Bank Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - HMP Bristol | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a compassionate and motivated Pharmacy Technician to join their team at HMP Bristol. Responsibilities include providing a Medicines Management service, dispensing prescriptions, and supervising staff. Ideal candidates will have a background in medicines management and a commitment to ongoing professional development. This role requires working in a secure environment and conducting clinical visits. Willingness to undergo National Security Vetting is essential.

Benefits

NHS pension

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in medicines management in healthcare settings.
• Willingness to work in offender healthcare under supervision.
• Commitment to continuous professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide a Medicines Management service at allocated prisons.
• Oversee the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions.
• Supervise assistants in the dispensary.

Skills

Compassionate

Knowledgeable

Motivated

Experience in medicines management

Job description

Overview

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career. As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Medicine Management Pharmacy Technician's to join our friendly team at HMP Bristol on bank. As part of our pharmacy service (OPS), you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.

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.

Oxleas Prison Services Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and provides the pharmacy services to the prison pharmacy contracts. Due to the recent contract award from NHS England, we are now providing pharmacy services (OPS Ltd) and Healthcare Services (Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust) to the Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Devon and Dorset Prisons and are recruiting to newly established posts.

Oxleas Prison Services Ltd and Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust 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 and healthcare services.

Responsibilities

• To provide a Medicines Management service to the allocated prison(s) on a weekly basis with the professional support of a prison services pharmacist.
• To oversee the ordering/supply of repeat prescriptions.
• To supervise assistants, when in the dispensary in providing dispensing services for all the prisons.
• To dispense prescriptions and stock items when in the dispensary.
• To work towards accreditation as a checking technician and/or medicines administration to provide final dispensing checks and medicines administration services, if not already achieved.
• To ensure high standards of work in the dispensary and when out on prison visits and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.
• To manage own workload when providing medicines management services.
• To provide weekly clinical visits to the allocated prison(s), under the professional supervision of a pharmacist. On these visits the post-holder will: undertake a stock top-up service for all areas in which medicines are stored; review the expiry dates and storage facilities for all such medicines and report any deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist for that prison; assist the prison service pharmacist to provide advice to prisoners and staff about the appropriate use of medicines; undertake 3-monthly controlled drugs stock checks and report any issues to the prison service pharmacist for that prison; promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines or promotions; administer medicines to offenders against a valid prescription on the house blocks.
• To demonstrate on-going continual professional development (CPD) and be responsible for self-development and learning within the field of pharmacy or other specialty where appropriate.
• To participate in clinical and departmental audits as required.
• To appreciate the secure environment, you are working in and to adhere to all prison procedures as necessary.
• To undertake any other tasks at the request of the Lead Prison Services Pharmacist.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Pharmacy Technician with experience in medicines management.
• Willingness to work in offender healthcare settings and to operate under the supervision of a prison service pharmacist.
• Willingness to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting as part of pre-employment checks.
• Proof of right to work, proof of ID (1 photographic ID), proof of address; non-UK applicants must have correct right-to-work documentation and Home Office Share code; 5 years address history; where applicable, police certificates or good conduct checks as detailed in the screening guidance.
• Commitment to CPD and ongoing professional development.

Important information: This advert closes on Thursday 9 Oct 2025. All applicants should read the security and vetting requirements as part of the application process.