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Specialist Pharmacist Gastroenterology/Hepatology:

1 YEAR FIXED TERM MATERNITY COVER (from August 2024)

Are you interested in working in the dynamic field of Gastroenterology and Hepatology?

Are you a qualified/newly qualified NMP and keen to utilise your prescribing skills on a regular basis?

Does the idea of working within a small but friendly and supportive pharmacy team that is well embedded within the wider MDT appeal to you?

If so this unique 1-year fixed term opportunity will tick these boxes and more!

We are looking for a conscientious clinical pharmacist with good communication, organisational and interpersonal skills, and an enthusiastic outlook to support service expansion as part of a friendly and dynamic pharmacy team lead by a consultant pharmacist.  

Our team supports a range of services to wards, daycase units and outpatients within one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in the UK, with a national and international reputation for the excellence of its services and role in teaching and research.

This post will provide the successful candidate an opportunity to develop both their clinical, managerial and research skills and develop a collaborative working relationship with both senior and junior clinicians and nursing teams within the organisation and with colleagues in primary care. 

The successful candidate should ideally have some previous gastroenterology/hepatology pharmacy experience or the prescribing of biologics although this is not essential.  

Main duties of the job

Key aspects of the role include:

·         Support the provision of a clinical pharmacy service to the gastroenterology/hepatology wards and daycase units.

·         Participate in the delivery of care to outpatient and virtual clinic settings.

• Support the provision and development of a holistic, specialist pharmaceutical care service to patients receiving high -risk, high-cost medication (e.g. biologics, hepatitis anti-virals) delivered via homecare services.
• Support the implementation of biosimilars and other cost-effective savings.

·         Work as a non- medical prescriber within an agreed framework.

·         Support the application of new medications to the formulary and the implementation of local and national guidance e.g. NICE. 

• Maintain records of patients on high-cost therapies (e.g. biologics) and assist with monitoring such as BlueTeq to ensure compliance with NICE and commissioning guidelines.

·         Provide education, training and support to pharmacy, nursing, and medical colleagues.

·         Attend and contribute MDT ward rounds, meetings, and Homecare user group as appropriate.   

·         Participate in clinical audit and research.

Working for our organisation

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.