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?
This is an excellent opportunity for a pharmacy technician to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.
Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patient’s future resettlement back into the community. We directly 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.
This position isn’t just a job; it’s a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.
Sponsorship
Important Sponsorship Information: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Role summary
As a Pharmacy Technician, you will be providing 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 a valid prescription, ensuring this is taken correctly, provide advice to patients about the appropriate use of medicines and promote healthy lifestyles to aid their rehabilitation.
You will dispense prescriptions and stock items, whilst supervising assistants when in the dispensary. There will also be elements of stock control involved in your role, such as undertaking stock top-up services and reviewing expiry dates and storage facilities for all medicines, reporting any deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist.
Responsibilities
* Dispense prescriptions and stock items, while supervising assistants in the dispensary and undertaking stock control tasks such as stock top-up, reviewing expiry dates and storage facilities, and reporting any deficiencies to the prison service pharmacist.
* Provide medicines management services and medicines optimisation within the prison setting; ensure adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
* Provide medicines administration to prisoners at the medicines administration times as part of a seven-day-a-week rota.
* Undertake medicines reconciliation for prisoners admitted to the prison.
* Be an accredited checking technician providing final dispensing checks or medicines optimisation qualification.
* Assist the Senior Prisons Technician with writing, updating and monitoring the use of medicines optimisation SOPs.
* Provide high standards of work in the dispensary, clinics and on wings and ensure all SOPs are read and adhered to.
Values
* We’re Kind
* We Listen
* We Care
Important information
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
Requirements to apply
* Proof of right to work documentation
* Proof of ID (must include 1 photographic ID)
* Proof of address documentation
* Non-UK passport holders must have the correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home Office Share code
* Address history: 5 years
* Applicants not UK Passport holders with less than 5 years UK address history must provide a Police Certificate in English from where they resided previously
* UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for more than six months during the last three years must provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited
* Guidance on obtaining Police Certificates: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
* For countries not listed, contact the relevant Embassy or High Commission for country-specific guidance (Foreign & Commonwealth Office website)
This advert closes on Thursday 21 Aug 2025.
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