Band 7 Rotational Pharmacist in Oxford

Building on your foundation knowledge, experience and skills, you will be working in a dynamic and rewarding setting to deliver compassionate excellence. As a specialist pharmacist you will grow in all four pillars of practice in order to prepare for an advanced practice role. In this post, you will have 12-month rotations across a range of clinical areas. The one year rotation allows you ample opportunity to become integrated in each new clinical area and expand your expertise and skillset, to mentor others, be involved in service development or research and to put your management and leadership skills into action in a supportive setting. The post holders should ensure timely, effective, two-way exchange of information between the pharmacy team and the clinical area as well as maintaining high standards of medicines management. Each rotation has a specific set of objectives which will be shared prior to annual 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, physical or mental disabilities, in a way that facilitates 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 NMP and when registered with the GPhC and the OUH to prescribe within the Trust's policy for Non-medical Prescribing.
• Support OUH dispensaries, and liaise with external agencies (such as aseptic production services or homecare providers) 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 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.

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 technical interview.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Essential: Masters Degree (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: Post Graduate Diploma/MSc in Pharmacy Practice or experience/ qualification/ credentialling deemed equivalent. Independent Prescriber, Completion of formal Leadership program.

Experience

• Essential: Direct patient care in more than 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: 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.

Personal skills

• Essential: Organised and able to manage own time, Evidence based, methodical approach, Puzzle/Problem solver, Autonomous with awareness of own limitations and knowing when to escalate, Excellent oral and written communication skills, Accountable and responsible for own decisions.
• Desirable: Excellent Clinical Prioritisation, Evidence of balancing conflicting priorities, Member of relevant professional group e.g. UKCPA.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.