Advanced Pharmacist Surgical Emergency Unit

Advanced Pharmacist Surgical Emergency Unit

The closing date is 20 July 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and experienced surgical pharmacist to join our dynamic team as the Lead Pharmacist for the Surgical Emergency Unit. In this role, you will lead a team of junior pharmacists, contributing to their development and performance. You will also work closely with the Surgery Directorate Lead Pharmacist to further develop and enhance clinical pharmacy services across the Surgery Directorate.

Based on Level 6 of the John Radcliffe Hospital, the Surgical Emergency Unit includes three inpatient wards, a triage area, and an Ambulatory Unit. You will be a key member of both the surgery directorate pharmacy team and emergency surgery leadership team and MDT, leading on peri-operative medicines management and supporting clinical governance. The post-holder may also be asked to support the elective surgery team at the Churchill Hospital as service needs require.

This post offers fantastic scope to develop your leadership, mentoring and service development skills in a supportive environment, with opportunities to engage in research and innovation. You will also play a vital role in strengthening communication and collaboration between pharmacy and clinical teams.

• Lead the development and delivery of high-quality peri-operative and clinical pharmacy services to the Surgical Emergency Unit, whilst supporting wider service development across the Surgery Directorate.
• Drive the Trust's Quality Priority on Medicines Reconciliation at transitions of care, with a focus on pathway development in surgical ambulatory and triage areas.
• Collaborate with the Surgery Directorate Lead Pharmacist and the Surgical Emergency leadership team to implement an integrated pharmacy prescribing service, enhancing medicines management and patient flow.
• Strengthen partnerships between Pharmacy, Surgery, and Anaesthetics to promote a cohesive and collaborative culture.
• Develop and maintain near-patient dispensing services to support patient medicines education, timely discharges, and cost-effective medicines use.
• Provide line management, support and development for Specialist and Foundation pharmacists within the Surgery Directorate team.
• Actively contribute to both the pharmacy and clinical directorate teams, ensuring effective two-way communication to uphold safe and effective medicines use across the Trust.

• First degree in Pharmacy (Masters) or equivalent
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Post-Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent experience
• Leadership qualification or training
• RPS Credentialing
• Coaching qualification
• Human Factors Training
• MSc in Clinical Pharmacy

• Broad clinical pharmacy provision in a number of different clinical areas or sectors
• Working with senior clinicians and managers
• Understanding of medication funding streams, drug usage and expenditure reports and use of financial reports to influence business cases and clinical practice
• Delivering quality improvements
• Medicines management policy development and implementation
• Change management at a team level
• Risk management and investigation of incidents
• Recent clinical experience in the specialism
• Line management
• Clinical tutor for postgraduate diploma
• Leading a team
• Working across organisational boundaries
• Recognition as an expert in a relevant clinical field at Trust level

Permanent

Full-time, flexible working, home or remote working, compressed hours

£57,528 to £64,750 a year (pro rata)

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.