A Vacancy at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
We are looking for an inspiring, experienced paediatric pharmacist to lead our large paediatric pharmacy team. Oxford Children's Hospital is a hospital within a hospital, and offers paediatric services across 4 inpatient wards and 1 oncology ward. They are joined with one of the top 4 largest neonatal intensive care units in the UK, and a 17 bedded paediatric critical care unit. Children's services also extend to the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
The paediatric pharmacy team is made up of 19 members of staff, ranging from band 3 to band 8A.
We are looking for someone practicing at a Highly Advanced level in paediatrics, who is looking for a mix of leadership and expert clinical practice.
Reporting to the Divisional Lead Pharmacist for NOTSSCaN, they maintain a key relationship between children’s the pharmacy directorates to ensure medicines, paediatrics and pharmacy are at the forefront of any service developments.
1. To ensure the safe and effective use of medicines within the Childrens and Neonates Directorate, promoting economy and improvements in quality, safety and cost effectiveness, and medicines optimisation.
2. To ensure all members of the paediatric pharmacy team are trained and competent for their role through training, development and appraisal.
3. To support and deputise for the Divisional Pharmacist for NOTSSCaN and manage, strategically lead and co-ordinate the paediatric pharmacy team in the provision of a safe, effective and efficient clinical pharmacy service to the Directorate, in accordance with local and national standards and strategy.
Oxford, the “city of dreaming spires” is world renowned, and contains the oldest university in the English-speaking world. It has a variety of famous monuments and buildings, cultural landmarks and historical artefacts, including the notorious Headington Shark. With close links to London and Birmingham and the picturesque Cotswolds within easy reach, Oxford offers that escape-from-the-city atmosphere without compromising on availability to the big city attractions.
Our pharmacy team pride themselves on delivering excellent and compassionate care, acting with integrity and respect, for the benefit of patients within the trust. Our leadership team align to the Trusts Divisional and Directorate structure and includes eight consultant pharmacists across various specialities. We focus on delivering the best clinical training and opportunity for learning, while simultaneously striving to improve pharmaceutical services.
Direct Patient Care
1. Deliver compassionate excellence via a patient focused clinical pharmacy service, in accordance with national medicines optimisation principles and local clinical pharmacy procedures.
2. Analyse prescriptions, alongside technical resources, patient records and information from patient consults to form an opinion on the most appropriate course of action.
3. Accurately and sensitively communicate medicines related information to a variety of healthcare professionals and patients including those with language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities, in a way that facilitates shared decision making.
4. Optimise transfer of patient care, though timely completion of medicines reconciliation and communication with GPs and community pharmacy teams.
5. Participate in and promote antimicrobial stewardship, medicines safety, and medicines effectiveness initiatives.
6. Support others with highly specialised advice and guidance on patient management in areas where evidence base is lacking or opinions are conflicting.
7. Demonstrate an advanced level of clinical reasoning and judement.
8. Train to become a NMP and when registered with the GPhC and the OUH, prescribe within the Trust’s policy for Non-medical Prescribing.
9. Within your own area of specialism independently manage patients, this may be via case referrals, outpatient or ambulatory review, or as part of a multidisciplinary ward round or MDT meeting.
10. Support medicines optimisation for patients within the specialism across a whole system e.g. primary to secondary care within the ICB, or across a wider geography where teriary services are provided.
11. Support OUH dispensaries, and liaise with external agencies (Such as aseptic production services or homecare providers) to ensure safe, timely and appropriate supply of medications to patients.
12. Take responsibility for the assessment of financial and clinical risk of use of unlicensed medicines, balancing this with the clinical situation posed.
Supporting Professional Activities
Leadership and Management
1. Act as a role model for pharmacy within the Trust, demonstrating the GPhC Standards for Pharmacy Professionals and our Trust values.
2. Be recongised as an ICB, regional, National or international expert within your specialist field.
3. Support and promote the Trusts equality, diversity and inclusion principles.
4. Plan and organise your own workload in alignment with professional and organisational priorities. Support others to do the same. Delegate and escalate appropriately.
5. Accept professional accountability for all actions and advice.
6. Report any unexpected or untoward events via the Trusts incident reporting system
7. Lead, manage, motivate and develop pharmacy staff within your team.
8. Line manage all designated staff in line with the Trust’s HR policies and procedures, providing annual appraisal
9. Participate in annual job planning and complete this for those you line manage.
10. Lead on the recruitment, deployment and retention of colleagues within the Directorate.
11. Plan and authorise rosters for your team, managing planned and unplanned leave as well as adhoc cover.
12. Ensure a high quality, responsive, patient focussed clinical pharmacy service is provided by clinical pharmacists and ward-based technicians and assistants to all agreed areas within the Directorate.
13. Actively promote the clinical pharmacy service and share achievements locally, regionally and nationally.
14. Use experience and clinical judgement to assist in problem-solving and trouble-shooting within the clinical service and Pharmacy department.
15. Ensure appropriate representation from your directorate at relevant Pharmacy directorate meetings as appropriate e.g. Home Care User Group, High Cost Medicines Group, Pharmacy Systems Optimisation, Governance,
16. Ensure effective communication within the directorate pharmacy team, to the wider Pharmacy directorate and with your Divisional and Directorate leadership teams.
17. Contiribute to the development and delivery of of Pharmacy Clinical Team Key Performance Indicators.
18. Provide advice and guidance to the directorate on all aspects of medicines optimisation.
19. Ensure compliance with medicines legislation and Trust policies and procedures.
20. Anticipate and respond to clinical and business needs of the directorate.
21. Contribute to business cases, identify and advise on any impact to the clinical and operational aspects of pharmacy services.
22. Consider the environmental impact of changes, and work to reduce the carbon footprint from medicines use within the directorate.
23. Support investigation and resolution of medication related incidents and complaints in the directorate.
24. Support your teams in developing, implementing and monitoring Medicines Management policies and procedures, including MILs and injectable monographs.
25. Be responsible for the interpretation and dissemination of drug usage and costs data to the directorate to support management of the drug budget.
26. Support the introduction of new medicines to the directorate, by contributing to submissions to the Medicines Management and Therapeutics Committee (MMTC), Area Prescribing Committee, and Thames Valley Priorities Committee.
27. In appropriate situations deputise for the Divisional Lead Pharmacist or Associate Director of Pharmacy (Clinical Services) as required
28. Take on any additional specific roles as agreed with the Divisional Lead Pharmacist, in the process of one to ones, appraisal or job planning.
29. Take on any additional specific roles as agreed with the Associate Director of Pharmacy (Clinical Services) or Clinical Director for Pharmacy and Sterile Services, on behalf of the Directorate, Division, or Trust.
This advert closes on Sunday 29 Sep 2024
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