Overview
Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?
Our healthcare team has a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison. We deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future. As part of our pharmacy service (OPS), you will benefit from NHS AfC employment with the opportunity to develop clinically and interpersonally in a forward‑thinking service that supports career growth.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Responsibilities
* Provide a medicines management service to patients within the prison with professional support from a prison service pharmacist.
* Administer medicines to patients against valid prescriptions, ensuring correct administration and offering advice on appropriate use and healthy lifestyles to aid rehabilitation.
* Dispense prescriptions and stock items, supervise assistants in the dispensary, and undertake stock control tasks including top‑ups, expiry date reviews and storage facility checks; report any deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist.
* Provide medicines administration at appropriate times as part of a 7‑day per week rota; undertake medicines reconciliation for prisoners admitted to the prison.
* Be an accredited checking technician providing final dispensing checks or hold a medicines optimisation qualification; ensure high standards of work across the dispensary, clinics, and on wings, and comply with all Standard Operating Procedures.
* 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 environments. Our services include district nursing, 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 work in partnership with the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector through provider collaboratives. We employ 4,300 staff across hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We operate over 125 sites in the South of England, including London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites and the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services across multiple regions and are committed to care and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families, guided by our values: We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen, We Care.
Key Information
Key tasks and responsibilities include:
* Provide medicines optimisation services to the prison.
* Provide medicines administration services to offenders on a 7‑day rota.
* Undertake medicines reconciliation for prisoners admitted to the prison.
* Supervise assistants in providing dispensing services in the dispensary.
* Be an accredited checking technician or hold a medicines optimisation qualification.
* Maintain high standards in the dispensary, clinics and on wings; ensure SOPs are read and adhered to.
* Assist with writing, updating and monitoring medicines optimisation SOPs.
Additional Information
The full job description can be downloaded in the supporting documents section. Oxleas Prison Services Ltd is the subsidiary responsible for prison pharmacy contracts and supports NHS provider activities. This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Mar 2026.
Important information: All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting to work in a prison setting, completed as part of pre‑employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
You will need to provide: proof of right to work, proof of ID (one photographic ID), proof of address, and, for non‑UK passport holders, correct right to work documentation and a Home Office Share code. Address history for the last 5 years is required. Applicants not UK passport holders with less than five years UK address history may need a Police Certificate, English language certificates, or equivalent documents as applicable.
Further guidance for police certificates can be sought from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants. If your country is not listed, contact the relevant Embassy or High Commission. See the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website for guidance.
This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Mar 2026.
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