Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To provide additional senior pharmacy leadership for the Trustwide PN transformation project, delivering safe, standardised and financially sustainable PN services across adult, paediatric and neonatal pathways.2. To lead implementation of the PN improvement programme across a range of strategies including increased pre-ordering, appropriate use of standard off-the-shelf PN bags, restricted formulary development for less complicated Type 1 PN patients, and reduction of avoidable waste, duplicate orders and late ordering charges.3. To work across Divisions, CSS Pharmacy, Digital, Finance, Procurement, Commissioning and Clinical nutrition teams to deliver a coordinated programme of change with clear governance, milestones, benefits tracking and risk management.4. To build effective operational processes that improve accountability for PN expenditure, improve invoice reconciliation and coding accuracy, and support delivery of forecast Cost Improvement Programme and invest-to-save benefits.5. To support safer and more timely PN provision by reducing delays in treatment, improving ordering discipline and reducing delayed discharges associated with PN ordering or supply processes.6. To lead engagement with adult, paediatric and neonatal PN stakeholders, including intestinal failure teams, surgery, critical care, urology, transplant, paediatric and neonatal services, ensuring service changes are clinically appropriate and operationally deliverable.7. To develop and implement standardised PN ordering, approval, formulary and monitoring processes that support appropriate patient selection, safe prescribing and consistent supply arrangements.8. To oversee the delivery of digital improvements required to create an end-to-end PN ordering, tracking and reporting process, working with pharmacy digital colleagues and operational users to ensure safe adoption.9. To support and deputise for the Consultant Nutrition Pharmacist to manage and strategically lead and co-ordinate the adult nutrition pharmacy team in the provision of a safe, effective and efficient clinical pharmacy service to the Gastroenterology, Endoscopy & Theatres (GET) Directorate, in accordance with local and national standards and strategy.10. To ensure the safe and effective use of PN across the Trust through provision of medicine related aspects of patient care, promoting economy and improvements in quality, safety and cost effectiveness, and medicines optimisation.11. To provide leadership, supervision and workstream coordination for project resources, including pharmacy, digital and analyst support, ensuring roles, outputs and dependencies are clear.12. To produce regular reports for the SRO, divisional leadership, finance, pharmacy governance groups and relevant committees, demonstrating progress against financial, workforce, activity, quality and safety metrics.

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications and training

Essential

• Degree in Pharmacy (Masters) or equivalent
• Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Post-Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent experience
• Experience of working as a clinical pharmacist at a high level in PN
• Proven experience of working at a strategic level with senior clinicians and managers and experience of working in an integrated directorate team
• Experience and proven ability in project manangement

Desirable

• Good information technology skill
• Experience of implementing CIP or other cost reduction programmes

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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UK Registration

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

John Radcliffe Hospital

Headley Way, Headington

Oxford

OX3 9DU

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)