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Prisons are one of the most challenging yet rewarding places for Pharmacy professionals to work. At HMP Stoke Heath we are looking to expand our healthcare team and develop a new role for a Pharmacy assistant. This is an exciting time, so if you are looking for a role to develop your existing skills and learn something new in an environment that never stands still, then this is a perfect opportunity for you!

A typical day will consist of:

• Accurately checking and receiving medication orders into stock
• Dealing with queries from Healthcare staff, Prison staff and patients
• Supporting the delivery of medicines to medication hatches on the prison wings.
• Working alongside pharmacist to ensure correct and secure storage of medicines

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

1. Deal with queries from patients and other healthcare professionals presenting in person or via the telephone or on the wing.
2. To assist pharmacy staff with clerical duties such as informing the correct community pharmacy on a patient release using the correct procedures using appropriate and secure software.
3. Maintain data collection systems, process data or produce reports, all of which require a great deal of concentration, attention to detail and accuracy.
4. May assist in the development of software / web pages / information reports or install / maintain hardware and software or assist in the review of datasets or provide training to members of the team.
5. Accurately check and receive orders into stock.
6. Visit allocated wings on a monthly basis maintaining accurate and up to date stocks lists and levels