Job summary
This is an ideal development post for a newly qualified pharmacist or for a pharmacist wanting to take their first steps into a hospital pharmacy career in a vibrant, nurturing and supportive setting. The Horton Hospital, is part of the Oxford Universities NHS Foundation Trust, based in the centre of Banbury. Banbury is a historic market town in North Oxfordshire on the edge of the Cotswolds.

Main duties of the job
You will have the opportunity to apply your pharmaceutical knowledge across a variety of different specialties and to continuously build both your confidence and knowledge base through formal and informal learning within a friendly team. You will rotate through a variety of acute clinical settings which will include both medical, surgical and paediatric clinical specialties with opportunities to apply your knowledge to support treatment of patients in the emergency department and a busy ambulatory unit. In your new role you will be taking responsibility and using initiative in managing your own workload blended with being a team player and knowing your limitations and asking for help and support as needed. You will be encouraged and supported in undertaking leadership tasks and to be involved in quality improvement and service development.

About us
OUH is a leading edge Trust and one of the Shelford group accredited Trusts. It has a well earned reputation for being a great place to work. It has a huge diversity of specialisms and long history of academic and clinical excellence. As well as being patient centred it is also staff centred and they have an array of staff support services.

Job responsibilities

• Act as a role model for pharmacy within the Trust, demonstrating Pharmacy Professional Standards and our Trust values
• Deliver compassionate excellence via a patient focused clinical pharmacy service, in accordance with national medicines optimisation principles and local clinical pharmacy procedures.
• Analyse prescriptions, alongside technical resources, patient records and information from patient consults to form an opinion on the most appropriate course of action and communicate this is a way that supports shared decision making.
• Participate in and promote antimicrobial stewardship activities.
• Accurately and sensitively communicate medicines related information to a variety of healthcare professionals and patients including those with language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities.
• Plan and organise your own workload in alignment with professional and organisational priorities.
• Delegate and escalate appropriately.
• Support compliance with medicines related legislative and regulatory requirements, including maintaining the security and quality of medicines stock.
• Undertake Audits and Quality Improvement Projects to support our culture of continuous improvement.
• Report any unexpected or untoward events via the Trusts incident reporting system.
• Where relevant to a rotation complete training in clinical trials and support the supply of investigational medicinal products.
• Undertake a program of study leading to a Postgraduate Clinical Diploma.
• Support the training and mentoring of our trainee pharmacists and technicians, as well as colleagues who are new to the Trust.
• Participate in unsociable hours weekend and bank holiday working according to the service needs.
• Any other reasonable duties as requested by the Clinical Director of Pharmacy, or Associate Director of Pharmacy Clinical Service.

Person specification – Essential

• Masters Degree (4 year MPharm or equivalent) in Pharmacy
• Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council before starting in post
• Application pharmacy knowledge to benefit patient care
• Medication reconciliation at transfer of care
• Working with other health care professionals
• Service improvement
• Patient consultations
• Organised and methodical in approach
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Ability to travel to all sites including the use of public transport
• Acts in accordance with the Trust values
• Adaptable and resilient
• Professionalism at all times

Person specification – Desirable

• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
• Member of relevant professional group Such as UKCPA
• Knowledge and experience in clinical pharmacy
• Hospital experience
• Audit/Quality improvement
• Electronic prescribing systems
• Prioritisation
• Leadership

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.

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.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer contact details
Horton Lead Pharmacist Jane Durman
jane.durman@ouh.nhs.uk
01295229433