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Neurosciences Advanced Clinical Pharmacist, Oxford
Client: Oxford University Hospitals
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: fc7717cc704b
Job Views: 3
Posted: 26.03.2025
Expiry Date: 10.05.2025
Job Description:
Job overview
A unique opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to join the Neurosciences Team, based at the John Radcliffe Hospital site.
The Oxford Neurosciences Tertiary Referral Centre provides world-class comprehensive care for neurology and neurosurgery patients within Oxfordshire, surrounding areas and beyond.
The post holder will be part of a well-established, friendly neurosciences pharmacy team.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will:
1. Be or become a knowledge expert in clinical pharmacy relating to Neurosciences including prescribing, screening, advising, and optimising medicines use in the area.
2. Promote, monitor, and improve the safe and cost-effective use of medicines within neurosciences through regular communication, budgetary reports, and feedback to the directorate.
3. Develop and lead the pharmacy service to Neurosciences.
4. Routinely review, update, or develop Neurosciences medicines related guidelines.
5. Provide pharmaceutical advice to patients, carers, or specialists.
6. Have delegated responsibility for specific aspects of the neurosciences pharmacy service as agreed with the Directorate Pharmacist and attend Directorate executive or Governance meetings.
7. Support and deputise for the Directorate Pharmacist in the provision of a safe, effective, and efficient clinical pharmacy service to the neurosciences directorate, in accordance with local and national standards and strategy.
8. Champion the needs of neurosciences patients in relevant forums for pharmacy governance.
9. Provide specialised professional and technical education and training to enable the clinical units to meet high standards of patient care and safety.
10. Support and mentor junior pharmacists in the neurosciences pharmacy team, ensuring they have education and training relevant to their development, regular one-to-ones, and appraisals.
Working for our organisation
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.
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