Job overview
Do you enjoy the challenges of meeting complex pharmaceutical care needs, with the back-up of an experienced clinical pharmacy team? Are you enthusiastic, self-motivated and keen to improve the direct care of patients?
Building on your foundation knowledge, experience and skills, you will be working in a dynamic and rewarding setting to deliver compassionate excellence. As a specialist pharmacist you will grow in all four pillars of practice in order to prepare for an advanced practice role.
This is a key role within the pharmacy team delivering services to the neurosciences directorate including neurosciences intensive care unit (NICU).
Main duties of the job
Key areas of the role include:
1. Liaison with the directorate pharmacy team lead and the rest of multi-disciplinary team to ensure adherence to neuro-critical care 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 clinical areas including neuro intensive care unit, neurosciences, neurology, and outpatients.
4. To work closely with the directorate pharmacy team lead for neurosciences in the implementation, review and audit of the introduction of ward and ICU based pharmacy services and new technology.
5. To ensure accurate patient medication records are updated and maintained.
6. To be responsible for monitoring prescribing and drug expenditure within the neuroscience’s areas, providing regular evaluated management reports and giving advice on cost containment.
7. To work with the neurosciences clinical pharmacy team to support the pharmacy developments already started and to agree priorities.
8. To work closely with a ward-based technician or assistant, where available, in providing ward-based pharmacy services.
9. To be the pharmacy representative within the neurosciences area and to represent the area within Pharmacy.
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 .