dealers License on a daily basis

About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

• To organise and manage the day-to-day running of the medication management service at HMP Erlestok, reporting any immediate issues to the responsible pharmacist and any significant issues to the Regional Superintendent Prison Services Pharmacist.
• To supervise, mentor and train pharmacy technicians and assistants using specialist knowledge and experience.
• To label and dispense prescriptions and stock items when in the pharmacy if required.
• To be an accredited checking technician (ACT) providing final accuracy checks.
• To ensure, on a daily basis, that all pharmacy operations are within the requirements of the Wholesale Dealers License.
• Oversee the use of JAC in the pharmacy and ensure a high standard of ordering and stock management.
• To administer prescribed and stock medicines on the wings against valid prescriptions or policies (e.g, Homely Remedies Policy).
• To hold a medicines optimisation accreditation (or be working towards this).

Please see Job Description for further information.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

You will need to provide:

• Proof of right to work documentation
• Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographicID
• Proof of address documentation
• Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.

Address History:
5 years address history will be needed.

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

For assistance in obtaining a Police Certificate, refer to: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).

Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential

• NVQ L3 - Pharmacy Services or equivalent
• Accredited Checking Technician Certificate
• GPhC Registration

Experience
Essential

• 6 years+ working in pharmacy
• Substancial prison/hospital/community pharmacy experience
• Experience or desire to work in a leadership/management role

Knowledge/Skills
Essential

• Knowledge and experience of checking dispensed prescriptions
• Good knowledge of writing and working within a set of SOPs

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address: HMP Erlestoke, Devizes, SN10 5TU, United Kingdom
Employer's website: http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)