Employer: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: John Radcliffe
Town: Oxford
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 01/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 09/01/2025
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.
This role offers the opportunity to apply your pharmaceutical knowledge across different 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 sites and including both medical and surgical clinical specialties. 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
MAIN TASK AND RESPONSIBILITIES
* Complete a local induction programme including core training, and maintain core skills throughout employment.
* Act as a role model for pharmacy within the Trust, demonstrating Pharmacy Professional Standards and our Trust values.
* Deliver compassionate excellence via a patient-focused clinical pharmacy service, in accordance with national medicines optimisation principles and local clinical pharmacy procedures.
* 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.
* Participate in and promote antimicrobial stewardship activities.
* Accurately and sensitively communicate medicines-related information to a variety of healthcare professionals and patients, including those with language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities.
* Plan and organise your own workload in alignment with professional and organisational priorities.
* Delegate and escalate appropriately.
* Support compliance with medicines-related legislative and regulatory requirements, including maintaining the security and quality of medicines stock.
* Undertake audits and quality improvement projects to support our culture of continuous improvement.
* Report any unexpected or untoward events via the Trust's incident reporting system.
* Where relevant to a rotation, complete training in clinical trials and support the supply of investigational medicinal products.
* Undertake a program of study leading to a Postgraduate Clinical Diploma.
* Support the training and mentoring of our trainee pharmacists and technicians, as well as colleagues who are new to the Trust.
* Participate in unsociable hours, weekend, and bank holiday working according to service needs.
* Any other reasonable duties as requested by the Clinical Director of Pharmacy or Associate Director of Pharmacy – Clinical Service.
Minimum Requirements
* Masters Degree (4 year MPharm or equivalent) in Pharmacy.
* 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.
* Experience working with other health care professionals.
* Service improvement experience.
* Experience in patient consultations.
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.
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. Candidates selected for interview will be contacted after the short-listing process, usually within 2 weeks.
No unsolicited recruitment agency telephone calls or emails.
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