A Pharmacy Technician post within the integrated clinical workforce at HMP Northumberland, run by Spectrum Community Health CIC, which provides healthcare across health and justice settings. The role mixes a range of patient-facing services with dispensary work, and the post-holder helps develop wider technician skills. It sits in a prison setting, so awareness of security issues matters, and the employer expects at least three years' post-qualification experience. Pharmacy technician registration is required; accuracy checking is desirable and training is offered after probation.
What the job involves
- Provide a varied range of patient-facing pharmacy services
- Carry out dispensary-based work
- Develop pharmacy technician skills to take on more diverse roles
What’s required
Qualifications
- BTEC or NVQ level 3 in pharmaceutical sciences, or equivalent
- Accredited technician checking qualification
Registration & licences
- Registered pharmacy technician
Experience
- At least 3 years post-qualification experience in community or hospital pharmacy
- Experience of working with potentially aggressive people
- Experience of working in challenging, complex situations
- Examples of diversity in practice
Skills & knowledge
- Knowledge of medicines optimisation, pharmacy law and controlled drug legislation
- Good clinical pharmacy knowledge, including terminology
- Excellent verbal and written communication, influencing and patient counselling skills
- Report and bulletin writing; computer literacy in Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint (or competent to learn)
- Understanding of data protection and confidentiality; good literacy and numeracy
- Ability to work in a complex and challenging environment
Nice to have
- Knowledge of pharmacy computer systems
- Understanding of security issues in a prison environment
- Substance misuse knowledge and experience of substance misuse services
- Ability to interpret prescribing information
- Medicines supply or administration direct to the patient
- Smoking cessation advisor
- Experience of immunisations, vaccinations and capillary blood testing
- Experience of working in a prison or similar setting
What’s offered
- Access to NHS Pension
- Additional day off
- Welcome payment for some posts
- Refer a friend scheme
- Training and development opportunities
- Flexible working
- Employee Assistance and health and wellbeing programmes
- Up to 33 days annual leave
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
