We have an amazing opportunity for a Pharmacy Manager to join a private hospital in Oxford.

Salary up to £57,750

Role of a Pharmacy Manager:

• Provide leadership and advice on medicines management to ensure that processes across all clinical departments throughout the hospital are safe, cost effective and legal and are supported by up-to-date policies, procedures and guidelines. This will include chairing the Medicines Management Forum on a quarterly basis.
• Be responsible for leading, motivating and effectively managing the pharmacy team by providing excellent leadership.
• 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 audit of this in conjunction with the IP nurse/nurse team.
• Ensuring the pharmacy team undertake 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 etc.
• Assist and leading 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 and in facilitating timely and informed discharge of patients returning to primary care.
• Lead on the implementation of medication safety alerts and drug recalls for the hospital working closely with the Director of Clinical Services.
• Implement and monitor DoH guidance on all aspects of controlled drugs use in the hospital and ensure the CD audit is completed quarterly.
• Ensure errors, complaints and incidents are managed in line with the hospitals Health guidelines, specifically reporting these using the RADAR system and reviewing/investigating relevant RADAR reports relating to medicines.
• Support the development of other healthcare professionals.

Requirements for a Pharmacy Manager:

• Previous experience as a Pharmacy Manager
• Experience leading a team.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in a Senior Post

If this sounds like the role for you, please click APPLY or contact Isma at Xander Medical directly on (phone number removed).

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