Job overview

This is a post that promotes, monitor and improve the safe and cost-effective use of medicines within the sub-specialties in Children’s Directorate through regular clinical service and planning, communication, budgetary report and feedback to the directorate leads.

It ensures patients safety and enhances therapeutic outcomes in very specialist areas of paediatrics that require expert pharmacist support.

The post will ensure high-quality and standardised service provision to patients requiring nutritional support (including TPN), high-cost medications and medications delivered via Homecare services.

Main duties of the job

1. To maintain a clinical expertise and develop particular areas of interest as appropriate and in accordance with the Trust and Pharmacy strategies. 

2. To provide a ward-based clinical pharmacy service .

3. Participate in ward rounds, clinical meetings or out-patient clinics as appropriate.

4. Maintain non-medical prescribing competencies, or train to become a NMP and when registered with the GPhC and the OUH to prescribe within the Trust’s policy for Non-medical Prescribing.

5. Contribute to the monitoring of safe, effective, and economic use of medicines in the directorate.

6. Participate in the production, critical appraisal, and reviews of medicines with evidence-based practice.

7. Contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of protocols for medicines, particularly for high cost, high use and high risk medicines, in response to clinical and business needs.

8. Be aware of Medicines Management/Medicines Safety issues for clinical area/directorate.

9. To provide clinical pharmacy cover to other ward areas within the team (or if required between pharmacy teams) on a reciprocal basis.

10. Support dispensary by participating in screening and dispensing as per rata.

11. To monitor PN and use of other medicines. This includes recording of significant clinical interventions and risk management.

12. Support the strategic developments of the service.

13. Actively contribute to the planning and efficient co-ordination of clinical pharmacy initiatives.

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. 

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If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.