Pharmacy Technician Medicines Optimisation | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust in London

As part of our pharmacy service (OPS), you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (including pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, which encourages career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is a mental health and community trust that provides a wide and growing range of services across the boroughs of Bexley, Greenwich and Bromley and also services in Kent. Oxleas Prison Services Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and provides the pharmacy services to the prison pharmacy contracts. Due to the recent contract award from NHS England, we are now providing pharmacy services to Wandsworth Prison and are recruiting to newly established posts.

The pharmacy department has a long history of innovation, with established prescribing guidelines, excellent relationships with medical staff, a strong culture of leading clinical audit and research projects, and an excellent publication record. All of these attributes we wish to extend to the prison pharmacy services.

If you are a pharmacy technician wishing to gain experience in medicines management and administration work in a prison setting, this post could be for you. The post-holder will provide medicines management services to the prison house blocks on rotation. You will also work in the dispensaries and be an integral part of the pharmacy team.

We are looking for candidates with either of the following qualifications:

• Accredited Checking Technician (ACT) qualifications
• Medicines Management (MM) qualification

The post-holder will be based at the pharmacy department at HMP Wandsworth. We believe in supporting our staff to develop to their full potential.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• To provide a medicines optimisation service to HMP Wandsworth with the professional support of a prison services pharmacist.
• To undertake medicines reconciliation for prisoners admitted to HMP Wandsworth.
• To dispense prescriptions and stock items when in the dispensary.
• To work towards accreditation as a checking technician and/or medicines optimisation to provide final dispensing checks and medicines administration services.
• To ensure high standards of work in the dispensary, in clinics and when out on the wings and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.

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.
• 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.

This advert closes on Monday 17 Aug 2026.