Lead Pharmacy Technician Chelmsford
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Job summary
HCRG Care Group is seeking a Pharmacy Team Leader in Chelmsford to lead the pharmacy team within the prison healthcare setting. You will supervise, support staff rotas, and provide clinical leadership to ensure safe and effective medicines management.
The role requires a qualified ACT and registered pharmacy technician with GBP 42,324 per year, plus a range of benefits and opportunities for professional development.
Qualifications
- Registered pharmacy technician with UK registration.
- ACT certification (Accuracy Checking Technician).
- Experience in a prison environment is highly desirable.
Responsibilities
- Lead, supervise and develop the pharmacy team.
- Manage staffing rotas to ensure a safe and effective service.
- Provide clinical leadership, assess patients and maintain accurate records.
- Support audits and quality improvement initiatives in the service.
- Collaborate with wider healthcare teams to ensure safe medicines management.
Skills
Education
Job description
As a Pharmacy Team Leader you will be part of our valued team in our Pharmacy Service, HMP Chelmsford. You will be receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: Salary of £42,324.00 depending on experience, and Group Pension. Receive a competitive salary enhancement for working pattern will vary each week and will include weekend coverage. Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you. Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates. Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling. Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
Working as a Pharmacy Team Leader, you will provide high-quality care and medication treatment to patients with clinical indications in a prison setting. You will be part of a team delivering care to patients within the Healthcare Centres and on the Wings/House blocks within the prison environment while establishing and maintaining relationships with staff at all levels, customers, and other key stakeholders. As a leader, you will lead, supervise, and develop the pharmacy team, manage staffing rotas, and ensure the team has the skills and competencies required to deliver a safe and effective pharmacy service. You will offer clinical leadership, assess patients, support medication administration, maintain accurate records, and monitor compliance with professional standards. This role includes participation in multidisciplinary forums and quality improvement initiatives.
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, HCRG Care Group is one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services. We collaborate with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, and musculoskeletal services, as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities and directly help more than half a million people each year. We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of individuals who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident Committed company, providing facilities, work environment adjustments, and technical solutions to be as inclusive as possible.
Package Description:
As a Pharmacy Team Leader you will be part of our valued team in our Pharmacy Service, HMP Chelmsford. You will be receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Salary of £42,324.00 depending on experience, and Group Pension.
- Receive a competitive salary enhancement for working pattern will vary each week and will include weekend coverage
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Working as a Pharmacy Team Leader you will provide high quality care and medication treatment to patients with clinical indications in a prison setting. This role works as part of a team delivering care to patients both within the Healthcare Centres and on the Wings / House blocks within the prison environment as well as establishing and maintaining relationships with staff at all levels, customers and other key stakeholders. Candidate must to be flexible to cover shifts including weekends as and when needed and step up to provide support to the team.
The Pharmacy Team Leader will support in the development of the healthcare service and the healthcare staff.
The role will involve integrated working with all areas within the Prison and other services.
- Lead, supervise and develop the pharmacy team, including appraisals, performance management, training, induction, and probation support.
- Manage staffing rotas and ensure the team has the skills and competencies required to deliver a safe and effective pharmacy service.
- Provide clinical leadership, assessing patients, supporting medication administration, maintaining accurate records, and referring patients where appropriate.
- Monitor team performance, conduct, and documentation to ensure compliance with professional, clinical, and organisational standards.
- Lead pharmacy meetings and safety huddles, and contribute to multidisciplinary forums such as Medicines Management, Clinical Governance, and Drug Strategy meetings.
- Support audits, quality improvement initiatives, and service development to enhance patient outcomes and operational performance.
- Work collaboratively with the Lead Pharmacist, Pharmacy Manager, and wider healthcare teams to ensure safe medicines management across the prison.
- Provide operational support as required, including wing-based healthcare duties, report writing, and attendance at legal proceedings where necessary.
- Promote a positive, professional culture, challenging inappropriate behaviours and demonstrating effective leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Undertake any other duties appropriate to the role in line with service requirements.
Please note: This list is not exhaustive and may be amended to meet the changing needs of the service.
A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.
- Qualified ACT (Accuracy Checking Technician)
- Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
- Ability to build and develop relationships
- Strong leadership and management skills or working towards these with support and guidance
- Strong customer service skills
- Must be confident and capable of autonomous practice
- Registered pharmacy technician
- Experience in a similar role
- Experience in a Prison environment highly desirable
- Excellent medication knowledge
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
We change lives by transforming health and care.Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
As youd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company youll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job well need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
- Registered pharmacy technician, Qualified ACT (Accuracy Checking Technician), excellent medication knowledge, experience in a similar role, experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, experience in a prison environment highly desirable.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer name
HCRG Care Group
Address
HCRG Care Group
Chelmsford
CM2 6JT
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
Recruitment Team
HCRG Care Group
ask.hr@hcrgcaregroup.com
Date posted
02 September 2026
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£42,324 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
1545570762
Job locations
HCRG Care Group
Chelmsford
CM2 6JT
United Kingdom
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