Cancer and Clinical Services Pharmacist

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Clinical and Cancer services pharmacist is a rotational position designed to develop pharmacists by enhancing their knowledge and skills, and providing the depth of experience required to progress towards more senior specialised posts in Cancer Pharmacy.

Pharmacists will work within the clinical pharmacy and multidisciplinary teams to ensure the safe and clinically effective use of medicines for inpatients, day care units, and clinics within the Trust.

Pharmacists will be expected to act as professional role models and mentors for our more junior pharmacist team, ensuring their clinical practice, values an behaviours meet the high standards of our department and the wider organisation.

Rotations can include:

- Oncology

- Haemato-oncology

- Private Care

- Paediatric oncology/Teenagers and Young Adult (TYA) services

This role will also be supported to develop focused clinical knowledge and skills within sub-specialties, such as:
• Haemato-oncology (Myeloma, Lymphoma and Leukaemia)
• Childhood cancer
• GI cancer
• Breast Cancer
• Urology and Gynaecological cancers
• Lung Cancer
• Skin and Sarcoma

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• GPhC Registration
• MSc/ Diploma Pharmacy Practice or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• Registered non-medical prescriber or willing to work towards this qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Post registration NHS hospital experience
• Experience in delivering a clinical pharmacy service to wards / day units
• Clinical audit and quality/service improvement projects

Desirable criteria

• Oncology/Haematology Pharmacy experience
• Experience of delivering education & training to staff and students

Skills Abilities/knowledge

Essential criteria

• Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Ability to work alone without direct supervision when required
• Excellent time management and organisational skills, ability to prioritise effectively & meet deadlines
• Excellent communication skills (written & verbal)
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment whilst maintaining attention to detail and accuracy at all times
• Ability to safely clinically screen prescriptions/drug charts
• Ability to train other members of staff
• Recognises limitations of own professional competence.
• Awareness of current developments in clinical pharmacy
• Ability to use an electronic prescribing system and supporting software to complete clinical pharmacist tasks on a daily basis.

Other Requirements

Essential criteria

• Adaptable to change: flexible to meet the needs of the role
• Professional, act as a role model and uphold GPhC standards for pharmacy professionals
• Good leadership qualities: able to take responsibility & delegate effectively
• Acts upon feedback for both own practice and the pharmacy service
• Enthusiastic and approachable
• Upholds the RM Trust core values
• Able to work at all Royal Marsden sites
• Ability to participate in out of hours service and 7 day working

The Royal Marsden values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. We advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment. Please ensure your information is accurate to avoid errors with processing your application

All applicants will be contacted by email to the address supplied on your application. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly and to ensure that email filters are set to allow our emails.

Flu Vaccination - What We Expect of our Staff

At The Royal Marsden we have an immune compromised patient population who we must protect as much as we can against the flu virus. Each year, seasonal flu affects thousands of people in the UK. Occurring mainly in winter, it is an infectious respiratory disease capable of producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a common cold, through to very severe or even fatal disease.

The wellbeing of our staff and patients is of the upmost importance to us, and it is the expectation of The Royal Marsden that all patient-facing staff have an annual flu vaccination, provided free of charge by the Trust.

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