Job Summary
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.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post
Main Duties of the Job
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.
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"I really enjoy working in the Pharmacy Service for Oxleas, my role is extremely varied and I work within a very supportive team. I find my role rewarding as it is all about enabling patient\'s rehabilitation and I enjoy interacting with patients daily and building relationships with them. Oxleas are a good employer and there are plenty of opportunities to be supported through qualifications and training which then allows you to progress through different bands within the team." – Amanda, Pharmacy Tech.
About us
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
Job Details
Date posted: 11 February 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £31,049 to £37,796 a year pa inc
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 277-7794866-ASH
Job Locations
HMP Ashfield
Bristol
BS16 9QJ
Key Task and Responsibilities
* To provide a medicines optimisation services to the prison.
* To provide a medicines administration service to offenders at the medicines administration times as part of a 7 day per week rota.
* To undertake medicines reconciliation for prisoners admitted to the prison.
* To supervise assistants, when in the dispensary in providing dispensing services.
* To be an accredited checking technician providing final dispensing checks or medicines optimisation qualification
* To ensure high standards of work in the dispensary, in clinics and for when out on the wings and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.
* To assist the Senior Prisons Technician with writing, updating and monitoring the use of medicines optimisation SOPs.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications – Essential
* NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent
* Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician
* Evidence of CPD
Education/Qualifications – Desirable
* Working towards Accredited Checking or MM Technician Certificate
Experience – Essential
* Previous experience of working in a pharmacy
Experience – Desirable
* Previous prison or mental health pharmacy experience
Skills and abilities – Essential
* Good knowledge of working within a set of SOPs
* Ability to use (or learn to use) computer packages including Pharmacy Manager/ JAC and Microsoft
Skills and abilities – Desirable
* Ability to use initiative to problem solve
* Some understanding of mental illness and substance misuse and their treatment
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer Details
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
HMP Ashfield
Bristol
BS16 9QJ
Employer's Website
http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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