Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to be the directorate pharmacist for Specialist Surgery and Ophthalmology at Oxford University Hospitals. The Specialist Surgery directorate comprises of ENT, maxfax, vascular, plastic and head and neck surgery. You will have the opportunity to lead a pharmacy team providing a clinical services to inpatient, outpatient and day case areas across both elective and emergency pathways. The post offers you exceptional opportunities to develop a specialist clinical role to an area relevant to the directorates alongside your operational skills, leading pharmacy services to a diverse portfolio of areas.
You will pay a pivotal role in leading the pharmacy team in achieving a number of targets which include safety, operational, financial and productivity improvements and will be supported closely by the Divisional Pharmacist. You will facilitate & support the learning and development needs of the local pharmacy team including appraisal, diploma tutoring and pre-registration pharmacist training. It would be highly advantageous if you are an independent prescriber to support the wider multi-disciplinary team on site, and will have freedom to identify an area to maximise use of your skills to support the service.
Main duties of the job
Practicing at a Highly Advanced level in surgical patient management, 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 patient focussed care.
Directorate Lead Pharmacists act as role models in terms of Trust values and behaviours as well as clinical expertise. The post-holder will lead, develop, evaluate and be responsible for delivering a comprehensive pharmacy service.
The Specialist Surgery and Ophthalmology directorates cover services on hospital sites, and the role includes line management an expanding team of pharmacists responsible for day to day clinical cover for these areas.
The post holder’s role within these specialities includes to:
. Work collaboratively with the other directorate pharmacists across NOTSSCaN and the Specialist Surgery and Ophthalmology directorate teams.
. Actively promote pharmacy services and service need within the relevant directorates, keeping abreast of any services changes or development and their impact on pharmacy.
. Ensure pharmacy services are developed to meet the changing needs of the patient cohort under the care of the directorate.
. Balance service needs across inpatient, outpatient and day case specialities.
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 .