Resident Pharmacist | University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Job Oxford area,England UK,Healthcare

Overview

Do you want to kickstart your pharmacy career? Are you looking for a role to grow your clinical expertise every day? This is a golden opportunity for registered pharmacists and current trainee pharmacists to join an exceptional resident pharmacist team.

We have a reputation for excellence in our pharmacy team and the quality of the service we provide. We will support your wellbeing and development as a pharmacist and offer many opportunities for you to flourish in a dynamic and enthusiastic team. We encourage and inspire your learning and progression, with many resident pharmacists continuing their career within OUH.

Pharmacy provides a comprehensive range of pharmaceutical services and extended clinical roles to many clinical areas, including tertiary specialities. We work closely with our clinical colleagues, including our eight consultant pharmacists, to develop your skills and knowledge and be part of a Trust providing world‑class clinical care. Our rotations are across four main sites and most of your time will be spent in clinical areas, engaging with patients and colleagues.

Benefits

Paid study leave and course fees to undertake a Clinical Diploma.
Opportunity to complete independent prescribing qualification as part of the Clinical Diploma.
Experience leading the dispensary during out‑of‑hours services.
Working as part of the Hospital at Night team, proactively reviewing patients requiring medicines optimisation.
Varied shift work to challenge and stretch you to become an expert at prioritisation and organisation.

Pharmacy Residency Programme offers

Experience across multiple specialities and hospital sites allowing you to develop a wide experience for your clinical pharmacy portfolio, with the opportunity to complete nine four‑month rotations in areas such as:
General medicine, Surgery, Stroke, Intensive Care, Orthopaedics, Neurology/neurosurgery, Children's, Renal and Transplant, Infectious Diseases, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cancer and Palliative Care, and Medicines Information.
A postgraduate clinical diploma with Cardiff University.

Responsibilities

To participate in the out of hours resident pharmacist rota across Oxford University Hospitals, covering weekdays, weekends and bank holidays, supporting the service with a senior pharmacist on call.

To record all out of hours calls on the on call records database to provide a measure of service use, peer review, clinical governance, training and to ensure appropriate follow up of particular identified problems and/or patients.

To participate in the provision of comprehensive pharmaceutical services for all Oxford University Hospitals.

Complete a local induction programme including core training, and maintain core skills throughout employment.

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, communicate this in 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 escape 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 unexpected or untoward events via the Trust's 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 over 2 or 3 years, with the opportunity to complete an independent prescribing qualification if not already obtained.

Use independent prescribing within own competency, following Trust approval.

Support the training and mentoring of our trainee pharmacists and technicians, as well as colleagues who are new to the Trust.

Participate in 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.

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