Job summary
Are you a keen surgical pharmacist or looking to progress your career in surgical pharmacy? Then this may be the post for you. We are looking for a pharmacist to lead the services to our Surgical Emergency Unit. This is a lively and busy unit seeing 15,000 patients per year and rising.
Our pharmacy department at Oxford University Hospitals is progressive and pioneering and we are looking for an intuitive, enthusiastic, versatile pharmacist to join our team.
Main duties of the job
The ideal candidate will be a pharmacist with relevant experience in a surgical setting with an ability to balance the day to day with building and future proofing a service. They will be able to develop and adapt the pharmacy service to balance the needs of the unit and the pharmacy department.
Our Trust Quality priorities this year are reducing medicines harm from opiates and insulin, both of which are used extensively across the Emergency Surgery Unit and so there will be opportunity to join up with these work streams and implement ideas at a local level.
Interviews to be held 2 weeks after closing.
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. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
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. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a job share with the existing Surgical Emergency Unit Lead Pharmacist (0.4 WTE).
This is a key role within the surgical directorate leading the Pharmacy services on the Surgical Emergency Unit. The post-holder will be an active member of both the Pharmacy and Sterile Services and the Surgery directorates, to ensure continuous two-way exchange of information and maintain high standards of medicines use within the Trust.
- To support and deputise for the Divisional Lead Pharmacist in the provision of a safe, effective and efficient clinical pharmacy service to one or more Directorates, in accordance with local and national standards and strategy.
- To have delegated responsibility for specific aspects of the service as agreed with the Divisional Lead Pharmacist and Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager. This will include roles common to all highly specialised clinical pharmacists e.g. antimicrobial and/or wound care link.
- To provide a clinical pharmacy service to Surgical Emergency Unit.
- To promote and ensure the safe and effective use of medicines within the directorate to achieve high standards of medicines related aspects of patient care.
- To encourage the cost effective use of medicines and to improve the quality of pharmaceutical care for patients.
- To provide specialised professional and technical education to enable the clinical units to meet high standards of patient care and safety.
- To lead and manage the provision of all ward based clinical pharmacy services to the Surgical Emergency Unit.
- To establish and further develop key clinical pharmacy skills for the management of patients in the Surgical Emergency Unit.
- To establish and provide a near patient dispensing service for the surgical emergency unit ward improving patient medicines education, discharge turnaround and cost effective use of medicines.
- To develop a good working relationship and communications with clinical and managerial staff in the surgical directorate and provide a link regarding all aspects of Pharmacy service and medicines management. To attend clinical unit & directorate board meetings as appropriate.
- To be involved in the strategic development of the clinical pharmacy service to the surgical directorate in line with local and national strategy and standards and develop extended roles for pharmacists and technicians to improve the effectiveness of the service.
- To ensure all staff in the surgical emergency unit clinical pharmacy team are appraised annually in line with OUH policy, have objectives and personal development plan and participate in Continuous Professional Development., including competency frameworks as appropriate.
- To lead on ward-based clinical audits and the development, implementation and monitoring of protocols for medicines usage in response to clinical and business needs of the Trust and directorate and that these are integrated across the Trust as appropriate.
- To contribute to and implement the clinical governance plans of Surgical Emergency Unit and the pharmacy clinical governance plans.
- To contribute to development and implementation of Patient Group Directions, Non-Medical Prescribing and other extended prescribing, supply and administration of medicines functions within the surgical emergency unit and collaborate with other pharmacist team managers and other clinicians to ensure Trust wide collaboration.
- To contribute to business case development in the surgical emergency unit to ensure any impact on the clinical and operational aspects of pharmacy services are fully identified and resourced.
- To ensure contribution from the clinical pharmacy team to the production of medicines information leaflets (MILs) relevant to the Surgical Emergency Unit and more widely.
- To ensure analysis of drug usage trends to identify and implement cost improvement initiatives and to play a significant role with the Directorate Manager and senior clinical staff in managing the medicines budget for the Directorate.
- To support the managed introduction of new medicines to the unit, supporting clinicians in making submissions to the Medicines Management and Therapeutics Committee (MMTC) to support the directorate finance manager in securing funding before usage.
- To ensure a patient-focused approach to medicines management within the unit and that patients are provided with appropriate verbal and written information about their medicines.
- To work with the Education and Training Lead Pharmacist to ensure the organisation of training for foundation trainee pharmacists and junior pharmacists during their rotation to the unit.
- To work with other Pharmacist Divisional Leads and Pharmacy Operational Managers to ensure cover for sickness, vacancies and leave of any type across all sites.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a job share with the existing Surgical Emergency Unit Lead Pharmacist (0.4 WTE).
