Prison Services Pharmacist

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Long Cross; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 7 Prison Services Clinical Pharmacist to lead medicines optimisation for prisoners at HMP Guys Marsh. You will manage repeat prescribing, deliver structured medication reviews and minor ailment clinics, and work with GPs, nurses and mental health teams to ensure safe, effective medicines.

This role offers clinical leadership, governance support, and opportunities to drive service improvements within a secure environment.

Qualifications

• Experience as a clinical pharmacist with medicines optimisation leadership.
• Ability to lead structured medication reviews and clinics.
• Collaborative working with GPs, nurses and mental health teams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and deliver structured medication reviews and minor ailment clinics.
• Manage repeat prescribing and reauthorisation through SystmOne.
• Provide medicines advice, adherence support and clinical reviews.
• Support patients with long‑term conditions and high‑risk medicines.
• Make evidence‑based recommendations to prescribers.
• Support medicines governance, formulary management and clinical audits.
• Analyse medicines data and identify risks and areas for improvement.
• Provide education and training to pharmacy and healthcare colleagues.
• Undertake clinical screening and final accuracy checks when working in the dispensary.

Skills

Medicines optimisation

Clinical leadership

Structured medication reviews

Patient safety

Communication skills

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Are you an experienced clinical pharmacist looking for a rewarding role where your expertise can make a real difference? We are seeking a motivated Band 7 Prison Services Clinical Pharmacist to join our integrated healthcare team at HMP Guys Marsh. You will lead medicines optimisation for patients with long‑term and acute conditions, manage repeat prescribing, and deliver structured medication reviews and minor ailment clinics. Working closely with GPs, nurses, pharmacy colleagues, mental health and substance misuse teams, you will support the safe, effective and patient‑centred use of medicines within a secure environment. This is an excellent opportunity to use your clinical knowledge, leadership skills and commitment to service improvement while helping patients achieve better health outcomes.,

• Coordinate and deliver structured medication review and minor ailment clinics.
• Manage repeat prescribing and reauthorisation through SystmOne.
• Provide medicines advice, adherence support and clinical reviews.
• Support patients with long‑term conditions and high‑risk medicines.
• Make evidence‑based recommendations to prescribers.
• Support medicines governance, formulary management and clinical audits.
• Analyse medicines data and identify risks and areas for improvement.
• Provide education and training to pharmacy and healthcare colleagues.
• Undertake clinical screening and final accuracy checks when working in the dispensary.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.

This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care