[ref. h711404] Pharmacy Manager

Pharmacy Manager

Nuffield Health The Manor Hospital | Pharmacy | Permanent | Full Time

• We are happy to accommodate applications from outside Oxford and can offer a generous relocation package

1. 5 hours per week

Our Nuffield Health The Manor Hospital are seeking an enthusiastic and proactive Pharmacy Manager to join the team.

As a Pharmacy Manager, you will:

• Provide leadership and advice on medicines management to ensure that processes across all clinical departments throughout the hospital are safe, cost effective and legal and are supported by up to date policies, procedures and guidelines. This will include chairing the Medicines Management Forum on a quarterly basis.
• Be responsible for leading, motivating and managing the pharmacy team by providing excellent leadership.
• As the Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead, optimise the management of antimicrobials to minimise the occurrence of hospital acquired infections by ensuring pharmacy adherence to up to date policies, guidelines and systems of work. Undertake regular audit of this in conjunction with the IP nurse/nurse team.
• Ensuring the pharmacy team undertake daily ward rounds reconciling medication for new inpatients; counselling patients; managing PODs and checking for relevant allergies, adverse drug reactions and contra-indications to treatment, ensuring all medicines prescribed are clinically appropriate in line with national and/or local policies/guidelines etc.
• Assist and leading the team in facilitating timely and informed discharge of patients returning to primary care by dispensing, accuracy checking and clinically checking TTOs, counselling patients prior to discharge and in facilitating timely and informed discharge of patients returning to primary care.
• Lead on the implementation of medication safety alerts and drug recalls for the hospital working closely with the Director of Clinical Services.
• Implement and monitor DoH guidance on all aspects of controlled drugs use in the hospital and ensure the CD audit is completed quarterly.
• Ensure errors, complaints and incidents are managed in line with the Nuffield Health guidelines, specifically reporting these using the RADAR system and reviewing/investigating relevant RADAR reports relating to medicines.
• Support the development of other healthcare professionals and deliver medicines-focused training.

As a Pharmacy Manager, you will have:

• Be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Experience of working in a clinical setting as a Pharmacist is essential.
• Leadership / managerial experience in a Pharmacy setting.
• An awareness and knowledge of Oncology Pharmacy.

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Applications will be considered as they are received, and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Therefore, please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post.

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