Overview
Building on your foundation knowledge, you will work in a dynamic setting to deliver compassionate excellence. As a specialist pharmacist you will grow in all four pillars of practice to prepare for an advanced practice role. The post offers 12-month rotations across a range of clinical areas, enabling integration in each new area, expanding your expertise, mentoring others, being involved in service development or research, and applying management and leadership skills in a supportive setting. The post holders should ensure timely, effective, two-way communication between the pharmacy team and the clinical area, and maintain high standards of medicines management. Each rotation has objectives that will be shared prior to rotation selection and agreed at the start of the rotation.
Main duties of the job
* Deliver compassionate excellence via a patient-focused clinical pharmacy service, in accordance with national medicines optimisation principles and local clinical pharmacy procedures.
* Analyse prescriptions, alongside technical resources, patient records and information from patient consults to form an opinion on the most appropriate course of action.
* Accurately and sensitively communicate medicines-related information to a variety of healthcare professionals and patients, including those with language difficulties or disabilities, to facilitate shared decision making.
* Optimise transfer of patient care through timely completion of medicines reconciliation and communication with GPs and community pharmacy teams.
* Participate in and promote antimicrobial stewardship, medicines safety, and medicines effectiveness initiatives.
* Where relevant to a rotation, complete training in clinical trials and support the supply of investigational medicinal products.
* Where a scope of practice has been identified within a rotation, train to become a Non-Medical Prescriber (NMP) and, when registered with the GPhC and OUH, prescribe within the Trust's policy for non-medical prescribing.
* Support OUH dispensaries and liaise with external agencies to ensure safe, timely and appropriate supply of medications to patients.
About us
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, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, and the Horton General Hospital. Our values are compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence, guiding the quality of care we offer and our professional relationships.
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. Shortlisted candidates will undergo a two-stage interview process: a values-based interview followed by a technical interview.
Details
Date posted: 30 October 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for Change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 per year (pro rata)
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 321-CSS-7491070-B7-PUB
Job locations
Pharmacy Department, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Oxford, OX3 9DU
Job responsibilities
Please refer to above sections on job summary and main duties of the job.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Essential: Masters Degree (4 Year MPharm or equivalent) in Pharmacy
* Essential: Registered as pharmacist with the GPhC
* Essential: Postgraduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice and due to complete the diploma, or equivalent external credentialling via CPPE/RPS
* Desirable: Postgraduate Diploma/MSc in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
* Desirable: Independent Prescriber
* Desirable: Completion of formal Leadership program
Experience
* Essential: Direct patient care in more than one setting or clinical area
* Essential: Working with other healthcare professionals
* Essential: Communicating complex information via multiple methods to a variety of recipients
* Essential: Quality improvement, service evaluation or audit
* Essential: Mentoring and training others in a healthcare setting
* Essential: Taking the lead in a team or project
* Desirable: Hospital experience in more than one setting or clinical area
* Desirable: Experience in pharmaceutical care of patients in critical or enhanced care settings
* Desirable: Understanding of funding streams for medicines budgets
* Desirable: Demonstrating measurable outcomes from quality or service improvement
* Desirable: Preparation of protocols or guidelines
Personal skills
* Essential: Organised and able to manage own time
* Essential: Evidence-based, methodical approach
* Essential: Problem solving
* Essential: Autonomous with awareness of limitations and when to escalate
* Essential: Excellent oral and written communication skills
* Essential: Accountable and responsible for own decisions
* Desirable: Excellent clinical prioritisation
* Desirable: Evidence of balancing conflicting priorities
* Desirable: Member of professional groups (e.g., UKCPA)
Other information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require a DBS submission.
Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require skilled worker sponsorship will be considered. For more information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. See NHS Careers website for details.
Employer details: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Pharmacy Department, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Oxford, OX3 9DU. Website: ouh.nhs.uk
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