Pharmacy Technician

Location: Exeter – HMP Exeter

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Salary: £29,970-£36,483 per annum, dependent on experience

We are proud to be working with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust who have recently been voted by the Sunday Times as one of the Best Places to Work 2023.

Are 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, they are now able to expand their recruitment and are looking for compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Pharmacy Technicians to join their friendly team based in Exeter.

The healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and Oxleas pride themselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients’ future resettlement back into the community. Oxleas 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.

As part of the team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.

What will you be doing?

As a Pharmacy Technician, you will be required to support the delivery of Pharmacy Services which will be part be of a comprehensive healthcare package with direct patient contact, based on the prison service's needs. Working on the prison wings, you can expect to be involved in everything from medicine management, dispense medications, screening drug charts & patient counselling.

What do you need?

NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent
Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician
Excellent organisational skills

Desirable

Working towards Accredited Checking or MM Technician Certificate
Some understanding of mental illness and substance misuse and their treatment

What next?

If this is a role you’re interested in, and you want to join the team and help make a difference, please click on the apply button. You will be redirected to a page where you can enter your details, answer a few questions about your experience, and attach your CV. Someone will then be in touch with you to provide you with next steps.

Interested? Click apply now!

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