Responsibilities
- Become a knowledge expert in clinical pharmacy relating to neurosciences, including prescribing, screening, advising, and optimising medicine use.
- Promote, monitor and improve the safe and cost-effective use of medicines within neurosciences through regular communication, budgetary reports and feedback to the directorate.
- Develop and lead the pharmacy service to neurosciences.
- Routinely review, update or develop neurosciences medicines‑related guidelines.
- Provide pharmaceutical advice to patients, carers or specialists.
- Hold delegated responsibility for specific aspects of the neurosciences pharmacy service as agreed with the Directorate Pharmacist, including attendance at executive or governance meetings.
- Support and deputise for the Directorate Pharmacist in delivering a safe, effective and efficient clinical pharmacy service to the neurosciences directorate, in line with local and national standards and strategy.
- Champion the needs of neurosciences patients in relevant forums such as pharmacy governance.
- Provide specialised professional and technical education and training to enable clinical units to meet high standards of patient care and safety.
- Support and mentor junior pharmacists in the neurosciences pharmacy team, ensuring they receive appropriate education and training for their development, through regular one‑to‑one sessions and appraisals.
Qualifications
- Post‑graduate clinical pharmacy diploma.
- Leadership qualification or training.
- Broad clinical pharmacy experience across multiple clinical areas or sectors.
- Independent Prescriber status.
- Experience working across organisational boundaries.
- Line management experience.
- Appropriate UK professional registration.
Based at the John Radcliffe Hospital, the role is part of a well‑established, friendly neurosciences pharmacy team within Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
