Rotational Specialist Pharmacist

NHS; Oxford; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Oxford is seeking a Rotational Specialist Pharmacist to join their progressive pharmacy department. This role offers the opportunity for 12-month rotations across various specialties, including emergency services and cardiology. Responsibilities include delivering patient-focused care, mentoring other pharmacists, and participating in service evaluations. The ideal candidate will have a relevant master's degree and be a GPhC member.

Qualifications

• Qualified to masters degree level (MPharm or equivalent).
• Member of the GPhC.
• Postgraduate diploma/MSC or relevant credentialing.

Responsibilities

• Deliver patient-focused clinical pharmacy service.
• Communicate medicines-related information effectively.
• Participate in antimicrobial stewardship initiatives.

Skills

Direct patient care

Communicating complex information

Mentoring and training others

Quality improvement

Leadership in a team

Education

Masters degree (MPharm or equivalent)

Post graduate Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy

Independent prescriber qualification

Job description

Rotational Specialist Pharmacist

The closing date is 30 October 2025

By applying for this job you will have the opportunity to join the progressive and pioneering pharmacy department at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for intuitive, enthusiastic and versatile pharmacists to join our diverse and inclusive team.

Program Overview

The OUH pharmacy specialist rotational programme offers you:

• Experience across multiple specialities and hospital sites, allowing you to develop a breadth of experience for your portfolio, with the opportunity to complete twelve-month rotations in areas such as: emergency and acute general medicine, gastroenterology, cardiology, specialist medicine, renal transplant, surgery, neurosciences, renal, general surgery, respiratory/AMS, rheumatology/orthopaedics and virtual wards.
• The opportunity to undertake prescribing courses dependent on rotation undertaken and prior completion of a postgraduate clinical diploma.
• The chance to take on leadership/mentoring responsibilities such as trainee pharmacist tutor or postgraduate clinical pharmacy tutor.

Each rotation is designed to give you the required skills to develop your clinical and non-clinical pharmacy skills within the RPS Advanced Pharmacist Framework.

Interviews likely to be 2 weeks after closing.

Main duties of the job

Building on your foundation knowledge, experience and skills, you will be working in a dynamic and rewarding setting to deliver compassionate excellence. As a specialist pharmacist you will grow in all four pillars of practice in order to prepare for an advanced practice role.

In this post, you will have 12-month rotations across a range of clinical areas. The one year rotation allows you ample opportunity to be integrated in each new clinical area and expand your expertise and skillset, to mentor others, be involved in service development or research and to put your management and leadership skills into action in a supportive setting. The post holders should ensure timely, effective, two-way exchange of information between the pharmacy team and the clinical area as well as maintaining high standards of medicines management. Each rotation has a specific set of objectives which will be shared prior to annual rotation selection and agreed at the start of the rotation.

Responsibilities

1. Deliver compassionate excellence via a patient focused clinical pharmacy service, in accordance with national medicines optimisation principles and local clinical pharmacy procedures.
2. Analyse prescriptions, alongside technical resources, patient records and information from patient consults to form an opinion on the most appropriate course of action.
3. Accurately and sensitively communicate medicines related information to a variety of healthcare professionals and patients including those with language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities, in a way that facilitates shared decision making.
4. Optimise transfer of patient care, through timely completion of medicines reconciliation and communication with GPs and community pharmacy teams.
5. Participate in and promote antimicrobial stewardship, medicines safety, and medicines effectiveness initiatives.
6. Where relevant to a rotation complete training in clinical trials and support the supply of investigational medicinal products.
7. Where a scope of practice has been identified within a rotation, train to become a NMP and when registered with the GPhC and the OUH to prescribe within the Trusts policy for Non-medical Prescribing.
8. Support OUH dispensaries, and liaise with external agencies (Such as aseptic production services or homecare providers) to ensure safe, timely and appropriate supply of medications to patients.
9. Complete a local induction programme, including core training and maintain core skills throughout employment.
10. Act as a role model for pharmacy within the Trust, demonstrating the GPhC Standards for Pharmacy Professionals and our Trust values.
11. Support and promote the Trusts equality, diversity and inclusion principles and our sustainability model.
12. Plan and organise your own workload in alignment with professional and organisational priorities.
13. Delegate and upscale appropriately.
14. Report any unexpected or untoward events via the Trusts incident reporting system.
15. Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team, and the support of your team lead, in developing the pharmacy service in line with the department and Trust strategies in response to changing service needs.
16. Support compliance with medicines related legislative and regulatory requirements, including maintaining the security and quality of medicines stock and be able to develop an action plan for improvements in a designated area.
17. Support the development and implementation of treatment protocols and guidelines for use of medicines within the clinical area.
18. Contribute to and implement the clinical governance plans of the clinical area and the pharmacy clinical governance plans.
19. Participate in, support and lead on Audits, Service evaluation and Quality/Cost Improvement Projects that align to our strategy and support our culture of continuous improvement.
20. Provide specialised professional and technical education at a professional or under-graduate level and at a level that patient/carers can understand in both inpatient and outpatient clinical environments across the primary and secondary care settings.
21. Tutor and support the training of trainee foundation pharmacists and technicians.
22. Any other reasonable duties as requested by the Clinical Director of Pharmacy, or Associate Director of Pharmacy Clinical Service.

Qualifications

• Qualified to masters degree level (MPharm or equivalent)
• Member of the GPhC
• Post graduate Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy in Clinical Pharmacy, and due to complete diploma or equivalent credentialling via CPPE or RPS
• Postgraduate diploma/MSC or relevant credentialling/experience/qualification
• Independent prescriber
• Edward Jenner Leadership program or equivalent

Experience

• Direct patient care in more than one setting or clinical area
• Working with other HCPs
• Communicating complex information via multiple methods to a variety of recipients
• Mentoring and training others in a healthcare setting
• Quality improvement, service evaluation or audit
• Taking the lead in a team or project
• Hospital experience in more than 1 speciality
• Appreciation of funding streams for medicine budgets
• Demonstrating measurable outcomes from quality or service improvement
• Preparation of protocols or guidelines

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

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum pro rata, as per Agenda For Change