Job overview
A rare opportunity is available for a fixed term contract or secondment to cover parenting leave in a directorate leadership role supporting medicines management in Radiology.
The role of Directorate Team Lead & Highly Advanced Pharmacist in Radiology & Imaging, encompasses the strategic oversight and direction of clinical pharmacy services and medicines management for all Radiology and Imaging modalities across the organisation.
The post-holder will gain insight into this unique clinical area and be the liaison point between Pharmacy and Radiology to help with understanding of the needs and practices of both services, and to gain closer collaboration.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will provide expert pharmaceutical advice and medicines governance oversight to managers, medical, nursing and other healthcare staff developing services or providing patient care in Radiology modalities and in particular, with regard to radiopharmaceutical medicines.
As a Directorate Lead within the CSS Division, the post-holder will work with the Divisional Pharmacist CSS to develop a vision for pharmacy services required in other Directorates within CSS, such as the Psychological Medicine, Pain and Outpatient (PPO) directorate.
Practicing at a Highly Advanced level in a specialism within the directorate our directorate lead role balances leadership and clinical practice to deliver compassionate excellence. Reporting to the Divisional Lead Pharmacist, they maintain a key relationship between their clinical directorate and the pharmacy directorate to ensure good medicine management and the delivery of patient focussed medicines optimisation.
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 .