Employer Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site John Radcliffe
Town Oxford
Salary £35,392 - £42,618 per annum pro rata
Salary period Yearly
Closing 09/03/2025 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 6
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is 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: John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington, and 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.
Job overview
Do you want to take your first steps into a hospital pharmacy career in a vibrant, nurturing, and supportive setting? This could be the post for you. The role offers the opportunity to apply your pharmaceutical knowledge across various specialties and to continuously build both your confidence and knowledge base through formal and informal learning. Typically, rotations are 6 months in duration, spanning across our different sites and including both medical and surgical clinical specialties. Your role will include taking responsibility and using initiative in managing your own workload while being a team player and knowing your limitations, asking for help and support as needed.
Are you ready to bring your enthusiasm and commitment to patient care and join our friendly and diverse pharmacy team?
We welcome applications from candidates due to sit the June 2025 registration assessment and join the register in August 2025.
Main duties of the job
The delivery of clinical pharmacy services to patients across our hospitals, gaining experience of a wide variety of medical and surgical rotations. The majority of the day will be spent on the wards working alongside the multidisciplinary team.
There are commitments to a dispensary, weekend, and late duty rota.
You will be supported to complete a post-graduate diploma, with support from dedicated supervisors and tutors.
After completing your post-graduate certificate and other development goals, you will be eligible to progress to a band 7 position.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Complete a local induction programme including core training, and maintain core skills throughout employment.
2. Act as a role model for pharmacy within the Trust, demonstrating Pharmacy Professional Standards and our Trust values.
3. Deliver compassionate excellence via a patient-focused clinical pharmacy service, in accordance with national medicines optimisation principles and local clinical pharmacy procedures.
4. Analyse prescriptions, alongside technical resources, patient records, and information from patient consults to form an opinion on the most appropriate course of action, communicating this in a way that supports shared decision-making.
5. Participate in and promote antimicrobial stewardship activities.
6. Accurately and sensitively communicate medicines-related information to a variety of healthcare professionals and patients.
7. Plan and organise your own workload in alignment with professional and organisational priorities.
8. Support compliance with medicines-related legislative and regulatory requirements, including maintaining the security and quality of medicines stock.
9. Undertake audits and quality improvement projects to support our culture of continuous improvement.
10. Report any unexpected or untoward events via the Trust's incident reporting system.
11. Where relevant to a rotation, complete training in clinical trials and support the supply of investigational medicinal products.
12. Undertake a program of study leading to a Postgraduate Clinical Diploma.
13. Support the training and mentoring of our trainee pharmacists and technicians, as well as colleagues who are new to the Trust.
14. Participate in unsociable hours weekend and bank holiday working according to service needs.
15. Any other reasonable duties as requested by the Clinical Director of Pharmacy, or Associate Director of Pharmacy – Clinical Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Masters Degree (4 year MPharm or equivalent) in Pharmacy
* Currently registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
* Ability to travel to all sites including the use of public transport
* Application of pharmacy knowledge to benefit patient care
* Working with other healthcare professionals
* Service improvement
* Patient consultations
* Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and relevant professional groups such as UKCPA
* Knowledge and experience in clinical pharmacy
* Audit/Quality improvement
* Electronic prescribing systems
COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues, and our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. While COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment, we encourage our staff to get vaccinated.
Probation Period: This post is subject to a 6 month probationary period.
Next Steps: Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification, and that your supporting statement reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria.
No unsolicited recruitment agency telephone calls or emails.
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