Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Are you recently qualified or a pharmacist wanting to take their 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 a variety of different specialties and to continuously build both your confidence and knowledge base through formal and informal learning. Typically, rotations are 6 months in duration, they span across sites and include both medical and surgical clinical specialties. It will include taking responsibility and using initiative in managing your own workload blended with being a team player and knowing your limitations and asking for help and support as needed. You will be encouraged and supported in undertaking leadership tasks and to be involved in quality improvement and service development.
Main duties of the job
To contribute to our clinical pharmacy service supporting a variety of medical and surgical wards, delivering compassionate excellence in this patient facing role. You will be supported to complete post-graduate training, with support from supervisors and tutors.
About us
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 - 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.
Job responsibilities
MAIN TASK AND 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 and communicate 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 including those with language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities.
7. Plan and organise your own workload in alignment with professional and organisational priorities.
8. Delegate and escalate appropriately.
9. Support compliance with medicines related legislative and regulatory requirements, including maintaining the security and quality of medicines stock.
10. Undertake Audits and Quality Improvement Projects to support our culture of continuous improvement.
11. Report any unexpected or untoward events via the Trust's incident reporting system.
12. Where relevant to a rotation complete training in clinical trials and support the supply of investigational medicinal products.
13. Undertake a program of study leading to a Postgraduate Clinical Diploma.
14. Support the training and mentoring of our trainee pharmacists and technicians, as well as colleagues who are new to the Trust.
15. Participate in unsociable hours weekend and bank holiday working according to the service needs.
16. Any other reasonable duties as requested by the Clinical Director of Pharmacy, or Associate Director of Pharmacy Clinical Service.
Essential criteria
1. Masters Degree (4 year MPharm or equivalent) in Pharmacy.
2. Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
3. Ability to travel to all sites including the use of public transport.
4. Application of pharmacy knowledge to benefit patient care.
5. Working with other health care professionals.
6. Service improvement.
7. Patient consultations.
Person Specification
Qualifications
1. Masters Degree (4 year MPharm or equivalent) in Pharmacy.
2. Currently registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
3. Ability to travel to all sites including the use of public transport.
4. Application of pharmacy knowledge to benefit patient care.
5. Working with other health care professionals.
6. Service improvement.
7. Patient consultations.
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.
Lead Pharmacist E&T post registration training
£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum pro rata
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