Pharmacy Manager

Nuffield Health; Oxford; On-site; GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is looking for a proactive Pharmacy Manager to lead a dedicated team at a modern hospital in Oxford. This role involves ensuring the highest standards of pharmaceutical care, overseeing medication management, and leading a team to deliver exceptional service across various departments. With a focus on patient safety and quality, you will play a vital role in optimizing clinical practices and enhancing the overall healthcare experience. Join a supportive environment that values your contributions and offers a range of benefits, including a generous relocation package, to help you thrive in your career.

Benefits

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council and experience as a Pharmacist required.
• Leadership experience in a Pharmacy setting is essential.

Responsibilities

• Ensure adherence to medicines optimisation policies and oversee pharmaceutical stock procurement.
• Lead and manage the pharmacy team, providing high-quality clinical care.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Pharmacy Knowledge

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Decision Making

Education

Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Experience in a clinical setting as a Pharmacist

Job description

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time left to apply End Date: May 20, 2025 (25 days left to apply)

job requisition id JR0082013

Pharmacy Manager

Nuffield Health Oxford, The Manor Hospital | Pharmacy | Permanent Contract | Full Time

Up to £60,000 per annum, depending on experience *

* We are happy to accommodate applications from outside Oxford and can offer a generous relocation package

37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health, the UK’s largest healthcare charity, everything we give our patients, members, and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your warmth, your drive to make a difference. Whether it’s driving connected health, helping the nation, transforming experiences, or building the career you want – we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.

Our Nuffield Health The Manor Hospital is seeking an enthusiastic and proactive Pharmacy Manager to join the team.

Duties will include:

1. Ensuring adherence to medicines optimisation policies and procedures.
2. Providing oversight of pharmaceutical stock procurement.
3. Delivering high-quality clinical care and advice to our patients and teams across a range of departments including ICU/HDU, the Pre-assessment clinic, Outpatient Department, Ward, Theatres, and Oncology Team.

The opportunity

You will have excellent communication and organisational skills; the ability to work under pressure and influence others whilst always maintaining a professional attitude. As a Pharmacy Manager, it is important that you are confident to work independently as well as a member of our larger health professional community, leading a team to always strive to improve the quality of our services for our patients.

As a Pharmacy Manager, you will:

1. Provide leadership and advice on medicines management to ensure that processes across all clinical departments throughout the hospital are safe, cost-effective, and legal, supported by up-to-date policies, procedures, and guidelines.
2. Be responsible for leading, motivating, and effectively managing the pharmacy team by providing excellent leadership.
3. As the Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead, optimise the management of antimicrobials to minimise the occurrence of hospital-acquired infections.
4. Ensure the pharmacy team undertake daily ward rounds reconciling medication for new inpatients; counselling patients; managing PODs and checking for relevant allergies, adverse drug reactions, and contra-indications to treatment.
5. Assist and lead the team in facilitating timely and informed discharge of patients returning to primary care.
6. Lead on the implementation of medication safety alerts and drug recalls for the hospital.
7. Implement and monitor DoH guidance on all aspects of controlled drugs use in the hospital.
8. Ensure errors, complaints, and incidents are managed in line with the Nuffield Health guidelines.
9. Support the development of other healthcare professionals and deliver medicines-focused training upon request.

As a Pharmacy Manager, you will have:

1. Be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
2. Experience of working in a clinical setting as a Pharmacist is essential.
3. Leadership/managerial experience in a Pharmacy setting.
4. An awareness and knowledge of Oncology Pharmacy.
5. Share evidence-based practices with colleagues to enhance service and standards.
6. The ability to make decisions and use your initiative.
7. Passion to deliver excellent care in a rewarding and what can be an emotionally challenging environment.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy, and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health, and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts, and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Nuffield Health Oxford

Our modern hospital is based within a stone’s throw of the historic City of Oxford, a world-renowned centre of excellence for surgical and medical expertise. We are proud of the wonderful environment and team we have established, providing our patients with first-class care.

We cater for inpatient and day care, providing a broad range of surgical specialties and clinics including Paediatrics, Oncology, Interventional Cardiology & Radiology, Orthopaedics, Endoscopy, Gynaecology, Urology, Ophthalmology as well as women’s and men’s health clinics.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

Applications will be considered as they are received, and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Therefore, please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post.

It starts with you.

About Us

Nuffield Health is the UK’s largest healthcare charity. For over 60 years, we’ve been working to make the UK fitter, healthier, happier, and stronger. All for the public benefit.

We do this through our family of 31 award-winning hospitals, 113 fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics, and over 100 workplace wellbeing services.

As a charity, we invest all our income back into our services, into pioneering improvements in care, and most importantly, we invest into our flagship programmes, which have been developed to help people who could normally afford or access our services.

It’s all part of our mission to give everyone the care they need and to build a healthier nation.