Resident Pharmacist

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Do you want to kickstart your pharmacy career? Are you looking for a role to grow your clinical expertise every day? If so, this is a golden opportunity for registered pharmacists and current trainee pharmacists to apply to join an exceptional resident pharmacist team.

We have a reputation of excellence in our pharmacy team and the quality of the service we provide. We will support your wellbeing and development as a pharmacist and offer many opportunities for you to flourish in a dynamic and enthusiastic team. We encourage and inspire your learning and progression, with many resident pharmacists continuing their career within OUH.

Pharmacy provides a comprehensive range of pharmaceutical services and extended clinical roles to many clinical areas, including tertiary specialities.

We work closely with our clinical colleagues, including our eight consultant pharmacists, meaning you will have the best possible platform to develop your skills and knowledge and be a part of a Trust providing world-class clinical care.

Our rotations are located on all the four main sites and most of your time will be spent in clinical areas, engaging with patients and colleagues.

Additional benefits include paid study leave and course fees to undertake a Clinical Diploma, and the opportunity to complete your independent prescribing qualification as part of the third year of your diploma.

If this sounds appealing, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

The Pharmacy Residency programme offers:

• Experience across multiple specialities and hospital sites allowing you to develop a wide experience for your clinical pharmacy portfolio, with the opportunity to complete nine four-month rotations in areas such as:

Medicine, Surgery, Stroke, Medicines Information, Intensive Care, Orthopaedics, Neurology, Paediatrics, Renal, Infectious Diseases, Gastroenterology, and Cancer.

• A postgraduate clinical diploma with Cardiff University
• Experience leading the dispensary during out-of-hours services.
• Working as part of the Hospital at Night team proactively reviewing patients requiring medicines optimisation.
• Three years of varied shift work to challenge and stretch you to become an expert at prioritisation and organisation.
• Growth opportunity, after completing two years of shift work and your postgraduate certificate you will be eligible to progress to a band 7 position.

Join a team of friendly resident pharmacists who work collaboratively and are responsible for providing the Trust's out-of-hours Pharmacy service. This is achieved by working varied shift patterns across weekends and weekdays, alongside a variety of clinical rotations. A fantastic amount of peer support is provided by working within such a close-knit team of like-minded individuals. There is an experienced team of senior-on-call pharmacists who provide support throughout the night for calls which need senior advice.

About us

As one of the largest teaching trusts in the UK, our pharmacy department works across 4 different sites. By joining the resident team, you will have the opportunity to work across all sites with people from different cultures and backgrounds. Our pharmacy team pride themselves on delivering excellent and compassionate care, acting with integrity and respect, for the benefit of patients within the trust. Within the department, there are eight consultant pharmacists across various specialities, who offer expertise and guidance to all aspiring clinical pharmacists. We focus on delivering the best clinical training and opportunity for learning while simultaneously striving to improve pharmaceutical services.

Oxford, the "city of dreaming spires" is world-renowned and contains the oldest university in the English-speaking world. It has a variety of famous monuments and buildings, cultural landmarks, and historical artefacts, including the notorious Headington Shark. With close links to London and Birmingham and the picturesque Cotswolds within easy reach, Oxford offers that escape-from-the-city atmosphere without compromising on availability to the big city attractions.

Job responsibilities

• To participate in the out of hours resident pharmacist rota, to all the Oxford University Hospitals. Service provision is also provided to other contracted organisations. The rota covers weekdays, weekends, and bank holidays. This involves working late and night shift patterns. The out of hours service is supported by a senior pharmacist on call from home via a radio page.
• To record all out of hours calls on the on call records database in order to provide a measure of service use, to allow peer review, clinical governance, training and to ensure appropriate follow-up of particular identified problems and/or patients.
• To participate in the provision of comprehensive pharmaceutical services for all Oxford University Hospitals.
• Complete a local induction programme including core training, and maintain core skills throughout employment.
• Act as a role model for pharmacy within the Trust, demonstrating Pharmacy Professional Standards and our Trust values.
• Deliver compassionate excellence via a patient-focused clinical pharmacy service, in accordance with national medicines optimisation principles and local clinical pharmacy procedures.
• Analyse prescriptions, alongside technical resources, patient records and information from patient consults to form an opinion on the most appropriate course of action, communicate this in a way that supports shared decision making.
• Participate in and promote antimicrobial stewardship activities.
• Accurately and sensitively communicate medicines-related information to a variety of healthcare professionals and patients including those with language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities.
• Plan and organise your own workload in alignment with professional and organisational priorities.
• Delegate and escalate appropriately.
• Support compliance with medicines-related legislative and regulatory requirements, including maintaining the security and quality of medicines stock.
• Undertake Audits and Quality Improvement Projects to support our culture of continuous improvement.
• Report unexpected or untoward events via the Trust's incident reporting system.
• Where relevant to a rotation, complete training in clinical trials and support the supply of investigational medicinal products.
• Undertake a program of study leading to a Postgraduate Clinical Diploma.
• Support the training and mentoring of our trainee pharmacists and technicians, as well as colleagues who are new to the Trust.
• Participate in weekend and bank holiday working according to the service needs.
• Any other reasonable duties as requested by the Clinical Director of Pharmacy or Associate Director of Pharmacy Clinical Service.

Person Specification

• Qualified to master's degree level (4 year MPharm or equivalent)
• Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council before starting in post [August 2025]
• Application of pharmacy knowledge to benefit patient care
• Medicine reconciliation at transfer of care.
• Patient consultations
• Working with other healthcare professionals
• Service improvement
• Organised and methodical in approach.
• Able to prioritise multiple tasks under restricted time pressure
• Capable of working autonomously with awareness of own limitations and knowing when to escalate
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
• Member of relevant professional group such as UKCPA
• Knowledge and experience in clinical pharmacy
• Hospital experience
• Audit/Quality improvement
• Use of Electronic prescribing systems
• Leadership

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

Clinical Effectiveness & Economy Pharmacist

£37,338 to £52,809 a year per annum pro rata