Bank Prison Services Pharmacy Technician - HMP Guys Marsh
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- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Bank
- Pattern
- Flexible working
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 18/09/2026
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Role summary
As a Bank Prison Services Pharmacy Technician, you will provide a medicines management service to patients within HMP Guys Marsh, supported by a prison service pharmacist. Your duties include administering medicines, advising patients, dispensing prescriptions, and supervising assistants in the dispensary. You will also manage stock control, review expiry dates, and ensure proper storage of medicines. This role offers a varied and rewarding experience within offender healthcare.
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent
- Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician
- Previous experience of working in a pharmacy
Desirable criteria
- Previous prison or mental health pharmacy experience
- Good knowledge of working within a set of SOPs
- Ability to use (or learn to use) computer packages including Pharmacy Manager/ JAC and Microsoft
- NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services or equivalent
- Registration with GPhC as a pharmacy technician
- Previous experience of working in a pharmacy
- Previous prison or mental health pharmacy experience
- Good knowledge of working within a set of SOPs
- Ability to use (or learn to use) computer packages including Pharmacy Manager/ JAC and Microsoft
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £34,592 – £34,592 — matches the national scale.
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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Bank Prison Services Pharmacy Technician - HMP Guys Marsh
The closing date is 18 September 2026
Job summary
Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.
Oxleas NHS trust were awarded the South West prison contract in 2022 and currently have a portfolio of 19 prisons across the South of England. We are currently looking to expand our pool of bank workers by recruiting Pharmacy Technicians to work within the Prison service on a flexible basis.
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 patients 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.
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 a prison service p
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