Job summary
- Main area
- pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (on call rota approximately three weeks per year)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 267-CS7163610
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Warneford Hospital
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum | pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Services Pharmacist - Oxford
Band 7
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Job overview
Are you a GPhC registered pharmacist looking for a career opportunity in clinical services?
We are recruiting for a Clinical Services Pharmacist to join our multi-disciplinary team at the Warneford Hospital in Oxford on a 12-month fixed term contract. We can offer a variety of flexible working solutions, including full, part-time, and annualised hour contracts.
The Oxford Health Pharmacy & Medicines Management service employs approximately 80 staff, predominantly clinical pharmacists, and technicians, supported by dispensary and administrative staff. Clinical pharmacists and medicines management technicians are based (primarily) on clinical sites, with supply and support functions at hubs in Oxfordshire.
We provides services to our mental health in-patient and outpatient teams, including Acute adult mental health services, Forensic services, Learning disability services and CAMHS, as well as community hospitals.
Your role will primarily be focussed on supporting the adult and older adult mental health teams based at the Warneford site, though you'll be working alongside clinical pharmacy colleagues within the Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Swindon areas of the Mental Health Directorate so the ability to travel between sites will be required.
If you have experience working in hospital pharmacy and you're looking for your next career move, we'd love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
- Responsible for the development of strong clinical relationships with the patients, carers and healthcare professionals in your in-patient and community settings.
- Directly support patients, prescribers, and other healthcare professionals via attendance at multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings and one-to-one patient consultations, carry out medication reviews, engage in discharge-planning with the MDT and ensure the correct application of national and local guidance with regard to therapies involving medicines.
- Support and work alongside our centralised hub pharmacist where necessary (based at the Clinical Pharmacy Support Unit in Oxford).
- Support the ongoing development of the community based pharmacy services.
- Support the Trust and departmental clinical effectiveness initiatives.
- Be a member of the on-call pharmacist out of hours team as per rota where applicable.
- Be encouraged and supported to professionally develop in line with the departmental and your own personal needs as appropriate.
- Be supported in continuing professional development through regular clinical and peer group supervision and education sessions within the Pharmacy department and externally where practicable.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Optimise drug therapy for individual patients by participation in MDT meetings, drug history taking and Pharmaceutical Care Planning.
- Ensure objective monitoring of clinical response and side effects of medication as part of care planning
- Ensure that prescribing and administration of medication adheres to best evidence and practice and to Trust policy.
- Promote multi-disciplinary training regarding medication.
- Provide coordinated medicine information to patients as part of the discharge-planning process.
- Liaise with members of clinical team and external agencies as part of the CPA and discharge planning and to undertake needs assessment for individual patients e.g., compliance aid requirements
- Document clinical pharmacy contacts, interventions, and records such as drug histories and treatment plans on the pharmacy system and trust EPR system.
- Provide post-discharge care to patients, carers, and relatives as part of the support network, and to act as point of contact for CPNs, GPs and community pharmacists regarding interface issues
- Provide medicines information and advice to patients, carers, hospital, and community staff.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
Person specification
Aptitude and skills
Essential criteria
- Attained General Level Framework competency standard or able to demonstrate comparable experience/qualification.
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of quality and risk-management issues. Driver’s License
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Competence in the use of Microsoft Office (i.e., spreadsheets, word processing, presentation software). Ability to convey complex, sensitive information to other Healthcare professionals and patients.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to manipulate and analyse electronic data.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent. GPhC Registered. Evidence of CPD.
Desirable criteria
- Certificate in Psychiatric Therapeutics.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in hospital pharmacy (can be desirable dependent on experience)
Desirable criteria
- Experience in providing services to mental health units.
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Flexible approach to work. Ability to work as part of a team. Ability to prioritise conflicting pressures to meet service requirements. Self-motivated.
Contractual requirements
Desirable criteria
- Ability to travel between sites.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Aimee Chan
- Job title
- Clinical Lead pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07557 633893
- Additional information
Alternative contact:
Amanda Hotston: Directorate Lead pharmacist for Mental health
Tel: 07385226982
email: [email protected]
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
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