Senior Pharmacy Assistant
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The pharmacy department has a long history of innovation, with established prescribing guidelines, excellent relationships with medical staff, a strong culture of leading clinical audit and research projects and an excellent publication record. All of these attributes we wish to extend to the prison pharmacy services.
We believe in supporting our staff to develop to their full potential.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post
Main duties of the job
If you are a pharmacy assistant with experience of working in a prison setting or a retail pharmacy, this post could be for you. The post-holder will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the pharmacy stock and ensuring delivery schedules are to time. You will work under the supervision of the Senior Pharmacy Technician.
The post-holder will be based at the dedicated pharmacy department at HMP ISIS.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ Level 2
- Completion of dispensary competencies (signed off as competent to dispense medicines
Desirable
- Certificate in purchasing and supply (CIPS) level 2 or equivalent experience
Skills
Essential
- 2 years or more experience
Experience
Essential
- Experience in using JAC
Desirable
- Experience in dealing with wholesalers & Manufacturers
Communication
Essential
- Good knowledge of pharmacy stock control
Desirable
- Good interpersonal skills
About the employer
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 such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values: