Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 277-8390913-BRIS-A
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- HMP Bristol
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Prison Services Pharmacist
Band 7
Job overview
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Main duties of the job
- Coordinate and deliver structured medication review and minor ailment clinics.
- Manage repeat prescribing and reauthorisation through SystmOne.
- Provide medicines advice, adherence support and clinical reviews.
- Support patients with long-term conditions and high-risk medicines.
- Make evidence-based recommendations to prescribers.
- Support medicines governance, formulary management and clinical audits.
- Analyse medicines data and identify risks and areas for improvement.
- Provide education and training to pharmacy and healthcare colleagues.
- Undertake clinical screening and final accuracy checks when working in the dispensary.
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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).
Person specification
Qualifications and Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Master’s degree in Pharmacy or equivalent.
- Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, General Pharmacy Practice or equivalent, or currently working towards this.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Relevant Clinical Pharmacy Experience
Essential criteria
- At least three years’ experience delivering clinical pharmacy services.
- Experience in a UK prison, hospital or community pharmacy setting.
- Experience undertaking medication histories, structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation.
- Experience working within multidisciplinary teams and providing prescribing advice.
Clinical Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Recent clinical practice in a GP, hospital, or prison setting.
- Strong clinical reasoning and ability to interpret evidence and make safe recommendations.
Desirable criteria
- IT literacy; SystmOne experience is desirable
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zerin Erdogan
- Job title
- Regional Pharmacist - South West
- Email address
- [email protected]
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