Specialist Pharmacist Paediatrics and Adult Neurosciences

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A major NHS teaching trust in Oxford seeks a pharmacist to provide clinical pharmacy services, conduct medication reviews, and ensure adherence to guidelines. The ideal candidate will hold a Master's in Pharmacy, be registered with the GPhC, and have a commitment to quality improvement. This role emphasizes collaborative work with multidisciplinary teams in various clinical settings.

Qualifications

• Masters Degree (4 Year MPharm or equivalent) in Pharmacy.
• Registered as pharmacist with the GPhC.
• Post Graduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice and due to complete the diploma.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with the pharmacy team to ensure adherence to guidelines.
• Provide comprehensive medication review and clinical pharmacy services.
• Monitor prescribing and drug expenditure, providing management reports.

Skills

Liaison with multidisciplinary teams

Cost-effective use of medication

Comprehensive medication review

Monitoring drug expenditure

Education

Masters Degree in Pharmacy

Registered as pharmacist with GPhC

Post Graduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice

Job description

Overview

1. Liaison with the directorate pharmacy team lead and the rest of multi-disciplinary team to ensure adherence to guidelines and new product reviews.
2. To identify, review and implement processes, policy and procedure that significantly improve the cost-effective use of medication within the clinical area based.
3. To provide a comprehensive medication review and clinical pharmacy service to the neurosciences and paediatric clinical areas.
4. To work closely with the directorate pharmacy team lead for neurosciences and the directorate pharmacy team lead for paediatrics.
5. To ensure accurate patient medication records are updated and maintained.
6. To be responsible for monitoring prescribing and drug expenditure, providing regular evaluated management reports and giving advice on cost containment.
7. To work with the neurosciences and paediatrics clinical pharmacy teams to support the pharmacy developments already started and to agree priorities.
8. To support the development, implementation and management of givinostat and vamarolone for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy via homecare and outpatient setting.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Qualifications

• Masters Degree (4 Year MPharm or equivalent) in Pharmacy
• Registered as pharmacist with the GPhC
• Post Graduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice and due to complete the diploma, or equivalent external credentialling via CPPE/ RPS

Desirable criteria

• Post Graduate Diploma/MSc in Pharmacy Practice or experience/ qualification/ credentialling deemed equivalent.
• Independent Prescriber
• Completion of formal Leadership program, Direct patient care in more than one setting or clinical area.
• Working with other health care professionals
• Communicating complex information via multiple methods to a variety of recipients.
• Quality improvement, service evaluation or audit
• Mentoring and training others in a healthcare setting
• Taking the lead in a team or project

Desirable criteria (continued)

• Hospital experience in more than one setting or clinical area
• Experience in Pharmaceutical care of patients in critical care or enhanced care setting
• Appreciation of funding streams for medicines budgets.
• Demonstrating measurable outcomes from quality or service improvement
• Preparation of protocols or guidelines
• You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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 and 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. Candidates who are successful at being shortlisted for this role will undergo a two stage interview process of a values based interview, followed by a technical interview.