Looking for an exciting job opportunity within prison healthcare?

If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding Pharmacy Technician role and want to develop your Pharmacy skills in an environment where no two days are the same then this could be the new job for you!

The salary is upto £24,000 per annum dependent on the experience.

This is a permanent full time role working 37.5 hours per week with day shifts and no nights.
Shifts can vary between 7:30 a.m to 5:30 pm Monday to Friday only, with possibility of early start/early finish or lat start/late finish.

HMP Bullingdon is a local Cat B prison for adult males and young offenders. It has a training function and regime for sex offenders and holds up to 1,140 prisoners, with a 21 bed inpatient unit.

About the Job:

As a Pharmacy Technician at HMP Bullingdon, you will assist in the delivery of a high quality pharmacy service to the prison population.

You can expect to provide medicines management services to assist in tackling identified, inequalities within the prison population contributing to diagnosis of care and treatment needs. This includes providing pharmacy related information to patients, prison officers and other healthcare professionals ensuring that the level of advice given is appropriate to overcome barriers to understanding, conveying complex and sensitive information in an easily understandable form.

The Pharmacy Technician will also assist with the implementation and development of pharmacy support to all wings in the prison which includes, where appropriate, counselling of patients on the correct use of medication.

It goes without saying that you will be responsible for dispensing medicines to agreed standards, calculating doses and quantities for supply where there is a specific requirement for accuracy e.g. Methadone preparation.

Furthermore, you will support the induction of new pharmacy technician starters.

Job Requirements:

You will hold NVQ Level 3, BTEC or equivalent qualifications and must have a current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council to be considered for this role. You will also have relevant post-qualification experience working within a multi-disciplinary team.

Salary & Benefits:

Salary for this role is anything between £19,000 - £24,000 per annum depending on experience.

Care UK benefits include training & development opportunities, 2-5% company contributory pension scheme, 25 days annual leave plus 8 public bank holidays, staff well-being, cycle to work scheme, on-site gym facilities and free onsite parking.

We are also proud to support our employees with continued professional development opportunities and further education subject to service needs...

Further job information:

If you'd like to have an informal chat prior to applying for the job, please contact Anton on 01189 5211863.

Please note that offers of employment are subject to Care UK Terms & Conditions and employment is subject to receipt of satisfactory references, enhanced DBS check and prison vetting.

Care UK is the Health in Justice market leader, providing healthcare services to offenders across the country.

Having been awarded the contract to deliver NHS services at HMP Bullingdon, we are very excited about the opportunities to develop our Wellbeing Approach – an integrated, comprehensive approach in recognition of the fact prisoners are a socially-excluded group with healthcare needs which are complex and often associated with poor outcomes.

The circumstances that bring people to prison are also complex and varied, our wellbeing approach adopts the premise no single factor can be taken in isolation of other motivational issues which might impact a person’s care.

For more information on our Health in Justice service follow the link below:
http://www.careukhealthcare.com/our-services/health-in-justice