Bank Prison Services Pharmacy Technician - HMP Portland | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Pharmacy Technician to provide medicines management services within a prison setting. The role involves administering medications, dispensing prescriptions, and maintaining stock control. Applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting, provide proof of right to work, and have a history of residence in the UK. The position offers a chance to make a positive impact while working in healthcare for offenders.

Qualifications

• Must be willing to undergo National Security Vetting to work in a Prison Setting.
• Provide proof of right to work documentation and ID.
• 5 years of address history required.

Responsibilities

• Provide medicines management and administration services within the prison.
• Administer medicines against prescriptions and dispense prescriptions.
• Carry out stock control activities and report deficiencies.

Skills

Medicines management

Administrative skills

Attention to detail

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.

Oxleas NHS Trust were awarded the South West prison contract in 2022 and currently have a portfolio of 19 prisons across the South of England. We are expanding our pool of bank workers by recruiting Pharmacy Technicians to work within the Prison service on a flexible basis.

Role summary

As a Pharmacy Technician, you will provide 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 valid prescriptions, provide advice on the appropriate use of medicines, and promote healthy lifestyles to aid rehabilitation. You will dispense prescriptions and stock items, supervise assistants in the dispensary, and undertake stock control tasks such as stock top-up, reviewing expiry dates and storage facilities, and reporting deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist.

Responsibilities

• Provide medicines management and administration services within the prison setting, including administration of medicines against prescriptions.
• Dispense prescriptions and stock items; supervise dispensary assistants.
• Carry out stock control activities (top-ups, expiry date reviews, storage checks) and report deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist.
• Be an accredited checking technician providing final dispensing checks or medicines optimisation qualification, where applicable.
• Ensure high standards of work in the dispensary, clinics, and on the wings; adhere to all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Assist the Senior Prisons Technician with writing, updating and monitoring medicines optimisation SOPs.

About Oxleas

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure settings. Services include community care (district nursing, speech and language therapy), care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care (psychiatry, nursing and therapies). Our multidisciplinary teams work with NHS colleagues, local councils and the voluntary sector. We employ over 4,300 staff across hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes. We have over 125 sites in the South of England and London.

We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services, delivering care to prisons in Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. Our values are: We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen, We Care.

Requirements and qualifications

• All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting to work in a Prison Setting; this will be completed as part of pre-employment checks.
• Provide proof of right to work documentation and ID (including one photographic ID) and proof of address.
• Non-UK passport holders must have correct right-to-work documentation and a Home Office Share code.
• 5 years of address history is required. If less than 5 years UK address history, a Police Certificate in English from prior residences is required. UK passport holders who have lived abroad for more than six months in the last three years must provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English.
• Guidance for obtaining a Police Certificate is available; follow government guidance if applicable.

This advert closes on Thursday 9 Oct 2025.