Advanced Pharmacist Medicines Safety in Oxford

Role Overview

The main duties of the job are active involvement in managing incidents, leading on clinical improvement projects to ensure the safest use of medicines, optimising processes and systems, and engaging staff in the medicine safety agenda.

Compliance with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) and a disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring Service is required.

Key Responsibilities

• Use innovation to support effective patient outcomes, experience, and in particular to support safety improvement.
• Participate in audit, research and quality improvement to support medicines safety.
• Promote a multidisciplinary approach to medicines safety and ensure all healthcare professionals are trained and competent in safe medicines use.
• Act as a mentor and role model, be a source of expert medication safety practice and raise the profile and promote sharing and learning with colleagues and patients locally.
• Promote learning and sharing of experiences in improvement methodologies in relation to medicines safety.

About the Role

In this 1‑year post, as a key member of the medicines safety team, you will be involved in driving dynamic project‑based workstreams focused on optimising and improving the safe use of medicines throughout the trust. The role provides an opportunity to expand your expertise, be involved in service development or research, and to put your leadership skills into action in a supportive setting. The post holder should maintain high standards of pharmaceutical care and ensure timely, effective communication with both the multi‑disciplinary clinical teams and collaborators.

Qualifications

• Degree in Pharmacy (Masters) or equivalent.
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Post‑Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent experience.

Desirable Criteria

• MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or Patient Safety (or equivalent).
• Education and training experience.
• Patient safety or human Factors training.
• Broad clinical pharmacy provision in a number of different clinical areas or sectors.
• Delivering quality improvements and change management.
• Risk management and investigation of incidents.
• Line management / Leading a team.
• Appropriate UK professional registration.

About Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country, providing a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and acting as a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals: the John Redcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and 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\’, focusing on compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. OUHNHSFT is part of the acclaimed Shelford Group and is one of the largest teaching trusts in the UK. Our pharmacy department contains around 400 multidisciplinary healthcare staff. The medicines safety team is a multi‑disciplinary team who aim to promote the safe use of medicines across the trust to improve safety for all our patients and help equip staff with the knowledge and expertise they need to use medicines safely.