Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?
This is an excellent opportunity for a pharmacy technician to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.
Job Title: Prison Services Pharmacy Technician
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £31,049 to £37,796 a year pa inc
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Deadline: The closing date is 24 September 2025.
Roles & Responsibilities
As a Pharmacy Technician, you will be providing a medicines management service to patients within the prison with the professional support of a prison service pharmacist. You will administer medicines to patients against a valid prescription, ensuring this is taken correctly, provide advice to patients about the appropriate use of medicines and promote healthy lifestyles to aid their rehabilitation.
You will dispense prescriptions and stock items, whilst supervising assistants when in the dispensary. There will also be elements of stock control involved in your role, such as undertaking stock top-up services and reviewing expiry dates and storage facilities for all medicines, reporting any deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist.
Eligibility Requirements
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent
- Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable
- Working towards Accredited Checking or MM Technician Certificate
Experience
Essential
- 2 years’ experience of working in a pharmacy
Desirable
- Previous prison or mental health pharmacy experience
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Good knowledge of working within a set of SOPs
- Ability to use (or learn to use) computer packages including Pharmacy Manager/ JAC and Microsoft
Desirable
- Some understanding of mental illness and substance misuse and their treatment
- Ability to use initiative to problem solve.
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