• Job Description

  Req#: C9277-25-0679?language=en&page=248&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  To (1) provide clinical pharmacy services to HMP Wadsworth and support the pharmacy technician(s) with medicines optimisation and (2) be a responsible pharmacist in the dispensary when rostered.

  Main duties of the job

  • To provide on a weekly basis a pharmacy clinical service to the allocated area(s) of HMP Wandsworth following standard operating procedures (SOPs).
  • To ensure you personally have high standards of work, both clinical and dispensing and follow all SOPs as directed by the senior prison services Pharmacist.
  • To work with the pharmacy technician(s) providing medicines optimisation and to support this technician professionally.
  • To implement the prison formulary, in collaboration with primary care colleagues.
  • To generate monthly reports on drug expenditure for the allocated healthcare area(s) and to advise the prescribers on areas for improvement and efficiencies.
  • To act as responsible pharmacist when rostered to do so in the dispensary.
  • To ensure all work is carried out in a timely manner to meet the requirements of medicines optimization technicians on the wings.

  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 Fair
  • We Listen
  • We Care

  Details

  Date posted

  04 June 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 6

  Salary

  £44,806 to £53,134 a year pa inc

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  277-7248669-WANDS

  Job locations

  HMP Wandsworth Prison

  Heathfield Road

  London

  SW13 8HS

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Key Task and Responsibilities

  • To provide on a weekly basis a pharmacy clinical service to the allocated area(s) of HMP Wandsworth following standard operating procedures (SOPs).
  • To ensure you personally have high standards of work, both clinical and dispensing and follow all SOPs as directed by the senior prison services Pharmacist.
  • To work with the pharmacy technician(s) providing medicines optimisation and to support this technician professionally.
  • To implement the prison formulary, in collaboration with primary care colleagues.
  • To generate monthly reports on drug expenditure for the allocated healthcare area(s) and to advise the prescribers on areas for improvement and efficiencies.
  • To act as responsible pharmacist when rostered to do so in the dispensary.
  • To ensure all work is carried out in a timely manner to meet the requirements of medicines optimization technicians on the wings.

  Management responsibilities

  • To supervise the day-to-day work of the pharmacy technicians and assistants when either out on the wings or in the dispensary.
  • To manage your own time efficiently whilst on prison visits.

  Clinical

  • To undertake scheduled medicines optimisation visits to the allocated area(s). On these visits you will:

  1. Undertake MURs for offenders identified as requiring assistance by healthcare staff.
  2. 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.
  3. Provide scheduled clinics for offenders to give advice and support on their prescribed medicines, OTC medicines and other medical issues they may raise.
  4. Monitor prescribing trends and give advice to healthcare staff to improve prescribing in line with formulary choices and/or current clinical thinking.
  5. Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines or promotions.
  6. To work closely with the primary care providers to ensure safe prescribing, use, storage and transport of medicines within the secure environments.
  7. To highlight to the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist where Patient Group Directions (PGDs) may be useful in the prison. To train nursing staff in the use of these PGDs and to monitor use/compliance on an on-going basis, reporting any discrepancies to the Prison Services Team Leader.
  8. To liaise with the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist to review PGDs in use every 1-2 years on a rolling basis as determined by the Prison Services Team Leader.
  9. To assist the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist to introduce new prescribing guidelines/medicines within HMP Wandsworth
  10. 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 issue stock if required 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 HMP Wandsworth

  Research

  • To follow systems in place to support the implementation of evidence-based guidelines into practice within the allocated prison(s).
  • To participate in clinical audit as required.

  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).

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Key Task and Responsibilities

  • To provide on a weekly basis a pharmacy clinical service to the allocated area(s) of HMP Wandsworth following standard operating procedures (SOPs).
  • To ensure you personally have high standards of work, both clinical and dispensing and follow all SOPs as directed by the senior prison services Pharmacist.
  • To work with the pharmacy technician(s) providing medicines optimisation and to support this technician professionally.
  • To implement the prison formulary, in collaboration with primary care colleagues.
  • To generate monthly reports on drug expenditure for the allocated healthcare area(s) and to advise the prescribers on areas for improvement and efficiencies.
  • To act as responsible pharmacist when rostered to do so in the dispensary.
  • To ensure all work is carried out in a timely manner to meet the requirements of medicines optimization technicians on the wings.

  Management responsibilities

  • To supervise the day-to-day work of the pharmacy technicians and assistants when either out on the wings or in the dispensary.
  • To manage your own time efficiently whilst on prison visits.

  Clinical

  • To undertake scheduled medicines optimisation visits to the allocated area(s). On these visits you will:

  1. Undertake MURs for offenders identified as requiring assistance by healthcare staff.
  2. 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.
  3. Provide scheduled clinics for offenders to give advice and support on their prescribed medicines, OTC medicines and other medical issues they may raise.
  4. Monitor prescribing trends and give advice to healthcare staff to improve prescribing in line with formulary choices and/or current clinical thinking.
  5. Promote healthy lifestyles for offenders in line with local and national guidelines or promotions.
  6. To work closely with the primary care providers to ensure safe prescribing, use, storage and transport of medicines within the secure environments.
  7. To highlight to the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist where Patient Group Directions (PGDs) may be useful in the prison. To train nursing staff in the use of these PGDs and to monitor use/compliance on an on-going basis, reporting any discrepancies to the Prison Services Team Leader.
  8. To liaise with the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist to review PGDs in use every 1-2 years on a rolling basis as determined by the Prison Services Team Leader.
  9. To assist the Specialist Prison Services Pharmacist to introduce new prescribing guidelines/medicines within HMP Wandsworth
  10. 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 issue stock if required 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 HMP Wandsworth

  Research

  • To follow systems in place to support the implementation of evidence-based guidelines into practice within the allocated prison(s).
  • To participate in clinical audit as required.

  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

  Essential

  • Masters of Pharmacy
  • Registered with GPhC

  Desirable

  • 1 year pharmacy experience

  Experience

  Essential

  • Knowledge of medicines and general pharmacy SOPs
  • Consultating Skills

  Desirable

  • MDT experience
  • SMS/MH Knowledge/experience

  Teamworking

  Essential

  • Experience of working within in a team

  Critical Thinking

  Essential

  • Critical thinking in difficult situations

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Masters of Pharmacy
  • Registered with GPhC

  Desirable

  • 1 year pharmacy experience

  Experience

  Essential

  • Knowledge of medicines and general pharmacy SOPs
  • Consultating Skills

  Desirable

  • MDT experience
  • SMS/MH Knowledge/experience

  Teamworking

  Essential

  • Experience of working within in a team

  Critical Thinking

  Essential

  • Critical thinking in difficult situations

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  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 Wandsworth Prison

  Heathfield Road

  London

  SW13 8HS

  
  

  Employer's website

  http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  HMP Wandsworth Prison

  Heathfield Road

  London

  SW13 8HS

  
  

  Employer's website

  http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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