Job overview
Are you looking for a new challenge within Acute Medicine Rehabilitation. We are looking for enthusiastic and committed pharmacists to join our team. One post holder will lead the hospital at home pharmacy team at Oxford University Hospitals. The second post holder will lead the Acute Admission team.
The post holders will be active members of both the Pharmacy and Sterile Services and act as experts within Acute Medicine.
Delivering clinical practice and service development for patient care ensuring the best experience and outcomes for patients from their medicines whenever and wherever their care is delivered.
There are opportunities to develop clinical assessment skills and be involved in the assessment of patients and delivery of care.
Main duties of the job
·Be or become a knowledge expert in clinical pharmacy relating to Hospital at Home () or Acute Emergency Admission including prescribing, screening, advising, and optimising medicines use in the area.
·Promote, monitor, and improve the safe and cost-effective use of medicines through regular communication, budgetary reports and feedback to the directorate
·Develop and lead the pharmacy service to your clinical area
·Routinely review, update, or develop medicines related guidelines
·Provide pharmaceutical advice to patients, carers, or specialists
·Have delegated responsibility for specific aspects of your clinical area
·Support and deputise for the Directorate Pharmacist in the provision of a safe, effective, and efficient clinical pharmacy service to the Acute Medicine Rehabilitation directorate, in accordance with local and national standards and strategy
Working for our organisation
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 .
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 a technical interview .