Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Prisons Services Pharmacist

The closing date is 18 June 2025

Job 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.

Main duties of the job

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.

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

Date posted

04 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£44,806 to £53,134 a year pa inc

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

277-7248669-WANDS

Job locations

HMP Wandsworth Prison

Heathfield Road

London

SW13 8HS

Job description

Job responsibilities

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:

Undertake MURs for offenders identified as requiring assistance by healthcare staff.
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.
Provide scheduled clinics for offenders to give advice and support on their prescribed medicines, OTC medicines and other medical issues they may raise.
Monitor prescribing trends and give advice to healthcare staff to improve prescribing in line with formulary choices and/or current clinical thinking.
Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines or promotions.
To work closely with the primary care providers to ensure safe prescribing, use, storage and transport of medicines within the secure environments.
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.
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.
To assist the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist to introduce new prescribing guidelines/medicines within HMP Wandsworth
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).

Job description

Job responsibilities

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:

Undertake MURs for offenders identified as requiring assistance by healthcare staff.
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.
Provide scheduled clinics for offenders to give advice and support on their prescribed medicines, OTC medicines and other medical issues they may raise.
Monitor prescribing trends and give advice to healthcare staff to improve prescribing in line with formulary choices and/or current clinical thinking.
Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines or promotions.
To work closely with the primary care providers to ensure safe prescribing, use, storage and transport of medicines within the secure environments.
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.
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.
To assist the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist to introduce new prescribing guidelines/medicines within HMP Wandsworth
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:

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.

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Masters of Pharmacy
Registered with GPhC

Desirable

1 year pharmacy experience

Experience

Essential

Knowledge of medicines and general pharmacy SOPs
Consultating Skills

Desirable

MDT experience
SMS/MH Knowledge/experience

Teamworking

Essential

Experience of working within in a team

Critical Thinking

Essential

Critical thinking in difficult situations

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Masters of Pharmacy
Registered with GPhC

Desirable

1 year pharmacy experience

Experience

Essential

Knowledge of medicines and general pharmacy SOPs
Consultating Skills

Desirable

MDT experience
SMS/MH Knowledge/experience

Teamworking

Essential

Experience of working within in a team

Critical Thinking

Essential

Critical thinking in difficult situations

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 the 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).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Certificate of Sponsorship

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Wandsworth Prison

Heathfield Road

London

SW13 8HS

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Wandsworth Prison

Heathfield Road

London

SW13 8HS

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)