Prison Services Pharmacy Technician
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an excellent opportunity for a pharmacy technician to join a healthcare team delivering care within a prison setting. The role involves providing medicines management services, administering medicines, dispensing prescriptions, and supervising assistants. It also includes stock control and promoting healthy lifestyles for patient rehabilitation. This position offers a challenging yet rewarding environment focused on patient-centred care.
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent
- Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
- Working towards Accredited Checking or MM Technician Certificate
- 2 years' experience of working in a pharmacy
- Previous prison or mental health pharmacy experience
- Skills and Abilities
- Good knowledge of working within a set of SOPs
- Ability to use (or learn to use) computer packages including Pharmacy Manager/ JAC and Microsoft
- Some understanding of mental illness and substance misuse and their treatment
- Ability to use initiative to problem solve
- Education/Qualifications
- NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent
- Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician
- Evidence of CPD
- Working towards Accredited Checking or MM Technician Certificate
- 2 years' experience of working in a pharmacy
- Previous prison or mental health pharmacy experience
- Skills and Abilities
- Good knowledge of working within a set of SOPs
- Ability to use (or learn to use) computer packages including Pharmacy Manager/ JAC and Microsoft
- Some understanding of mental illness and substance misuse and their treatment
- Ability to use initiative to problem solve
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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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 pharmacy technician 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.
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Main duties of the job
As a Pharmacy Technician, you will be providing a medicines management service to patients within the prison with the professional support of
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