Job summary
Due to maternity leave in the department an exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic pharmacist to come and lead a specialist clinical areas of cancer care in our growing team!
Prior experience in cancer care in not required as you will be fully supported and trained by our friendly, dedicated team; you do require a thirst to learn, a passion to deliver excellent patient centered care and transferrable leadership experience.
Clatterbridge is an exciting place to continue your clinical pharmacy journey in a purpose built city centre hospital in Liverpool with state of the art facilities, working within a cutting edge clinical environment. This role represents an opportunity to develop and further progress in the rewarding specialty that is cancer care. The successful candidates will also receive mentoring and support to grow as a leader.
Clatterbridge Cancer Centre provides excellent cancer care to patients across the North West (including North Wales and the Isle of Man). We have 3 site locations; the central Liverpool site and hub sites in the Wirral and Aintree.
Working pattern will be hours per week which includes weekends. Contribution to the Bank holiday and on-call rota will be part of the post. For a detailed list of our employee benefits, please see the attached documents to this vacancy.
Main duties of the job
In this role you will work alongside medical and nursing colleagues, as part of the MDT to lead the provision of patient facing pharmaceutical care on wards and in outpatient clinics within a specialty. You will be an integral part of your specialty oncology team as well as the wider pharmacy team and will be involved in clinical trials and research within your chosen specialty. There will be opportunities to develop and lead pharmacist prescribing clinics in those specialties who do not currently have this service. We have opportunities to specialise in and lead areas such as; breast, lung, colorectal, upper GI, gynaecology, urology, skin, CNS.
You will also have the opportunity to work within the Aseptic Production Unit, quality assessing and releasing chemotherapy.
We can offer you;
1. The opportunity to undertake a non medical prescribing qualification if you do not already have this qualification
2. Fully structured training and support to develop expertise in cancer care
3. Mentorship and formal leadership training
4. Development of management skills through line management
5. Development of education and training through delivery of teaching to the MDT and mentorship you can deliver to junior pharmacists
6. The opportunity to work at the forefront of exciting new treatments and technologies, being involved in trials ongoing in your clinical area.
7. A supportive environment with opportunities to progress and further your career.
About us
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is one of three specialist cancer centres in England. With 1,800 specialist staff and three sites, we are one of the largest NHS providers of non-surgical cancer treatment. The Trust has a unique multi-site care model serving the million population across Cheshire and Merseyside and is consistently rated by patients as one of the best performing hospitals.
Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do.
Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.
We are -
Kind
Empowered
Responsible
Inclusiv e
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details about this exciting role on offer at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Expertise
Essential
8. Good change management
9. Good pharmaceutical knowledge
10. Knowledge of changing NHS environment & government initiatives
11. Demonstrable appropriate post qualification hospital experience
Desirable
12. Evidence of managing a changing situation
13. Oncology pharmacy practice experience.
14. Knowledge of current & future developments in cancer treatment.
Experience
Essential
15. Post qualification hospital experience
16. Experience in supervising/ mentoring less experienced pharmacists
Desirable
17. Oncology pharmacy practice experience.
Qualifications
Essential
18. Master of Pharmacy or equivalent
19. MRPharmS
20. Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council
21. Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable
22. Independent Prescriber