Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 321-NOTSS-7421602-B7-EXT
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Pharmacy Department, John Radcliffe Hospital
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 Per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Pharmacist Paediatrics and Adult Neurosciences
NHS AfC: Band 7
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 of 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.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job overview
A unique opportunity has arisen to join us as a specialist pharmacist, working 3 days a week in the paediatric team and 2 days a week in the adult neurosciences team. Our band 7 pharmacist roles allow you to build on your foundation knowledge and move into highly specialist areas
Why do our staff like working here?
Dynamic & rewarding setting
Vast range of specialities with high levels of complexity.
Always something new, innovative and exciting happening - new cutting edge treatments and technologies
Large group of supportive peers from diverse backgrounds
Supportive department, with great learning and development opportunities
Good career progression options to consultant level
Pharmacists seen as valued members of the MDT who add positive contributions to patient care
Working in teams with Consultant Pharmacists who are leading in their areas of specialisation nationally
Main duties of the job
1. Liaison with the directorate pharmacy team lead and the rest of multi-disciplinary team to ensure adherence to 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 and paediatric clinical areas
4. To work closely with the directorate pharmacy team lead for neurosciences and the directorate pharmacy team lead for paediatrics
5. To ensure accurate patient medication records are updated and maintained.
6. To be responsible for monitoring prescribing and drug expenditure, providing regular evaluated management reports and giving advice on cost containment.
7. To work with the neurosciences and paediatrics clinical pharmacy teams to support the pharmacy developments already started and to agree priorities.
8. To support the development, implementation and management of givinostat and vamarolone for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy via homecare and outpatient setting.
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 OUH YouTube channel.
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 .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to above sections on job summary and main duties of the job and refer to the job description. We are happy to chat with you or arrange a visit to find out further details.
What additional opportunities are available to me?
Professional Practice:
Independent prescribing
UKCPA and CPPE courses
Time management
Improving customer care
Collaborative working:
Confidence/assertiveness training
Clinical governance meetings/MDT/board rounds
Volunteering to join departmental wellbeing or EDI groups
Leadership Management:
NHS leadership academy
CPPE leading for change
Value based appraisal training
Line management/buddy system to support foundation pharmacists
Education&Training:
Mentoring
Postgraduate clinical diploma tutor
Foundation pharmacist tutor
Research&Evaluation:
Audit/quality improvement
Service evaluation
Academic Pharmacy Practice unit with the University of Reading
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters Degre (4 Year MPharm or equivalent) in Pharmacy
- Registered as pharmacist with the GPhC
- Post Graduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice and due to complete the diploma, or equivalent external credentialling via CPPE/ RPS
Desirable criteria
- Post Graduate Diploma/MSc in Pharmacy Practice or experience/ qualification/ credentialling deemed equivalent.
- Independent Prescriber
- Completion of formal Leadership program
Experience
Essential criteria
- Direct patient care in more than one one setting or clinical area.
- Working with other health care professionals
- Communicating complex information via multiple methods to a variety of recipients.
- Quality improvement, service evaluation or audit
- Mentoring and training others in a healthcare setting
- Taking the lead in a team or project
Desirable criteria
- Hospital experience in more than one setting or clinical area
- Experience in Pharmaceutical care of patients in critical care or enhanced care setting
- Appreciation of funding streams for medicines budgets.
- Demonstrating measurable outcomes from quality or service improvement
- Preparation of protocols or guidelines
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Faulkner
- Job title
- Divisional Pharmacist NOTSSCaN
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 222946
- Additional information
additional contact:
Charlotte Saunders - Directorate Pharmacist Neurosciences
Olivia Moswela - Directorate Pharmacist Neurosciences
Ebraheem Junaid - Directorate Pharmacist Paediatrics
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