Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Advanced Pharmacist Acute Medicine Rehabilitation

The closing date is 28 January 2026

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 .

Details

Date posted

13 January 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£55,690 to £62,682 a year Per Annum / Pro Rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

321-MRC-7689845-B8A

Job locations

John Radcliffe Hospital

Oxford

OX39DU


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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

John Radcliffe Hospital

Oxford

OX39DU


Employer's website

https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

John Radcliffe Hospital

Oxford

OX39DU


Employer's website

https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Divisional Lead Pharmacist MRC

Anand Pankhania

anand.pankhania@ouh.nhs.uk

Details

Date posted

13 January 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£55,690 to £62,682 a year Per Annum / Pro Rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

321-MRC-7689845-B8A

Job locations

John Radcliffe Hospital

Oxford

OX39DU


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