Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative, and fast-paced work environment? Do you want to transition from your current role to work with people to build positive and productive lives, regardless of their past? Now is the time to develop your career in offender healthcare.
As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS Trust in 2022, we are expanding our recruitment and seeking compassionate, knowledgeable, and motivated Medicine Management Pharmacy Technicians to join our friendly team at HMP Bristol on a bank basis.
In our pharmacy service (OPS), you will enjoy the benefits of NHS AfC employment (including pension) and have the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service that encourages career and personal development to enhance your clinical and interpersonal skills.
As a Pharmacy Technician, you will provide medicines management services to patients within the prison, supported professionally by a prison service pharmacist. Your duties will include administering medicines against valid prescriptions, advising patients on proper medication use, and promoting healthy lifestyles to aid their rehabilitation.
You will dispense prescriptions and stock items, supervise assistants in the dispensary, and handle stock control tasks such as stock top-ups, expiry date reviews, and storage checks, reporting any issues to the pharmacist.
Wondering what it’s like to work within offender healthcare?
“I really enjoy working in the Pharmacy Service for Oxleas. My role is varied, and I work within a supportive team. It’s rewarding to enable patient rehabilitation, and I enjoy daily interactions and building relationships with patients. Oxleas supports professional development through qualifications and training, allowing career progression.” — Amanda, Pharmacy Tech.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services in community and secure environments, including community health, learning disabilities, and mental health care. Our multidisciplinary teams serve people of all ages across many settings, including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools, and homes.
We operate over 125 sites across the South of England, including London boroughs and hospital sites such as Queen Mary’s Hospital and Memorial Hospital. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services in several counties and pride ourselves on the quality of care and our dedicated staff.
Our purpose is to improve lives through excellent care, guided by our values:
* We’re Kind
* We’re Compassionate
* We Listen
* We Care
Key responsibilities include:
1. Providing weekly medicines management services to assigned prisons under pharmacist supervision.
2. Overseeing the ordering and supply of repeat prescriptions.
3. Supervising dispensary assistants.
4. Dispensing prescriptions and stock items.
5. Working towards accreditation as a checking technician and/or medicines administration.
6. Maintaining high standards in the dispensary and adhering to SOPs.
7. Managing workload independently.
8. Conducting weekly clinical visits to prisons, including stock checks, expiry reviews, and patient advice.
9. Promoting healthy lifestyles among offenders.
10. Administering medicines against prescriptions on the house blocks.
11. Engaging in CPD and departmental audits.
12. Adhering to prison procedures and undertaking additional tasks as requested.
Oxleas Prison Services Ltd is a subsidiary of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, providing pharmacy services to various prisons. Due to recent contracts, we are establishing new posts in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Devon, and Dorset.
We have a proud history of innovation, clinical research, and strong relationships with medical staff, which we aim to extend into our prison healthcare services.
Important Information:
Applicants must be willing to undergo National Security Vetting, with checks conducted by Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
You will need to provide proof of right to work, proof of ID (including a photographic ID), proof of address, and, if applicable, share codes or police certificates based on your residency history.
The advert closes on Monday 12 May 2025.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
We encourage applicants with disabilities to apply, as we are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process.
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