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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust .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 role offers the opportunity to work within offender healthcare and develop your pharmacy career.Oxleas NHS Trust were awarded the South West prison contract in 2022 and currently have a portfolio of 19 prisons across the South of England. We are expanding our pool of bank workers by recruiting

Pharmacy Technicians

to work within the Prison service on a flexible basis.Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and wellbeing to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that support patients’ 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 outcomes.As a Pharmacy Technician, you will be providing a medicines management service to patients within the prison with the professional support of a prison service pharmacist. You will administer medicines to patients against a valid prescription, ensure correct administration, provide advice about the appropriate use of medicines and promote healthy lifestyles to aid rehabilitation.You will dispense prescriptions and stock items, whilst supervising assistants when in the dispensary. There will also be elements of stock control, such as undertaking stock top-up services and reviewing expiry dates and storage facilities for all medicines, reporting any deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist.Oxleas – About Us: Oxleas offers NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environments. Our services include community health care, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care. Our multidisciplinary teams work with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector. Our 4,300 staff work in hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure units, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes. We operate over 125 sites in the South of England and London.Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families, strengthened by our values: We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen, We Care.We’re KindWe’re FairWe ListenWe CareFor further details / informal visits contact: Name: Carly Fudgell

Job title: Recruitment and Retention Resourcing Officer

Email: carly.fudgell@nhs.netSeniority level

Entry levelEmployment type

Full-timeJob function

Health Care ProviderIndustries: Hospitals and Health CareNote: This position is part of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust’s bank staffing pool for prison health services.

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