Advanced Pharmacist - Clinical Services | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 14 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £61,631 - £68,623 pro rata pa inc |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 13 September 2025 |
| Location: | Dartford, DA2 7AN |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7404149/277-7404149-CORP |
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced, enthusiastic, and self-motivated pharmacist to join our team that provides services to support medicines use in our inpatient settings and also to support community health services.
Working under the leadership of the pharmacy clinical team leader, the post holder will help to develop and provide an advanced clinical pharmacy service to inpatient services across the Trust.
They will also help to support the Community Services Pharmacist, lead on writing and reviewing Patient Group Directions and support service managers to monitor and implement these.
The post holder will also participate in the medicines information and other internal rotas. The post holder will be based in the pharmacy at the Bracton campus but working across a number of Trust sites.
For further information call Elizabeth Bevan (Clinical Pharmacy Team Leader, Inpatient Mental Health Services) on 01322 625762.
Informal visits welcome.
Overview of the post:
· The post holder will participate in the provision of dispensary and clinical pharmacy services to the Trust, including the pharmacy emergency on-call service. The postholder will provide clinical supervision to junior pharmacists and will also support community health services in partnership with the community health service pharmacist.
The post holder must have the ability to drive (hold a full valid UK driving licence)and access to a car to meet the requirements of this role.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust: Bracton Campus—Pharmacy Department
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust provides a wide range of mental health and community health services. These include acute adult and elderly mental health units and community teams based at a number of locations in Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich boroughs, and an intermediate care unit based at Queen Mary’s Hospital (QMH), Sidcup.
The Trust has dispensaries located at QMH and the Bracton campus, Dartford; both are registered with the GPhC and the QMH pharmacy store holds a wholesale dealers’ licence. Within Oxleas, clinical pharmacists are an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, with regular ward attendance and provision of a medicines information service which includes a patient telephone advice line.
Pharmacy also provide support to patients within the community, including to Community Mental Health teams and a home assessment Medicines Optimisation service to patients within Bromley.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
1. To develop and provide an advanced clinical pharmacy service to inpatient services across the Trust and measure associated outcomes.
· To be a leader for improving patients experience of medicines use i.e., provision of information and advice about treatment options, side-effects, on-going monitoring
· To ensure compliance with clinical governance standards for medicines management, in accordance with overall professional guidance and NHS policy
· Propose policy changes for own specialist area, which may impact on other disciplines.
· Supporting the Pharmacy Team leader and deputy to ensure provision of clinical pharmacy services is maintained consistently.
2. Supporting the Community Services Pharmacist, lead on writing and reviewing Patient Group Directions and support service managers to monitor and implement these.
3. To assess patients for medicines nonadherence and clinical issues, recommending and implementing interventions to overcome any identified problems
4. When appropriate, to review medicines reconciliation, and using clinical judgement solve any clinical problems identified
5. Provide clinically sound, evaluated information in response to a wide variety of complex enquiries from all grades of health care professionals and service users accessing the service
6. To advise consultants and other clinicians with respect to the pharmacological management of complex cases; this requires decisions to be taken where there is a lack of evidence, or the evidence is conflicting
7. To provide advice to patients about how to take their medicines and address any concerns they may have
8. To support carers with any concerns or practical problems around the use of medicines
9. To follow-up to ensure that the interventions that have been put in place have been successful
10. To work with the pharmacy patient safety-lead to implement medicines safety initiatives.
11. To participate in the recruitment and selection of junior pharmacists
12. To participate in the dispensary rota, undertaking the following duties with minimal supervision
· professional responsibility for clinical screening of all prescriptions to ensure the accuracy, legality, safety and efficacy of prescribed medication.
· liaising with doctors and nurses to resolve any queries arising from the screening process.
· undertaking the final accuracy check on prescriptions dispensed by other pharmacy staff.
13. To participate in the medicines information rota, providing clinically sound, evaluated information in response to a wide variety of complex enquiries from all grades of health care professionals and service users.
14. To participate in clinical quality improvement projects as required, including feedback and action planning
15. To participate in departmental clinical meetings.
16. To participate in the Trust medicines management induction programme for all new clinical staff.
17. To be responsible for planning and organising own workload in accordance with the requirements of the job.
18. To participate in the pharmacy emergency on-call service.
19. To undertake any other relevant duties, as may be required by the Chief Pharmacist.
This advert closes on Tuesday 2 Sep 2025
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