Pharmacy Manager

Salary: GBP57000 - GBP60000 per annum + gym & healthcare

Pharmacy Manager

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

Up to £60,000 per annum, depending on experience *

* We are happy to accommodate applications from outside Oxford and can offer a generous relocation package

37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health, the UK’s 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. Join our journey. It starts with you.

As a Pharmacy Manager, you will:

1. Provide leadership and advice on medicines management to ensure that processes across all clinical departments throughout the hospital are safe, cost-effective, and legal, supported by up-to-date policies, procedures, and guidelines. This will include chairing the Medicines Management Forum on a quarterly basis.
2. Be responsible for leading, motivating, and effectively managing the pharmacy team by providing excellent leadership.
3. 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 audits in conjunction with the IP nurse/nurse team.
4. Ensure the pharmacy team undertakes 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.
5. Assist and lead 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.
6. Lead on the implementation of medication safety alerts and drug recalls for the hospital, working closely with the Director of Clinical Services.
7. Implement and monitor DoH guidance on all aspects of controlled drugs use in the hospital and ensure the CD audit is completed quarterly.
8. Ensure errors, complaints, and incidents are managed in line with Nuffield Health guidelines, specifically reporting these using the RADAR system and reviewing/investigating relevant RADAR reports relating to medicines.
9. Support the development of other healthcare professionals and deliver medicines-focused training upon request.

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. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health, and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts, and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

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

Applications will be considered as they are received, and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Therefore, please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post.