Advanced Pharmacist Medicines Safety

Transformationunitgm; Oxford; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS teaching trust in Oxford is seeking a pharmacy professional to join the medicines safety team. This role involves optimizing smart infusion pump technology and ensuring the safe use of injectable medications across the organization. The ideal candidate will hold a Master's degree in Pharmacy and have experience in clinical pharmacy. Key responsibilities include risk management and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to improve medicine safety. The position offers a competitive salary and an opportunity for career development.

Qualifications

• Must have a Degree in Pharmacy and be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Experience in clinical pharmacy across different areas is required.
• Knowledge of risk management and incident investigation is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of smart infusion pump technology across the Trust.
• Promote safe use of injectable medicines and manage risks.
• Engage with staff to enhance the medicine safety agenda.

Skills

Leadership

Risk management

Quality improvement

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Degree in Pharmacy (Masters)

Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Post-Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma

MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or Patient Safety

Job description

Employer Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site John Radcliffe Hospital Town Oxford Salary £55,690 - £62,682 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 30/12/2025 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 8a

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 of 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 thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Many of our recruitment programmes useValue Based Interviewingto identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visitwww.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values

Job overview

In this post, you will be a key member of the medicines safety team, involved in dynamic workstreams focused on optimising and improving the safe use of medicines throughout the trust.

This role provides an opportunity to take a leadership role in the injectable safety workstream within the Medicines Safety team. The postholder will be involved in implementing and optimising smart infusion pump technology across the trust. This includes designing and implementing drug-error reduction software, namely interpreting a range of resources to define clinical dosing parameters for drugs administered using smart infusion pumps in a range of clinical areas.

The role provides an opportunity to expand your expertise and skillset, to be involved in service development or research and to put your management and leadership skills into action in a supportive setting. The post holder should maintain high standards of pharmaceutical care, ensure timely, effective, communication with both the multi-disciplinary clinical teams and collaborators.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the job are active involvement in implementing and optimising smart infusion pump technology across the Trust, learning from incidents and risks, measuring and monitoring safety to ensure the safest use of medicines, optimising processes and systems and engaging all staff in the medicine safety agenda.

Working for our organisation

OUHNHSFT is part of the acclaimed Shelford Group and is one of the largest teaching trusts in the UK. Our pharmacy department contains around 400 multidisciplinary healthcare staff.

The medicines safety team is a multi-disciplinary team who aim to promote the safe use of medicines across the trust to improve safety for all our patients and help equip staff with the knowledge and expertise they need to use medicines safely.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main responsibilities

• To promote the safe use of injectable medicines in accordance with guidance and evidence based best practice, to support the implementation of drug-error reduction software across the Trust.
• To work with corporate and divisional colleagues to ensure medication risks are identified as part of the dose error reduction software infusion pump project. To assess risks and ensure risk reduction measures are put in place and monitored.
• To promote a multidisciplinary approach to implementation and optimisation of smart infusion pump technology.
• To promote learning and sharing of experiences in risk reduction and improvement methodologies in relation to infusion pump technology.
• To participate in audit, research and quality improvement to support medicines safety.
• To use innovation to support effective patient outcomes, experience, improve cost effectiveness and in particular to support safety improvement.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Degree in Pharmacy (Masters) or equivalent
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Post-Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent experience
• MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or Patient Safety (or equivalent)
• Education and training experience
• Patient safety or human Factors training

Experience

• Broad clinical pharmacy provision in a number of different clinical areas or sectors.
• Delivering quality improvements and change management
• Risk management and investigation of incidents
• Line management / Leading a team

COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment , we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination.

Vacancy Closures: Please note, this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications are received.

Probation Period: This post is subject to a 6 month probationary period. If you currently hold a contract of employment with the Oxford University Hospitals, this will not apply. This statement does not apply to Medical staff or Executive Appointments.

Referencing: When providing employment reference details please provide correct work related email addresses so references can be sought promptly when we are looking to progress your application. Your first referee will need to be your line manager, supervisor or clinical lead from your current or most recent post or place of study. Please note that if you have previously worked for the Trust we will require a reference from your last Manager, this information is essential if your offer of employment is to be confirmed.

Next Steps: Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification, and that your supporting statement reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria. Candidates selected for interview will be contacted after the short-listing process, usually within 2 weeks. (Please note that shortlisting times vary when applying for a Medical position within the Trust). The majority of correspondence will be via the e-recruitment system; therefore you should check your emails regularly including junk mail folders in web-based email products.

No unsolicited recruitment agency telephone calls or emails.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

Please note that this job advertisement will close automatically once the application limit is reached, regardless of whether this occurs before the advertised closing date.