Pharmacy Manager in Oxford

Location: Oxford

Salary: £57,750 per year

Recruiter: Nuffield Health

Job Hours: Full-time

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Pharmacy Manager

Nuffield Health Oxford, The Manor Hospital | Pharmacy | Permanent Contract | Full Time

Up to £57,750.00 per annum, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health the UKs largest healthcare charity, everything we give our patients, members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your warmth, your drive to make a difference. Whether it’s driving connected health, helping the nation, transforming experiences, or building the career you want – we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.

Our Nuffield Health The Manor Hospital are seeking an enthusiastic and proactive Pharmacy Manager to join the team.

Duties will include ensuring adherence to medicines optimisation policies and procedures, providing oversight of pharmaceutical stock procurement, as well as other associated pharmaceutical duties and have a key role in delivering high quality clinical care and advice to our patients and teams across a range of departments including ICU/HDU, the Pre-assessment clinic, Outpatient Department, Ward, Theatres and Oncology Team.

The opportunity

You will have excellent communication and organisational skills; have the ability to work under pressure and influence others whilst always maintaining a professional attitude. As a Pharmacy Manager it is important that you will be confident to work independently as well as a member of our larger health professional community, leading a team to always strive to improve the quality of our services for our patients.

As a Pharmacy Manager, you will:

Provide leadership and advice on medicines management to ensure that processes across all clinical departments throughout the hospital are safe, cost effective and legal and are supported by up to date policies, procedures and guidelines. This will include chairing the Medicines Management Forum on a quarterly basis.

Be responsible for leading, motivating and effectively managing the pharmacy team by providing excellent leadership.

As the Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead, optimise the management of antimicrobials to minimise the occurrence of hospital acquired infections by ensuring pharmacy adherence to up to date policies, guidelines and systems of work. Undertake regular audit of this in conjunction with the IP nurse/nurse team.

Ensuring the pharmacy team undertake daily ward rounds reconciling medication for new inpatients; counselling patients; managing PODs and checking for relevant allergies, adverse drug reactions and contra-indications to treatment, ensuring all medicines prescribed are clinically appropriate in line with national and/or local policies and guidelines etc.

Assist and leading the team in facilitating timely and informed discharge of patients returning to primary care by dispensing, accuracy checking and clinically checking TTOs, counselling patients prior to discharge and in facilitating timely and informed discharge of patients returning to primary care.

Lead on the implementation of medication safety alerts and drug recalls for the hospital working closely with the Director of Clinical Services.

Implement and monitor DoH guidance on all aspects of controlled drugs use in the hospital and ensure the CD audit is completed quarterly.

Ensure errors, complaints and incidents are managed in line with the Nuffield Health guidelines, specifically reporting these using the RADAR system and reviewing/investigating relevant RADAR reports relating to medicines.

Support the development of other healthcare professionals and deliver medicines-focused training upon request.

As a Pharmacy Manager, you will have:

Be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Experience of working in a clinical setting as a Pharmacist is essential.

Leadership / managerial experience in a Pharmacy setting.

An awareness and knowledge of Oncology Pharmacy.

Share evidence based practices with colleagues to enhance service and standards The ability to make decisions and use your initiative.

Strong communication skills.

Passion to deliver excellent care in a rewarding and what can be emotionally challenging environment.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy, and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. From financial and emotional wellbeing support to an online GP, gym membership and private healthcare. At Nuffield Health, we’ll take care of what’s important to you.

Nuffield Health Oxford

Our modern hospital is based within a stone’s throw of the historic City of Oxford, a world-renowned centre of excellence for surgical and medical expertise. We are proud of the wonderful environment and team we have established, providing our patients with first class care. We operate 6 well equipped and modern operating theatres with 64 well-presented ensuite rooms.

We cater for inpatient and day care, providing a broad range of surgical specialties and clinics including Paediatrics, Oncology, Interventional Cardiology & Radiology, Orthopaedics, Endoscopy, Gynaecology, Urology, Ophthalmology as well as women’s and men’s health clinics. The hospital is located with excellent transport links by road and rail, both to and from London, Thames Valley, and the Midlands.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

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About Nuffield Health

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Welcome to Nuffield Health, the UK’s leading not-for-profit healthcare organisation*.

As a not-for-profit with no shareholders, we invest all our income back into our family of award-winning 37 hospitals, 114 fitness and wellbeing clubs, healthcare clinics, over 200 workplace wellbeing services, as well as developing flagship collaborations supporting our communities – all to realise our vision to build a healthier nation.

What makes us unique is our unrivalled award winning and industry leading network of health and wellbeing services. Only Nuffield Health has the wide-ranging expertise to provide connected care. We attract some of the best people in their specialist fields, who take a personalised approach so we can provide the best possible care and support now and in the future – wherever they are on their journey. All for the public benefit. So, it’s no surprise that we’re trusted by the NHS, Private Medical Insurers, employers and the general public to provide exceptional health and wellbeing services to the nation.

We’re committed to our vision of building a healthier nation.

Welcome to Nuffield Health. Specialists in you.

* Nuffield Health is a Registered Charity. Our objective is to advance, promote and maintain health and healthcare of all descriptions and to prevent, relieve and cure sickness and ill health of any kind, all for the public benefit. Registered Charity Numbers 205533 (England and Wales) and SC041793 (Scotland).