Senior Pharmacy Technician Location: Isle of Sheppey HMP Elmley and HMP Swaleside Contract Type: Permanent Hours: Full time (4 day weeks 0730-1730 and every other weekend) Salary: £39,338-£46,962 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.
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 the Isle of Sheppey.
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 Senior Pharmacy Technician you will manage on a daily basis the Medicines Management Service at HMP Swaleside.
You will manage the medicines administration, as well as the printing and coordination of the repeat prescription service.
As well as this, you will monitor the performance of the medicines optimisation technicians when placed at HMP Swaleside and implement remedial action should an issue arise.
You will assist with annual appraisals of the Pharmacy Technicians and Assistant team members, and mentor and train medicines optimisation staff using specialist knowledge and experience, to ensure all staff are working to a high standard.
What do you need?
NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent Accredited Checking Technician Certificate Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician 5 years experience of working in a pharmacy Excellent organisational skills Desirable NVQ A1 assessors award ACT Facilitator Minimum of 4 years prison or hospital pharmacy experience 2 years mental health experience Management experience What next?
If this is a role youre 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.
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