Bank Prison Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - HMP

Band 5

Main area Pharmacy Grade Band 5 Contract Bank Hours Flexible working - 37.5 hours per week (Up to 37.5hrs p/wk, Please note bank hours are ad-hoc and not guaranteed) Job
-Bank Pharm B5 -HMPExe-F

Site HMP Exeter Town Exeter Salary £34,592 Per annum pro-rata Salary period Yearly Closing 07/10/2026 23:59

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.

As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Pharmacy Technician’s to join our friendly team on bank at HMP The Verne.

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 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.

As part of our pharmacy team, you will work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.

Working under the supervision of our Senior Pharmacy Technicians and Regional Pharmacists you will contribute towards the smooth and efficient running of the pharmacy and medicines management service on site within the prison.

This will include:

• All aspects of stock control (routine ordering, receipt of goods, computer input, storage of medicines).
• Requesting and managing prescriptions and dealing with patients’ medication requests.
• You will work out of Medication Administration Points (Meds hatches) on the wings and in the healthcare department, administering medication to the patients or acting as the second checker for controlled drug administration.

Oxleas – 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 Listen
• We Care