Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge within Acute Medicine Rehabilitation. We are looking for 2 enthusiastic and committed pharmacists to join our team. One post holder will lead the hospital at home pharmacy team at Oxford University Hospitals. The second post holder will lead the Acute Admission team.
The post holders will be active members of both the Pharmacy and Sterile Services and act as experts within Acute Medicine.
Delivering clinical practice and service development for patient care ensuring the best experience and outcomes for patients from their medicines whenever and wherever their care is delivered.
There are opportunities to develop clinical assessment skills and be involved in the assessment of patients and delivery of care.
Main duties of the job
Be or become a knowledge expert in clinical pharmacy relating to Hospital at Home (H@H) or Acute Emergency Admission including prescribing, screening, advising, and optimising medicines use in the area.
Promote, monitor, and improve the safe and cost-effective use of medicines through regular communication, budgetary reports and feedback to the directorate
Develop and lead the pharmacy service to your clinical area
Routinely review, update, or develop medicines related guidelines
Provide pharmaceutical advice to patients, carers, or specialists
Have delegated responsibility for specific aspects of your clinical area
Support and deputise for the Directorate Pharmacist in the provision of a safe, effective, and efficient clinical pharmacy service to the Acute Medicine Rehabilitation directorate, in accordance with local and national standards and strategy
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.
Candidates who are successful at being shortlisted for this role will undergo a two stage interview process of a values based interview, followed by a a technical interview .
Job description
Job responsibilities
Be or become a knowledge expert in clinical pharmacy relating to Acute MedicineRehabilitation(AMR) including prescribing, screening, advising, and optimising medicines use in the area
Promote, monitor, and improve the safe and cost-effective use of medicines through regular communication, budgetary reports and feedback to the directorate
Develop and lead the pharmacy services
See job description for full details
Job description
Job responsibilities
Be or become a knowledge expert in clinical pharmacy relating to Acute MedicineRehabilitation(AMR) including prescribing, screening, advising, and optimising medicines use in the area
Promote, monitor, and improve the safe and cost-effective use of medicines through regular communication, budgetary reports and feedback to the directorate
Develop and lead the pharmacy services
See job description for full details
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified to masters degree level (4 year MPharm) or equivalent Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Post-Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent experience.
- Leadership qualification or training.
- Independent Prescriber
Desirable
- MSc in Clinical Pharmacy
- Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) or complete some of this course modules
Experience
Essential
- Broad clinical pharmacy provision in a number of different clinical areas or sectors.
- Working with senior clinicians and managers.
- Understanding of medication funding streams, drug usage and expenditure reports and use of financial reports to influence business cases and clinical practice.
- Delivering quality improvements
- Change management at a team level
- Negotiating and influencing
- Able to work autonomously or within a team
- Proven time management skills ability to work under pressure.
Desirable
- Recent clinical experience in the Acute Medicine
- Positive attitude to all tasks and stakeholders
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified to masters degree level (4 year MPharm) or equivalent Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Post-Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent experience.
- Leadership qualification or training.
- Independent Prescriber
Desirable
- MSc in Clinical Pharmacy
- Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) or complete some of this course modules
Experience
Essential
- Broad clinical pharmacy provision in a number of different clinical areas or sectors.
- Working with senior clinicians and managers.
- Understanding of medication funding streams, drug usage and expenditure reports and use of financial reports to influence business cases and clinical practice.
- Delivering quality improvements
- Change management at a team level
- Negotiating and influencing
- Able to work autonomously or within a team
- Proven time management skills ability to work under pressure.
Desirable
- Recent clinical experience in the Acute Medicine
- Positive attitude to all tasks and stakeholders
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.
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.
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).
