Prison Services Clinical Pharmacist (Bank) - HMP Bristol

Job summary
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 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 patient's 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.

• To organise on a weekly basis the pharmacy clinical service provision to the allocated prisons, planning your work and the work of others.
• To provide clinical services to the allocated prisons.
• To ensure you personally have high standards of work, both clinical and dispensing and follow all standard operating procedures (SOPs) as directed by the Lead Prison Services Pharmacist.
• To work as a team with the pharmacy technician in the allocated prisons 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 prisons and to advice the prescribers on areas for improvement and efficiencies.
• To provide clinical screening and final accuracy checks when working 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
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities
Management Responsibilities

• To manage the day-to-day work of the pharmacy technician when on site in the allocated prisons.
• To manage your own time efficiently whilst on prison visits.

Clinical

• To undertake scheduled clinical visits to the allocated prisons. On these visits you will: a. undertake MURs for offenders identified as requiring assistance by healthcare staff. b. 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. c. 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 be an active member of the BSGW cluster clinical governance/medicines management committee(s).
• To work closely with the primary care providers to ensure safe prescribing, use, storage and transport of medicines within the secure environments.
• To 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 an appropriate use is identified. To train nursing staff in the BSGW cluster in the use of these PGDs and to monitor use/compliance on an on-going basis, reporting any discrepancies to the senior pharmacist prison services.
• 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 BSGW cluster.
• To participate in the on-call rota (as necessary) to provide support and advice to the primary care teams when the pharmacy is closed and to liaise with local community pharmacies to dispense urgent medicines during these times.
• 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 stock items 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 cluster.

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:

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 (

Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential

• Masters Degree of Pharmacy or equivalent
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council of GB (GPhC)
• Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice/Clinical Pharmacy/Mental Health or equivalent (or working towards)
• Registered Independent Pharmacist Prescriber

Desirable

• A member of or working towards Faculty Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience
Essential

• Previous prison/hospital/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

Desirable

• Experience of providing clinical services to mental health or substance misuse patients

Skills
Essential

• Recent clinical pharmacy practice in a GP practice or prison setting
• Sound clinical skills at diploma level

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.

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 Bristol, 19 Cambridge Road, Bristol, BS7 8PS, United Kingdom
Employer's website:

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Lead Prison Pharmacist Bristol Cluster, Lok Him Samuel Man, View email address on meeveem.com

Details
Date posted: 27 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £51,932 a year per annum pro-rata
Contract: Bank
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 277-BankPharmacist-HMPBr-C
Job locations: HMP Bristol, 19 Cambridge Road, Bristol, BS7 8PS, United Kingdom

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