An exciting opportunity has arisen to be the directorate pharmacist for Trauma & Orthopaedics at Oxford University Hospitals. You will have the opportunity to lead a pharmacy team providing clinical services to Trauma & Orthopaedics across multiple sites. The post offers you the chance to develop a specialist clinical role within the enhanced care unit alongside operational responsibilities, leading pharmacy services at a standalone hospital site.
A broad and varied role, your responsibilities will include developing pharmacy services across the NOC site, supporting elective recovery, business case development, and mentoring junior pharmacists. Optimising patient flow across Trauma & Orthopaedics, including elective and emergency services, will be key to success. You will lead the pharmacy team in achieving targets related to safety, operational efficiency, financial management, and productivity, with support from the Divisional Pharmacist.
You will facilitate and support the learning and development of the local pharmacy team, including appraisals, diploma tutoring, and pre-registration pharmacist training. It would be highly advantageous if you are an independent prescriber to support the wider multidisciplinary team, with the freedom to identify areas to maximise your skills in support of the service.
We are seeking a highly motivated, confident, and enthusiastic pharmacist with proven hospital pharmacy practice experience. The ideal candidate will demonstrate creativity, initiative, and a strong commitment to improving patient outcomes and experience. Previous experience in a surgical setting is desirable but not essential. Our department is forward-thinking, implementing new ways of working to deliver significant improvements in patient care and financial outcomes. Electronic prescribing is in place for all patients, and the NOC site has recently achieved HIMMs level 6 accreditation.
If you are looking for a role that combines clinical, operational, educational, and leadership responsibilities, this is the post for you.
Practicing at a highly advanced level in post-operative enhanced care, the directorate lead balances leadership and clinical practice to deliver compassionate excellence. Reporting to the Divisional Lead Pharmacist, you will maintain key relationships between your clinical directorate and the pharmacy directorate to ensure good medicine management and medicines optimisation.
The Directorate Lead Pharmacists act as role models, embodying Trust values and behaviours as well as clinical expertise. You will lead, develop, deliver, evaluate, and be responsible for providing comprehensive pharmacy services and medicines optimisation advice to the directorate, which includes Trauma (JR site), Orthopaedics (Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre - NOC site), and Rheumatology (NOC site). Your role includes line management of an expanding team of pharmacists responsible for clinical coverage across these areas.
You will provide operational oversight of pharmacy services at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and across the Trauma & Orthopaedics directorate. Your responsibilities include:
1. Collaborating with the highly advanced pharmacist for rheumatology to optimise services within available resources.
2. Supporting pharmacy services to trauma areas on the JR site in collaboration with the highly advanced pharmacist for specialist surgery and ophthalmology, including in-person support to junior staff on trauma wards at least once a fortnight.
3. Actively promoting pharmacy services within the Trauma & Orthopaedics directorate.
4. Ensuring pharmacy services are developed and expanded to meet the changing needs of patients in the directorate and at the NOC site.
Qualifications required include a first degree in pharmacy or equivalent, GPHC registration, PG diploma or equivalent experience, NMP, leadership training, and evidence of CPD. Desirable qualifications include MSc in clinical pharmacy, teaching and coaching qualifications, RPS Faculty membership, HFMA modules, and human factors training. You must hold appropriate UK professional registration.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts, providing a wide range of clinical services and serving as a hub for medical education, training, and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals: John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, and Horton General Hospital. Our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement, and excellence underpin the quality of care we provide and the professional relationships we foster.
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