Prisons Services Pharmacist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	04 June 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£44,806 - £53,134 pa inc
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	04 July 2025
Location:	London, SW13 8HS
Company:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7248669/277-7248669-WANDS

Summary

To (1) provide clinical pharmacy services to HMP Wadsworth and support the pharmacy technician(s) with medicines optimisation and (2) be a responsible pharmacist in the dispensary when rostered.
• To provide on a weekly basis a pharmacy clinical service to the allocated area(s) of HMP Wandsworth following standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• To ensure you personally have high standards of work, both clinical and dispensing and follow all SOPs as directed by the senior prison services Pharmacist.
• To work with the pharmacy technician(s) providing medicines optimisation and to support this technician professionally.
• To implement the prison formulary, in collaboration with primary care colleagues.
• To generate monthly reports on drug expenditure for the allocated healthcare area(s) and to advise the prescribers on areas for improvement and efficiencies.
• To act as responsible pharmacist when rostered to do so in the dispensary.
• To ensure all work is carried out in a timely manner to meet the requirements of medicines optimization technicians on the wings.

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

Key Task and Responsibilities
• To provide on a weekly basis a pharmacy clinical service to the allocated area(s) of HMP Wandsworth following standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• To ensure you personally have high standards of work, both clinical and dispensing and follow all SOPs as directed by the senior prison services Pharmacist.
• To work with the pharmacy technician(s) providing medicines optimisation and to support this technician professionally.
• To implement the prison formulary, in collaboration with primary care colleagues.
• To generate monthly reports on drug expenditure for the allocated healthcare area(s) and to advise the prescribers on areas for improvement and efficiencies.
• To act as responsible pharmacist when rostered to do so in the dispensary.
• To ensure all work is carried out in a timely manner to meet the requirements of medicines optimization technicians on the wings.

Management responsibilities
• To supervise the day-to-day work of the pharmacy technicians and assistants when either out on the wings or in the dispensary.
• To manage your own time efficiently whilst on prison visits.

Clinical
• To undertake scheduled medicines optimisation visits to the allocated area(s). On these visits you will:
1. Undertake MUR’s for offenders identified as requiring assistance by healthcare staff.
2. Review the medication history of newly admitted offenders to ensure prescriptions are correct and if necessary, make recommendations to bring prescribing in line with local formulary choices.
3. Provide scheduled clinics for offenders to give advice and support on their prescribed medicines, OTC medicines and other medical issues they may raise.
4. Monitor prescribing trends and give advice to healthcare staff to improve prescribing in line with formulary choices and/or current clinical thinking.
5. Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines or promotions.
6. To work closely with the primary care providers to ensure safe prescribing, use, storage and transport of medicines within the secure environments.
7. To highlight to the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist where Patient Group Directions (PGDs) may be useful in the prison. To train nursing staff in the use of these PGDs and to monitor use/compliance on an on-going basis, reporting any discrepancies to the Prison Services Team Leader.
8. To liaise with the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist to review PGDs in use every 1-2 years on a rolling basis as determined by the Prison Services Team Leader.
9. To assist the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist to introduce new prescribing guidelines/medicines within HMP Wandsworth
10. To demonstrate on-going continual professional development (CPD) and be responsible for self-development and learning within the field of pharmacy or other specialty where appropriate.

Dispensary
• To act as responsible pharmacist when rostered to do so in the dispensary.
• To dispense prescriptions and issue stock if required when in the dispensary.
• To undertake clinical screening and final accuracy checks when working in the dispensary.
• To organise the sale of OTC medicines following a request from an offender in HMP Wandsworth

Research
• To follow systems in place to support the implementation of evidence-based guidelines into practice within the allocated prison(s).
• To participate in clinical audit as required.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

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.  

You will need to provide: 

Proof of right to work documentation 

Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID

Proof of address documentation 

Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code. 

Address History: 

5 years address history will be needed.  

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously. 

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).


This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Jun 2025

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