Directorate Pharmacist for Neurosciences
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to be the directorate pharmacist for Neurosciences at Oxford University Hospitals. You will have the opportunity to lead a pharmacy team providing a clinical services to the tertiary Neurosciences service, including neurology, neurosurgery and neuro intensive care unit.
This is a 1 year (end date 31/3/26) fixed term opportunity to work as part of a job share (15 hours/week) with the current post holder. You will pay a pivotal role in leading the pharmacy team in achieving a number of targets which include safety, operational, financial and productivity improvements and will be supported closely by the Divisional Pharmacist.You will facilitate & support the learning and development needs of the local pharmacy team including appraisal, diploma tutoring and pre-registration pharmacist training. It would be highly advantageous if you are an independent prescriber to support the wider multi-disciplinary team, and will have freedom to identify an area to maximise use of your skills to support the service.
Across neurosciences, the current challenges centre around rapid service expansion due to rapid growth in medicines across parkinsons disease, multiple sclerosis and headache. This post requires you to balance the demands of an inpatient and outpatient pharmacy service.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a highly motivated, confident and enthusiastic pharmacist with a demonstrable competency in hospital pharmacy practice who can apply their current clinical experience within this setting. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate an ability to think creatively, use their initiative and have a strong commitment to improving patient outcomes and experience.Making best use of the excellent skills of the team currently in place will be paramount in achieving success in this area. Previous experience in a surgical setting would be desirable but not essential.
We are a forward thinking department who are implementing a series of new ways of working that will deliver significant improvements to our patients care and our financial goals.
If you are looking for a mix of clinical, operational, educational and leadership experience then this is the post for you.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Practicing at a Highly Advanced level in neurosciences, our directorate lead role balances leadership and clinical practice to deliver compassionate excellence. Reporting to the Divisional Lead Pharmacist, they maintain a key relationship between their clinical directorate and the pharmacy directorate to ensure good medicine management and the delivery of patient focussed medicines optimisation.
The Directorate Lead Pharmacists act as role models in terms of Trust values and behaviours as well as clinical expertise. The post-holder will lead, develop, deliver, evaluate and be responsible for delivering a comprehensive pharmacy service and medicines optimisation advice to the directorate.
The Neurosciences directorate is located on the John Radcliffe site and the role includes line management an expanding team of pharmacists responsible for day to day clinical cover for these areas.
The post holder will provide operational oversight to pharmacy services across the neurosciences directorate. The post holder’s role within these specialities includes to:
- Work collaboratively with the other directorate pharmacists across NOTSSCaN and the neurosciences directorate team.
- Actively promote pharmacy services and service need within the neurosciences directorate
- Ensure pharmacy services are developed and expanded to meet the changing needs of the patient cohort under the care of the neurosciences directorate
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- First degree in pharmacy or equivalent
- GPHC registration
- PG diploma or equivalent experience
- NMP
- Leadership qualification/training
- Evidence of CPD
- MSc in clinical pharmacy
- Teaching qualification
- Coaching qualification
- RPS Faculty membership
- HFMA modules
- Human factors training