Pharmacy Technician - HMP Chelmsford

As a Pharmacy Technician, you will be part of our valued team in our Pharmacy Service, HMP Chelmsford. You will be receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Salary of £32,648.00 - £39,177.60 depending on experience, and Group Pension.
• Receive a competitive salary enhancement for working pattern will vary each week and will include weekend coverage.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers.
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
• Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post-trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care.
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards.

We are seeking a dedicated and reliable Pharmacy Technician to join our healthcare team within the HMP Chelmsford prison. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to the delivery of pharmaceutical services in a secure and structured environment. You will play a key role in supporting the prison healthcare team, managing medication administration, and ensuring the effective delivery of pharmaceutical services.

Working pattern: 40 hours per week, spread over four days (7:00 AM - 6:00 PM), and 20 or 30 part-time hours can be arranged for flexible working, following a rolling schedule over an eight-week period. The working pattern will vary each week and will include weekend coverage.

Main Responsibilities:

• Assist in the delivery of a high-quality pharmacy service, providing medicines management services to assist in tackling identified inequalities within the prison.
• Provide pharmacy-related information to patients, prison officers and other healthcare professionals, ensuring that the level of advice given is appropriate to need.
• Function autonomously within the scope of competency, while being a support and resource to less experienced members of staff.
• Assist with the implementation and development of pharmacy support to all the residential wings in the prison, advising patients on the correct use of medication where appropriate.
• Maintain clear and comprehensive, signed and contemporaneous records both written and electronic.
• Recognise signs and symptoms of drug and alcohol withdrawal and support patients with substance misuse problems.
• Support patients who are distressed and could be at risk of harming themselves or others or could be at risk of suicide.
• Communicate effectively with other team members, prison staff and external agencies both verbally and in writing.
• Undertake all mandatory and additional training as identified.
• Use and encourage others to be familiar with the security systems within the prison.
• Undertake all duties as required of a Pharmaceutical Professional in HMP Chelmsford and comply with the competencies, knowledge and skills framework of the Department of Health.

The Ideal Candidate Person Specification:

• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills.
• Ability to build and develop relationships.
• Must be confident and capable of autonomous practice and able to work independently.

Essential Experience / Qualifications:

• Qualified with an NVQ Level 3, BTEC or equivalent.
• Registered Pharmacist Technician with current General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) membership.
• All candidates are subject to prison vetting checks.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a multi-professional team within a fast-paced environment.

Desirable Experience:

• Experience in a Prison environment.
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Qualified in ACT (Accredited Checking Technician).
• Qualified in MMT (Medicines Management Technician).

About the Company:

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.

Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we may need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.