Job summary
If you are keen to further develop your skills learnt as a foundation pharmacist, we may have the perfect opportunity for you to join our team of surgical pharmacists. By applying for this job you will have the opportunity to join the progressive and pioneering pharmacy department at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for intuitive, enthusiastic and versatile pharmacists to join our diverse and inclusive team.
The team offers you:
o Experience across hospital sites and general surgical specialties, allowing you to become integrated in our surgical service
o The opportunity to undertake prescribing courses and prior completion of a postgraduate clinical diploma.
o The chance to take on leadership/mentoring responsibilities such as trainee pharmacist tutor or postgraduate clinical pharmacy tutor.
o The required skills to develop your clinical and non-clinical pharmacy skills within the RPS Advanced Pharmacist Framework.
Interviews likely to be 2 weeks after closing
Main duties of the job
Building on your foundation knowledge, experience and skills, you will be working in a dynamic and rewarding setting to deliver compassionate excellence. As a specialist pharmacist in general surgery you will grow in all four pillars of practice in order to prepare for an advanced practice role.
In this post you will be a specialist pharmacist across our surgical units at OUH. This includes emergency surgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital and the surgical specialities at the Churchill Hospital. You will gain experience in a number of areas including:
Emergency/acute surgery
Breast surgery
Colorectal surgery (including patients with inflammatory bowel disease and malignant conditions)
Oesophagogastric, hepatobiliary and endocrine surgery
Colorectal enhanced care unit
Emergency surgery ambulatory unit
This post will give you an opportunity to expand your expertise and skillset, mentor others, be involved in service development or research and to put your management and leadership skills into action in a supportive setting. The post holder should ensure timely, effective, two-way exchange of information between the pharmacy teams and the clinical area as well as maintaining high standards of medicines management.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis 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 thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand 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. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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. Where relevant to a rotation complete training in clinical trials and support the supply of investigational medicinal products.
7. Where a scope of practice has been identified within a rotation, train to become a NMP and when registered with the GPhC and the OUH to prescribe within the Trusts policy for Non-medical Prescribing.
8. 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.
Supporting Professional Activities
9. Complete a local induction programme, including core training and maintain core skills throughout employment.
10. Act as a role model for pharmacy within the Trust, demonstrating the GPhC Standards for Pharmacy Professionals and our Trust values.
11. Support and promote the Trusts equality, diversity and inclusion principles and our sustainability model.
12. Plan and organise your own workload in alignment with professional and organisational priorities.
13. Delegate and escalate appropriately.
14. Report any unexpected or untoward events via the Trusts incident reporting system.
15. Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team, and the support of your team lead, in developing the pharmacy service in line with the department and Trust strategies in response to changing service needs
16. Support compliance with medicines related legislative and regulatory requirements, including maintaining the security and quality of medicines stock and be able to develop an action plan for improvements in a designated area.
17. Support the development and implementation of treatment protocols and guidelines for use of medicines within the clinical area
18. Contribute to and implement the clinical governance plans of the clinical area and the pharmacy clinical governance plans.
19. Participate in, support and lead on Audits, Service evaluation and Quality/Cost Improvement Projects that align to our strategy and support our culture of continuous improvement.
20. Provide specialised professional and technical education at a professional or under-graduate level and at a level that patient/carers can understand in both inpatient and outpatient clinical environments across the primary and secondary care settings.
21. Tutor and support the training of trainee foundation pharmacists and technicians.
22. Any other reasonable duties as requested by the Clinical Director of Pharmacy, or Associate Director of Pharmacy Clinical Servic
Job description
Job responsibilities
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. Where relevant to a rotation complete training in clinical trials and support the supply of investigational medicinal products.
7. Where a scope of practice has been identified within a rotation, train to become a NMP and when registered with the GPhC and the OUH to prescribe within the Trusts policy for Non-medical Prescribing.
8. 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.
Supporting Professional Activities
9. Complete a local induction programme, including core training and maintain core skills throughout employment.
10. Act as a role model for pharmacy within the Trust, demonstrating the GPhC Standards for Pharmacy Professionals and our Trust values.
11. Support and promote the Trusts equality, diversity and inclusion principles and our sustainability model.
12. Plan and organise your own workload in alignment with professional and organisational priorities.
13. Delegate and escalate appropriately.
14. Report any unexpected or untoward events via the Trusts incident reporting system.
15. Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team, and the support of your team lead, in developing the pharmacy service in line with the department and Trust strategies in response to changing service needs
16. Support compliance with medicines related legislative and regulatory requirements, including maintaining the security and quality of medicines stock and be able to develop an action plan for improvements in a designated area.
17. Support the development and implementation of treatment protocols and guidelines for use of medicines within the clinical area
18. Contribute to and implement the clinical governance plans of the clinical area and the pharmacy clinical governance plans.
19. Participate in, support and lead on Audits, Service evaluation and Quality/Cost Improvement Projects that align to our strategy and support our culture of continuous improvement.
20. Provide specialised professional and technical education at a professional or under-graduate level and at a level that patient/carers can understand in both inpatient and outpatient clinical environments across the primary and secondary care settings.
21. Tutor and support the training of trainee foundation pharmacists and technicians.
22. Any other reasonable duties as requested by the Clinical Director of Pharmacy, or Associate Director of Pharmacy Clinical Servic
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Masters Pharmacy Degree (MPharm or equivalent)
- Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Post Graduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice and due to complete the diploma, or equivalent external credentialling via CPPE/ RPS
Desirable
- Hospital experience in more than one setting or clinical area
- Independent prescriber
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Masters Pharmacy Degree (MPharm or equivalent)
- Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Post Graduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice and due to complete the diploma, or equivalent external credentialling via CPPE/ RPS
Desirable
- Hospital experience in more than one setting or clinical area
- Independent prescriber
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Headley Way
Oxford
OX3 9DU
Employer's website
https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
