Advanced Pharmacist - Theatres

NHS; Oxford; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS teaching trust in the UK is seeking an Advanced Pharmacist for Theatres to manage medicines use within perioperative care. This role offers a dynamic and rewarding working environment with opportunities for career progression. The successful candidate will demonstrate expert knowledge in clinical pharmacy, provide specialist advice, and support junior pharmacists. The position promises a full-time, permanent contract, with a competitive salary ranging from £55,690 to £62,682. Embrace the opportunity to work in a supportive and innovative setting.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Compressed hours

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Post‑graduate clinical diploma.
• Leadership qualification or training.
• Broad clinical pharmacy provision in a number of different clinical areas or sectors.
• Experience working across organisational boundaries.
• Line management experience.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate expert knowledge in clinical pharmacy relating to theatres.
• Lead safe medicines management across theatre departments.
• Provide specialist pharmaceutical advice to patients and clinicians.
• Support relevant directorate pharmacists in clinical services.
• Act as a link between theatres and anesthetics directorates.
• Provide education and training to clinical units.
• Support and mentor junior pharmacists.
• Contribute to workforce strategy for quality standards.

Job description

Advanced Pharmacist - Theatres

The closing date is 30 December 2025

We are looking for an intuitive, enthusiastic and versatile pharmacist to join our diverse and inclusive team. Are you experienced in medicines management in theatres or medicines use in the perioperative period? Then this may be the job for you.

OUH is building a brand new Surgical Elective Centre on our John Radcliffe site. This building will house additional operating theatres to address waiting lists for complex elective surgery across the IIS. Due to the new build, we are looking for an advanced pharmacist for theatres to join the team. Within the 1st phase of the new build there are 7 theatres, in addition to those across the wider NOTSSCaN division.

Why do our staff like working here?

• Dynamic and rewarding setting
• Vast range of specialities with interesting patients with high levels of complexity
• Always something new, innovative and exciting happening - new cutting edge treatments and technologies
• Large group of supportive peers from diverse backgrounds
• Supportive department, with great learning and development opportunities
• Good career progression options to consultant level
• Pharmacists seen as valued members of the MDT who add positive contributions to patient care
• Working in teams with Consultant Pharmacists who are leading in their areas of specialisation nationally

Main duties of the job

This is a key role within the pharmacy team delivering services across the NOTSSCaN Theatres departments.

• Demonstrate or acquire expert knowledge in clinical pharmacy relating to theatres and peri-operative care, including prescribing, screening, advising and optimising medicines use in the area.
• Lead the establishment of safe & secure medicines management across the directorate's theatre departments in close cooperation with senior nurses/ theatre managers and key clinicians.
• Provide specialist pharmaceutical advice to patients, carers, or clinicians.
• Support and deputise for the relevant directorate pharmacists in the provision of a safe, effective, and efficient clinical pharmacy service in accordance with local and national standards and strategy.
• Act as a link between the theatres and anesthetics directorates and their relevant directorate pharmacists and directorate teams.
• Provide specialised professional and technical education and training to enable the clinical units to meet high standards of patient care and safety.
• Support and mentor junior pharmacists or technical pharmacy staff within the team.
• Contribute to workforce strategy to ensure the team make the best use of resource to meet quality standards and operational demand.

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, 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. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Person Specification

Experience and Qualifications

• Post‑graduate clinical diploma
• Leadership qualification or training
• Broad clinical pharmacy provision in a number of different clinical areas or sectors
• Working across organisational boundaries
• Line management

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.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£55,690 to £62,682 a yearPer annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours