Job summary
We are please to advertise a newly create post for Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM) Clinical Service Unit (CSU)

We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed pharmacists to join our team. You will lead all aspects of diabetes and endocrine adult services within OCDEM which is a CSU within the Specialist Medicine Directorate.

The post holders will be active members of both the Pharmacy and Sterile Services and act as experts within Diabetes and Endocrine services.

Delivering clinical practice and service development for patient care ensuring the best experience and outcomes for patients from their medicines whenever and wherever their care is delivered.

There will be opportunities to develop clinical assessment skills, pharmacist-led clinics, be involved in the assessment of patients and delivery of care.

Main duties of the job

• Be or become a knowledge expert in clinical pharmacy relating to diabetes and endocrine including prescribing, screening, advising, and optimising medicines use in the area.
• Promote, monitor, and improve the safe and cost-effective use of medicines within diabetes and endocrine through regular communication, budgetary reports and feedback to the directorateincluding biologic medicines where appropriate.
• Develop and lead the pharmacy service to OCDEM CSU.
• Routinely review, update, or develop diabetes and endocrine, medicines related guidelines.
• To support the clinical management of patients who receive endocrine and diabetes treatments from the Trust.
• Have delegated responsibility for specific aspects of the diabetes pharmacy service and endocrine pharmacy service as agreed with the Directorate Pharmacist e.g. attendance at CSU executive or Governance meetings.
• Support and deputise for the Directorate Pharmacist in the provision of a safe, effective, and efficient clinical pharmacy service to the OCDEM CSU, in accordance with local and national standards and strategy.
• To support clinicians and Pharmacy homecare teams with the management of patients who have been enrolled onto homecare medicines supply
• To set up and lead pharmacist-led clinics for the treatment diabetes and endocrine and support MDTs.
• See Job Description for full details

About us
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.

Candidates who are successful at being shortlisted for this role will undergo a two stage interview process of a values based interview, followed by a a technical interview .

Details
Date posted: 29 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year
Per Annum / Pro Rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time,
Flexible working
Reference number: 321-CSS-8035517-B8a
Job locations: John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford
OX39DU
United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• Be or become a knowledge expert in clinical pharmacy relating to diabetes and endocrine including prescribing, screening, advising, and optimising medicines use in the area.
• Promote, monitor, and improve the safe and cost-effective use of medicines within diabetes and endocrine through regular communication, budgetary reports and feedback to the directorateincluding biologic medicines where appropriate.
• Develop and lead the pharmacy service to OCDEM CSU.
• Support and deputise for the Directorate Pharmacist in the provision of a safe, effective, and efficient clinical pharmacy service to the OCDEM CSU, in accordance with local and national standards and strategy.
• To champion the needs of diabetic and endocrine patients in relevant forums e.g. pharmacy governance.
• See job description for full details

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Qualified to masters degree level (4 year MPharm) or equivalent Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Post-Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent experience.
• Leadership qualification or training.
• Independent Prescriber

Desirable

• MSc in Clinical Pharmacy
• Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) or complete some of this course modules

Experience
Essential

• Broad clinical pharmacy provision in a number of different clinical areas or sectors.
• Working with senior clinicians and managers.
• Understanding of medication funding streams, drug usage and expenditure reports and use of financial reports to influence business cases and clinical practice.
• Delivering quality improvements
• Change management at a team level
• Negotiating and influencing
• Able to work autonomously or within a team
• Proven time management skills ability to work under pressure.

Desirable

• Recent clinical experience in the Acute Medicine
• Positive attitude to all tasks and stakeholders

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX39DU, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Divisional Lead Pharmacist MRC
Anand Pankhania
anand.pankhania@ouh.nhs.uk