Job overview

A brilliant opportunity has arisen for a talented, experienced and pro-active pharmacy technician to develop and lead the provision of high-quality pharmacy services at HMP & YOI Parc, within Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.

Are you an experienced, enthusiastic and motivated leader with extensive pharmacy experience? Have you ever considered working in a prison environment? This post could be for you. The secure environment is a unique setting that combines elements of Primary Care, Hospital and Community pharmacy. This is a new post which will work closely with the senior pharmacy team, both within HMP & YOI Parc and more widely across CTMUHB, as well as the multidisciplinary healthcare team to ensure safe and efficient delivery of pharmacy services to patients at HMP & YOI Parc.

This is a hugely exciting time for an individual with drive, passion and vision to join the team with various projects ongoing including delivery of a wide-scale training programme to the pharmacy team and planning for service delivery to an increased patient population in line with the proposed HMP & YOI Parc expansion plans. This is your chance to make a real difference in a senior role with autonomy and support.

English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply

Main duties of the job

As Chief Pharmacy Technician, you will be responsible for the effective management and delivery of pharmacy services at HMP & YOI Parc, ensuring the safe administration of medication to patients in line with national and organisational standards. This includes leading and managing the Pharmacy team, consisting of pharmacy technicians and pharmacy support staff, and planning, auditing, monitoring and developing the services in liaison with the management team.

This is a rewarding role for an individual who has strong leadership skills, is an excellent communicator, confident and able to deliver a pharmacy service across Primary Care, Substance Misuse & Mental Health Services. You will be responsible for all aspects of strategic management of the medicines management service, in conjunction with other senior team members, whilst fostering effective working relationships with operational colleagues and other stakeholders.

This post is key to the development and delivery of high quality, evidence based health and wellbeing services to give prisoners access to interventions and support equitable to those provided by the NHS in the community. To support this, you will be responsible for ensuring recruitment, training programmes, induction plans, and competency assessments are developed and maintained within the pharmacy service and for all grades of pharmacy technician and assistant staff.

Working for our organisation

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family.  Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.