Advanced Pharmacist Medicines Safety | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent teaching hospital in the UK is seeking an experienced professional to join its medicines safety team. The role involves leadership in optimising smart infusion pump technology and supporting the safe use of injectable medicines across the trust. This position offers a unique opportunity to expand your skillset in a multidisciplinary environment while contributing to the enhancement of patient safety. Applicants should have a pharmacy background and a keen interest in healthcare innovation and quality improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience in optimising the safe use of medicines in a clinical environment.
• Ability to engage multidisciplinary teams in health safety agendas.
• Experience in research and quality improvement methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Promote the safe use of injectable medicines and drug-error reduction software.
• Identify medication risks and implement risk reduction measures.
• Engage clinical teams in the implementation of smart infusion pump technology.

Skills

Leadership in healthcare

Knowledge of smart infusion pumps

Pharmaceutical care

Education

Pharmacy degree

Job description

In this post, you will be a key member of the medicines safety team, involved in dynamic workstreams focused on optimising and improving the safe use of medicines throughout the trust.

This role provides an opportunity to take a leadership role in the injectable safety workstream within the Medicines Safety team. The postholder will be involved in implementing and optimising smart infusion pump technology across the trust. This includes designing and implementing drug‑error reduction software, namely interpreting a range of resources to define clinical dosing parameters for drugs administered using smart infusion pumps in a range of clinical areas.

The role provides an opportunity to expand your expertise and skillset, to 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 maintain high standards of pharmaceutical care, ensure timely, effective communication with both the multi‑disciplinary clinical teams and collaborators.

The main duties of the job are active involvement in implementing and optimising smart infusion pump technology across the Trust, learning from incidents and risks, measuring and monitoring safety to ensure the safest use of medicines, optimising processes and systems and engaging all staff in the medicine safety agenda.

OUHNHSFT is part of the acclaimed Shelford Group and is one of the largest teaching trusts in the UK. Our pharmacy department contains around 400 multidisciplinary healthcare staff.

The medicines safety team is a multi‑disciplinary team who aim to promote the safe use of medicines across the trust to improve safety for all our patients and help equip staff with the knowledge and expertise they need to use medicines safely.

Main responsibilities

1. To promote the safe use of injectable medicines in accordance with guidance and evidence based best practice, to support the implementation of drug‑error reduction software across the Trust.
2. To work with corporate and divisional colleagues to ensure medication risks are identified as part of the dose error reduction software infusion pump project. To assess risks and ensure risk reduction measures are put in place and monitored.
3. To promote a multidisciplinary approach to implementation and optimisation of smart infusion pump technology.
4. To promote learning and sharing of experiences in risk reduction and improvement methodologies in relation to infusion pump technology.
5. To participate in audit, research and quality improvement to support medicines safety.
6. To use innovation to support effective patient outcomes, experience, improve cost effectiveness and in particular to support safety improvement.

This advert closes on Tuesday 30 Dec 2025.