Directorate Pharmacist for Neurosciences

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to be the directorate pharmacist for Trauma & Orthopaedics at Oxford University Hospitals. You will have the opportunity to lead a pharmacy team providing a clinical services to Trauma & Orthopaedics services cross-site. The post offers you exceptional opportunities to develop a specialist clinical role (to the enhanced care unit) alongside your operational skills, leading pharmacy services to a standalone hospital site.

A broad and varied role, being responsible for developing pharmacy services across the NOC site which includes supporting elective recovery, business cases & mentoring junior pharmacists. Optimising patient flow across both Trauma & Orthopaedics will be key to success, with a mix of elective & emergency services. 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 on site, and will have freedom to identify an area to maximise use of your skills to support the 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. Electronic prescribing is in place for all patients and the NOC site was recently awarded HIMMs level 6 accreditation.

If you are looking for a mix of clinical, operational, educational and leadership experience then this is the post for you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Practicing at a Highly Advanced level in post operative enhanced care, 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 T&O directorate includes Trauma (JR site), Orthopaedics (Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre - NOC site) and Rheumatology (NOC 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 on the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre site, and across the T&O directorate as a whole. The post holder’s role within these specialities includes to:

• Work collaboratively with the highly advanced pharmacist for rheumatology to optimise service within available resource.
• Work collaboratively with the highly advanced pharmacist for specialist surgery and ophthalmology to support pharmacy service provision to trauma areas on JR site, providing in person support to junior staff working on trauma wards at the JR at least one day per fortnight.
• Actively promote pharmacy services and service need within the trauma and orthopaedics directorate.
• Ensure pharmacy services are developed and expanded to meet the changing needs of the patient cohort under the care of the T&O directorate, and on the NOC site.