Bank Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - HMP Bristol
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Bank
- Pattern
- Flexible working
- Posted
- 21/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Bank Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician at HMP Bristol, working within the South West Prison Healthcare contract. You will provide medicines management services to patients, administer medicines, and offer advice on appropriate use. The role involves dispensing prescriptions, supervising assistants, and managing stock control, all under the professional support of a prison service pharmacist. It offers NHS AfC employment benefits and opportunities for career development within a secure environment.
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: £34,592 – £34,592 — matches the national scale.
Posted 9d ago · Closes in 8d
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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 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.
As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Medicine Management Pharmacy Technician's to join our friendly team at HMP B ristol on bank.
As part of our pharmacy service (OPS), you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
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 pharmacist. You will administer medicines to patients against a valid prescription, ensuring this is taken correctly, provide advice to patients about the appropriate use of medicines and promote healthy lifestyles to aid their rehabilitation.
You will dispense prescriptions and stock items, whilst supervising assis
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