Job summary
- Main area
- Offender Healthcare
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 277-8390332-MED
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- HMP Rochester
- Town
- Rochester
- Salary
- £27,760 - £29,476 pa inc, RRP inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Pharmacy Logistics Technician
NHS AfC: Band 3
Job overview
To deliver medicines from the HMP Pharmacy Rochester to the Kent and Medway prisons on scheduled deliveries. Collect signatures from authorised personnel for deliveries. Ensure the safe custody of medicines whilst in transit and ensuring all pharmacy delivery operations are WDA compliant and monitored. Ensuring all pharmacy delivery operations are GDPR compliant
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post
Main duties of the job
- To deliver medicines across the Kent and Medway prison estate as directed by the HMP Rochester Pharmacy.
- To ensure deliveries are signed for by appropriately authorised personnel within the prisons and to return signature records to the pharmacy for storage.
- To ensure that a radio is carried at all times within the prison
- To ensure all transit bags/boxes are sealed/locked prior to leaving the pharmacy department and are delivered intact to the correct destination in a timely manner.
- To follow the designated delivery route and communicate with prisons if there are unforeseen delays.
- To ensure that all pharmacy operations performed are GDPR compliant
- To ensure that all tasks performed are operating within the requirements of the WDA and GDP.
- To ensure all relevant Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to
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
Main Duties
- To ensure that returned original prescriptions from each prison site are matched with copies and filed in an organised manner
- To ensure that pharmaceutical waste is disposed of correctly according to SOPs and is kept securely until collected
- To assist the designated robot technician to prepare medication for use in the robot, when requested to do so
- To ensure the pharmacy vans are kept in a clean and tidy condition.
- To follow agreed procedures to address mechanical faults, motor accidents or signs indicating the requirement for mechanical repair/maintenance outside the agreed scheduled maintenance program. To inform the Senior Technician Prison Services once these actions are complete.
- To ensure vans are safely parked, always locked when not attended and the contents are kept secure throughout the delivery routes.
- To be responsible for the completion of safety checks/records at the beginning and end of each shift to comply with road safety legislation.
- To adhere to all documentation relating to the vans including manuals, SOPs etc. and to ensure all Oxleas’ policies and procedures are adhered to.
- To work with technical developments, as required, including satellite tracking systems and messaging services to enable live transmission of driver progress and analysis of associated data.
- To comply with all current transport legislation and adhere to the UK highway code.
- To ensure pharmaceutical sundries are well stocked within the dispensary and to notify the Senior Pharmacy Technician of any top up orders
- To temperature map new vans before use and bi-annually whilst in use, to ensure medication in transport is stored within suitable temperature limits at all times.
Communication
- To communicate with the pharmacy team at HMP Rochester Pharmacy if issues raise during the delivery schedule that require intervention by one of the team.
- To communicate with the prison security and operational staff if deliveries are delayed due to traffic or alternative vehicles are being used.
- To communicate with the authorised signatories if deliveries are to be delayed.
- To communicate with colleagues within your team to ensure deliveries are managed efficiently and in an organised manner
- Post holders will need to undertake a prison security check (level 1) prior to being employed, as well the standard NHS recruitment checks.
- To appreciate the secure environment you are working in and to adhere to all prison procedures as necessary.
- To undertake any other tasks at the request of the senior prison services pharmacist.
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
Possess a valid full UK driving license permitting driving in the UK and with no more than a maximum of 3 points, subject to DVLA check
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
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of vocational driving
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with medication deliveries
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience with manual handling- Handling and transporting heavy boxes, equipment or stock safely
Desirable criteria
- Previous prison/custodial, healthcare, security or other secure environment experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to work independently, meet delivery schedules, maintain accurate records and follow SOPs.
- Ability to work as part of a team, be proactive and adaptable
- Ability to take responsibility and communicate clearly with colleagues and external stakeholders
Desirable criteria
- Experience maintaining delivery documentation, stock records or audit trails in a regulated environment or similar
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Amrinder Singh
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacist for Kent & Medway Prisons
- Email address
- [email protected]
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