Job details
Main area: Prisons
Grade: 7
Contract: Bank Hours (up to 37.5 hours per week, bank hours are ad‑hoc and not guaranteed)
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
Job ref 277-BankPharmacist-HMPBri
Site: HMP Bristol Town, Bristol
Salary: £51,932 per annum pro‑rata (Yearly)
Closing date: 07/07/2026 23:59
Job 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 Clinical Pharmacist 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 has a real impact on promoting health and well‑being for those in prison. We pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients’ 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.
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical pharmacy services to the allocated prisons and support the pharmacy technician(s) on these visits and be a responsible pharmacist in the dispensary when rostered.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Management responsibilities
- Manage the day‑to‑day work of the pharmacy technician when on site in the allocated prisons.
- Manage your own time efficiently whilst on prison visits.
Clinical
- Undertake scheduled clinical visits to the allocated prisons, including:
- 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 current clinical thinking.
- Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines or promotions.
- Be an active member of the BSGW cluster clinical governance/medicines management committee(s).
- Work closely with the primary care providers to ensure safe prescribing, use, storage and transport of medicines within the secure environments.
- Liaise with the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist and assist in writing, in collaboration with primary care colleagues in the BSGW cluster, Patient Group Directions (PGDs) when a suitable use is identified. Train nursing staff in the cluster in the use of these PGDs and monitor use/compliance on an ongoing basis, reporting any discrepancies to the senior pharmacist prison services.
- Review PGDs in use every 1–2 years on a rolling basis as determined by the Lead Prison Services Pharmacist.
- Assist the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist to introduce new prescribing guidelines or medicines within the BSGW cluster.
- Participate in the on‑call rota (as necessary) to provide support and advice to the primary care teams when the pharmacy is closed and liaise with local community pharmacies to dispense urgent medicines during these times.
- Demonstrate ongoing continuous professional development (CPD) and be responsible for self‑development and learning within the field of pharmacy or another specialty where appropriate.
Dispensary
- Act as responsible pharmacist when rostered to do so in the dispensary.
- Dispense prescriptions and stock items when in the dispensary.
- Undertake clinical screening and final accuracy checks when working in the dispensary.
- Organise the sale of OTC medicines following a request from an offender in the allocated prison cluster.
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings, including district nursing, 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 work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector. We operate over 125 sites across the South of England, including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services, delivering healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, 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 reinforced by our values: We Listen, We Care.
Education & Qualifications
- Masters Degree of Pharmacy or equivalent
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council of GB (GPhC)
- Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, Clinical Pharmacy or Mental Health (or working towards)
- Registered Independent Pharmacist Prescriber
- Member of or working towards Faculty Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Experience
- Previous prison, hospital or community pharmacy experience in the UK
- At least 4 years experience of providing clinical pharmacy services
- At least 2 years experience of providing clinical services within prisons or GP practices
- Experience of providing clinical services to mental health or substance misuse patients
Skills
- Recent clinical pharmacy practice in a GP practice or prison setting
- Sound clinical skills at diploma level
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Compliance
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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