Specialist Pharmacist Paediatrics and Adult Neurosciences

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Specialist Pharmacist Paediatrics and Adult Neurosciences

The closing date is 27 October 2025

A unique opportunity has arisen to join us as a specialist pharmacist, working 3 days a week in the paediatric team and 2 days a week in the adult neurosciences team. Our band 7 pharmacist roles allow you to build on your foundation knowledge and move into highly specialist areas

Why do our staff like working here?

Dynamic & rewarding setting

Vast range of specialities with high levels of complexity.

Always something new, innovative and exciting happening - new cutting edge treatments and technologies

Large group of supportive peers from diverse backgrounds

Supportive department, with great learning and development opportunities

Good career progression options to consultant level

Pharmacists seen as valued members of the MDT who add positive contributions to patient care

Working in teams with Consultant Pharmacists who are leading in their areas of specialisation nationally

Main duties of the job

1. Liaison with the directorate pharmacy team lead and the rest of multi-disciplinary team to ensure adherence to guidelines and new product reviews.
2. To identify, review and implement processes, policy and procedure that significantly improve the cost-effective use of medication within the clinical area based.
3. To provide a comprehensive medication review and clinical pharmacy service to the neurosciences and paediatric clinical areas.
4. To work closely with the directorate pharmacy team lead for neurosciences and the directorate pharmacy team lead for paediatrics.
5. To ensure accurate patient medication records are updated and maintained.
6. To be responsible for monitoring prescribing and drug expenditure, providing regular evaluated management reports and giving advice on cost containment.
7. To work with the neurosciences and paediatrics clinical pharmacy teams to support the pharmacy developments already started and to agree priorities.
8. To support the development, implementation and management of givinostat and vamarolone for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy via homecare and outpatient setting.

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.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

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 .

Job responsibilities

Please refer to above sections on job summary and main duties of the job and refer to the job description. We are happy to chat with you or arrange a visit to find out further details.

What additional opportunities are available to me?

Professional Practice:

• Independent prescribing
• UKCPA and CPPE courses
• Time management
• Improving customer care

Collaborative working:

• Confidence/assertiveness training
• Clinical governance meetings/MDT/board rounds
• Volunteering to join departmental wellbeing or EDI groups

Leadership Management:

• NHS leadership academy
• CPPE leading for change
• Value based appraisal training
• Line management/buddy system to support foundation pharmacists

Education & Training:

Research & Evaluation:

• Audit/quality improvement
• Academic Pharmacy Practice unit with the University of Reading

Person Specification Qualifications

• Masters Degre (4 Year MPharm or equivalent) in Pharmacy
• Registered as pharmacist with the GPhC
• Post Graduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice and due to complete the diploma, or equivalent external credentialling via CPPE/ RPS
• Post Graduate Diploma/MSc in Pharmacy Practice or experience/ qualification/ credentialling deemed equivalent.
• Completion of formal Leadership program

Experience

• Direct patient care in more than one one setting or clinical area.
• Working with other health care professionals
• Communicating complex information via multiple methods to a variety of recipients.
• Quality improvement, service evaluation or audit
• Mentoring and training others in a healthcare setting
• Taking the lead in a team or project
• Hospital experience in more than one setting or clinical area
• Experience in Pharmaceutical care of patients in critical care or enhanced care setting
• Appreciation of funding streams for medicines budgets.
• Demonstrating measurable outcomes from quality or service improvement
• Preparation of protocols or guidelines

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.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Pharmacy Department, John Radcliffe Hospital

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearPer annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

321-NOTSS B7-EXT

Job locations

Pharmacy Department, John Radcliffe Hospital