This is a key role within the surgical directorate leading the Pharmacy services on the Surgical Emergency Unit. The post-holder will be an active member of both the Pharmacy and Sterile Services and the Surgery directorates, to ensure continuous two-way exchange of information and maintain high standards of medicines use within the Trust.
- To support and deputise for the Divisional Lead Pharmacist in the provision of a safe, effective and efficient clinical pharmacy service to one or more Directorates, in accordance with local and national standards and strategy.
- To have delegated responsibility for specific aspects of the service as agreed with the Divisional Lead Pharmacist and Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager. This will include roles common to all highly specialised clinical pharmacists e.g. antimicrobial and/or wound care link.
- To provide a clinical pharmacy service to Surgical Emergency Unit.
- To promote and ensure the safe and effective use of medicines within the directorate to achieve high standards of medicines related aspects of patient care.
- To encourage the cost effective use of medicines and to improve the quality of pharmaceutical care for patients.
- To provide specialised professional and technical education to enable the clinical units to meet high standards of patient care and safety.
- To lead and manage the provision of all ward based clinical pharmacy services to the Surgical Emergency Unit.
- To establish and further develop key clinical pharmacy skills for the management of patients in the Surgical Emergency Unit.
- To establish and provide a near patient dispensing service for the surgical emergency unit ward improving patient medicines education, discharge turnaround and cost effective use of medicines.
- To develop a good working relationship and communications with clinical and managerial staff in the surgical directorate and provide a link regarding all aspects of Pharmacy service and medicines management. To attend clinical unit & directorate board meetings as appropriate.
- To be involved in the strategic development of the clinical pharmacy service to the surgical directorate in line with local and national strategy and standards and develop extended roles for pharmacists and technicians to improve the effectiveness of the service.
- To ensure all staff in the surgical emergency unit clinical pharmacy team are appraised annually in line with OUH policy, have objectives and personal development plan and participate in Continuous Professional Development., including competency frameworks as appropriate.
- To lead on ward-based clinical audits and the development, implementation and monitoring of protocols for medicines usage in response to clinical and business needs of the Trust and directorate and that these are integrated across the Trust as appropriate.
- To contribute to and implement the clinical governance plans of Surgical Emergency Unit and the pharmacy clinical governance plans.
- To contribute to development and implementation of Patient Group Directions, Non-Medical Prescribing and other extended prescribing, supply and administration of medicines functions within the surgical emergency unit and collaborate with other pharmacist team managers and other clinicians to ensure Trust wide collaboration.
- To contribute to business case development in the surgical emergency unit to ensure any impact on the clinical and operational aspects of pharmacy services are fully identified and resourced.
- To ensure contribution from the clinical pharmacy team to the production of medicines information leaflets (MILs) relevant to the Surgical Emergency Unit and more widely.
- To ensure analysis of drug usage trends to identify and implement cost improvement initiatives and to play a significant role with the Directorate Manager and senior clinical staff in managing the medicines budget for the Directorate.
- To support the managed introduction of new medicines to the unit, supporting clinicians in making submissions to the Medicines Management and Therapeutics Committee (MMTC) to support the directorate finance manager in securing funding before usage.
- To ensure a patient-focused approach to medicines management within the unit and that patients are provided with appropriate verbal and written information about their medicines.
- To work with the Education and Training Lead Pharmacist to ensure the organisation of training for foundation trainee pharmacists and junior pharmacists during their rotation to the unit.
- To work with other Pharmacist Divisional Leads and Pharmacy Operational Managers to ensure cover for sickness, vacancies and leave of any type across all sites.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified to masters degree level (MPharm or equivalent)
- Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Post graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
- Independent prescriber or working towards this
- Leadership qualification or training, or working towards this
Desirable
- MSc in clinical pharmacy or equivalent further post graduate qualification
- Teaching qualification
- Coaching qualification
- RPS Credentialing
- Human Factors Training
Technical skills
Essential
- Working knowledge of Office 365
Desirable
- Experience with Cerner Millenium
- Experience with Ulysses incident reporting
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified to masters degree level (MPharm or equivalent)
- Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Post graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
- Independent prescriber or working towards this
- Leadership qualification or training, or working towards this
Desirable
- MSc in clinical pharmacy or equivalent further post graduate qualification
- Teaching qualification
- Coaching qualification
- RPS Credentialing
- Human Factors Training
Technical skills
Essential
- Working knowledge of Office 365
Desirable
- Experience with Cerner Millenium
- Experience with Ulysses incident reporting
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
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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).
