Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Pharmacist - Offender Healthcare

The closing date is 19 October 2025

Job summary

To (1) provide clinical pharmacy services to HMP Isis and support the pharmacy technician(s) with medicines optimisation and (2) be a responsible pharmacist in the dispensary when rostered.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

To provide on a weekly basis a pharmacy clinical service to the allocated prison(s), 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
To work with the pharmacy technician(s) in the allocated prison(s) and to support this technician professionally when on site.
To implement the prison formulary, in collaboration with primary care colleagues.
To generate monthly reports on drug expenditure for the allocated prison(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 the delivery service across the prisons.

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

06 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£44,485 to £52,521 a year pa inc

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

277-7518146-ISIS

Job locations

HMP Isis Prison

Western Way

London

SE8 0FZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

To provide on a weekly basis a pharmacy clinical service to the allocated prison(s), 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) in the allocated prison(s) and to support this technician professionally when on site.
To implement the prison formulary, in collaboration with primary care colleagues.
To generate monthly reports on drug expenditure for the allocated prison(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 the delivery service across the prisons.

Management Responsibilities

To supervise the day-to-day work of the pharmacy technician when on site in the allocated prison(s).
To manage your own time efficiently whilst on prison visits.

Clinical

To undertake scheduled clinical visits to the allocated prison(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 attend as necessary the allocated prison(s) clinical governance/medicines management committee(s) and provide information with the assistance of the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist.
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 allocated prison(s). To train nursing staff in your allocated prison(s) in the use of these PGDs and to monitor use/compliance on an on-going basis, reporting any discrepancies to the Lead Prison Services Pharmacist.
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 Lead Prison Services pharmacist.
To assist the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist to introduce new prescribing guidelines/medicines within the allocated prison(s).
To demonstrate on-going continual professional development (CPD) and be responsible for self-development and learning within the field of pharmacy or other speciality 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 the allocated prison(s).

Communication

Discuss with the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist, clinical judgments where information is highly complex or lacking or ambiguity exists prior to making a final clinical judgement. Where such judgements are outside of your clinical ability to refer the situation to a more senior pharmacist.
To communicate with the primary care team(s) in your allocated prisons to ensure the safe and secure prescribing, handling and storage of medicines.

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.

On-Call

To participate, as necessary, in the on-call rota to provide support and advice to the primary care teams when pharmacy is closed.
To liaise with the local community pharmacies to dispense urgent medicines during these times.

Other

Post holders will be subjected to an advanced DBS check, a prison security check (level 2) and CTC clearance prior to being employed.
To appreciate the secure environment you are working in and to adhere to all prison procedures as necessary.

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 soughtfrom: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 Tasks and Responsibilities

To provide on a weekly basis a pharmacy clinical service to the allocated prison(s), 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) in the allocated prison(s) and to support this technician professionally when on site.
To implement the prison formulary, in collaboration with primary care colleagues.
To generate monthly reports on drug expenditure for the allocated prison(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 the delivery service across the prisons.

Management Responsibilities

To supervise the day-to-day work of the pharmacy technician when on site in the allocated prison(s).
To manage your own time efficiently whilst on prison visits.

Clinical

To undertake scheduled clinical visits to the allocated prison(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 attend as necessary the allocated prison(s) clinical governance/medicines management committee(s) and provide information with the assistance of the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist.
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 allocated prison(s). To train nursing staff in your allocated prison(s) in the use of these PGDs and to monitor use/compliance on an on-going basis, reporting any discrepancies to the Lead Prison Services Pharmacist.
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 Lead Prison Services pharmacist.
To assist the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist to introduce new prescribing guidelines/medicines within the allocated prison(s).
To demonstrate on-going continual professional development (CPD) and be responsible for self-development and learning within the field of pharmacy or other speciality 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 the allocated prison(s).

Communication

Discuss with the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist, clinical judgments where information is highly complex or lacking or ambiguity exists prior to making a final clinical judgement. Where such judgements are outside of your clinical ability to refer the situation to a more senior pharmacist.
To communicate with the primary care team(s) in your allocated prisons to ensure the safe and secure prescribing, handling and storage of medicines.

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.

On-Call

To participate, as necessary, in the on-call rota to provide support and advice to the primary care teams when pharmacy is closed.
To liaise with the local community pharmacies to dispense urgent medicines during these times.

Other

Post holders will be subjected to an advanced DBS check, a prison security check (level 2) and CTC clearance prior to being employed.
To appreciate the secure environment you are working in and to adhere to all prison procedures as necessary.

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 soughtfrom: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 Isis Prison

Western Way

London

SE8 0FZ

Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HMP Isis Prison

Western Way

London

SE8 0FZ

Employer's website

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