Band 7 Rotational Pharmacist | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 29 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 Per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 November 2025 |
| Location: | Oxford, OX3 9DU |
| Company: | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7491070/321-CSS-7491070-B7-PUB |
Summary
Building on your foundation knowledge, experience and skills, you will be working in a dynamic and rewarding setting to deliver compassionate excellence. As a specialist pharmacist you will grow in all four pillars of practice in order to prepare for an advanced practice role.
In this post, you will have 12-month rotations across a range of clinical areas. The one year rotation allows you ample opportunity to be become integrated in each new clinical area and expand your expertise and skillset, to mentor others, be involved in service development or
research and to put your management and leadership skills into action in a supportive setting. The post holders should ensure timely, effective, two-way exchange of information between the pharmacy team and the clinical area as well as maintaining high standards of medicines
management. Each rotation has a specific set of objectives which will be shared prior to annual rotation selection and agreed at the start of the rotation.
Direct Patient Care
1. Deliver compassionate excellence via a patient focused clinical pharmacy service,in accordance withnational medicinesoptimisationprinciples and local clinical pharmacy procedures.
1. Analyse prescriptions, alongside technical resources, patient records and information from patient consults to form an opinion on the mostappropriate courseof action.
1. Accurately and sensitively communicate medicines related information to a variety of healthcare professionals and patients including those with language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities, in a way thatfacilitatesshared decision making.
1. Optimisetransfer of patient care, thoughtimelycompletion of medicines reconciliation andcommunication withGPs andcommunity pharmacy teams.
1. Participate in and promote antimicrobial stewardship,medicinessafety, andmedicineseffectiveness initiatives.
1. Where relevant to a rotation complete training in clinical trials and support the supply of investigational medicinal products.
1. Where a scope of practice has beenidentifiedwithin a rotation, train to become a NMP and when registered with theGPhCand the OUH to prescribe within the Trust’s policy for Non-medical Prescribing.
1. Support OUHdispensaries, andliaise withexternal agencies(Such as aseptic production services or homecare providers)to ensure safe,timelyandappropriate supplyof medicationsto patients.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis 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 theOUH 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 .
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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Nov 2025
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