Bank Prison Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - HMP Exeter

Bank Prison Services Pharmacy Technician – HMP Exeter, Band 5

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, we are expanding our recruitment and looking for compassionate, knowledgeable, and motivated Pharmacy Technicians to join our friendly team on a bank basis at HMP The Verne.

Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well-being among those in prison. We pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instill hope for patients\’ future resettlement into the community. We deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy, and Clinical Substance Misuse services in an integrated healthcare model to provide effective and responsive care, improving wellbeing and supporting better outcomes.

As part of our pharmacy team, you will work within a forward-thinking service that encourages career and personal development to enhance clinical and interpersonal skills.

Working under the supervision of Senior Pharmacy Technicians and Regional Pharmacists, you will contribute to the smooth and efficient operation of the pharmacy and medicines management service on-site within the prison.

This Will Include

• All aspects of stock control (routine ordering, receipt of goods, computer input, storage of medicines).
• Requesting and managing prescriptions and dealing with patients’ medication requests.
• Working out of Medication Administration Points (Meds hatches) on the wings and in the healthcare department, administering medication to patients or acting as the second checker for controlled drug administration.

Oxleas – About Us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care including psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages, working closely with other NHS parts, local councils, and the voluntary sector. We operate in many settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools, and homes.

We have over 125 sites across the South of England, including in London within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and Kent. Our hospital sites include Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, a medium secure unit for mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services, covering prisons in Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our dedicated staff.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families, guided by our core values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

For further details or informal visits, contact:

Name: Dorota Wheeler
Job Title: Regional Lead Pharmacist for Devon Prisons
Email: dorota.wheeler@nhs.net
Telephone: 01803 814688

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