# Interim Divisional Lead Pharmacist - NOTSSCaN

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** John Radcliffe Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Pharmacist
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £79,504 - £91,609 Plus 2% EDC payment for senior on-call rota
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Also available as Internal/ External secondment)
- **Employment type:** Part time, Flexible working, Compressed hours, 32 hours per week (+ Senior on-call)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-23T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09T12:21:41.701Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Oxfordshire/Oxford/Oxford_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8236305
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8236305?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.ouh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Care to join us? If you are looking for your next leadership step you could be our perfect candidate for one of our Divisional Team Lead roles! Our four Divisional Lead Pharmacists together with their directorate leads form the leadership team for the OUH Clinical Pharmacy Service. Reporting to the Associate Director of Pharmacy (Clinical Services), they play a key role in delivering the Pharmacy and Sterile Services Directorate’s vision by engaging their own teams and their wider divisional team to deliver our goals and objectives.

This is an interim post for 12 months, so offers the ideal opportunity to test if a senior leadership role is for you, and to gain new experiences for your portfolio.

You will be responsible for pharmacy services to our Neurosciences, Orthopaedics, Trauma, Specialist Surgery, Children and Neonates Division, which consists of the following Directorates; Neurosciences, Specialist Surgery, Trauma & Orthopaedics, Children's, Ophthalmology, Major Trauma & Theatres. The soon to open Surgical Elective Centre also forms part of the division's services.

### Main duties of the job

The Divisional Lead Pharmacists act as role models in terms of Trust values and behaviours as well as clinical expertise. The post-holder will lead and manage, the delivery of an exemplary clinical pharmacy service to their division, in accordance with national standards and strategy.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This role maintains a key relationship between their division and the pharmacy directorate to ensure excellent medicine management and the delivery of patient focussed medicines optimisation. The divisional lead is an integral member of the divisional management team, providing expert advice on pharmaceutical matters and taking responsibility for ensuring medicines management and pharmacy services are considered and and any risks mitigated in all developments within the division. The post-holder will need to balance the demands of human resource management, medicines governance and safety, antimicrobial stewardship and cost-effective use of medicines and resources.

Full details are in the attached job description.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

## Person Specification

### guidance

**Essential**

- GPhC Registration
- Post Gradualte Diploma/MSc or equivalnet
- Leadership Qualification or Training
- Broad clinical or directorate pharmacy provision
- Experience leading change
- Incident investigation and risk management
- Deliver of cost improvement/reduction

**Desirable**

- Teaching qualification
- COaching qualification
- RPS credentialing/ faculty
- Recent clinical expereince within Divisions sepciality
- Policy development

## Documents

- [jdps (pdf, 224.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10546740)

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