Senior Pharmacy Technician - HMP Belmarsh London, England
Job description
About The Role
Where every day is a chance to make a difference
Practice Plus Group were recently awarded the healthcare contract at HMP Belmarsh and will begin delivering services in May 2023. We are the Health in Justice Market leader, providing healthcare services to offenders across the country. Our model of care is our Wellbeing Approach – an integrated, comprehensive approach in recognition of the fact prisoners are a socially-excluded group with healthcare needs which are complex and often associated with poor outcomes. It adopts the premise no single health/wellbeing factor can be taken in isolation of other motivational issues which might impact a person’s care.
We are searching for a Senior Pharmacy Technician looking to work within a prison setting and be responsible for the line management of pharmacy technicians and support of the development of junior staff. You will look after the administration and medicines management, and will work across our primary care and substance misuse wings. You will provide health promotion advice to our men in areas such as giving up smoking, hypertension, healthy living and other minor ailments.
About You
You will hold NVQ Level 3, BTEC, or equivalent qualifications and have current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPHC) to be considered for this role. You will also have relevant post-qualification experience working within a pharmacy environment and multi-disciplinary team. It essential that you are ACPT qualified.
You’ll receive an annual salary up to £42,000 per annum - depending on experience. We offer a whole host of additional benefits such as: cycle to work scheme, free DBS check, free uniform, an extensive training and development structure for all employees along with an employee recognition scheme.
It doesn’t stop there…
We also offer a company pension scheme which we as Practice Plus Group also pay into, 25 days annual leave increasing with service up to 28 days per year, plus 8 public bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time), NHS blue light card, discounted Costco memberships, access to Boundless memberships for attractions and parks, shopping discounts, free eye tests for computer screen users, an 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it.
About Us
Practice Plus Group is a specialist provider of NHS services into prison healthcare across over 45 different prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We believe in putting the patient first, regardless of the environment or their history. The prison population is one of the most vulnerable and challenged patient groups in society and the delivery of their health care is conducted within often difficult and demanding environments.
• we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
• we act with integrity
• we embrace diversity
• we strive to do things better together
Patients can only access excellence if we commit to living our values in everything we do when we’re at work.
If you share these values and have transferable skills we want to meet you!
