Employer: The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 11/03/2025 23:59
Advanced Pharmacist - Clinical Trials
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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Job overview
We are looking for a motivated and driven pharmacist, who is passionate about working with innovative clinical trials medicines which will be part of cancer medicines of tomorrow. You will become our Advanced Pharmacist – Clinical Trials, you will have an independent work load but will have full support from our Principal Pharmacist for Clinical Trials who will be able to support you to help our patients gain access to clinical trials.
There are opportunities to specialise clinically in a tumour specific area in solid tumour services.
The Pharmacy clinical trials team is dedicated to implementing and ensuring our clinical trials are available.
You will support the Trustwide implementation of clinical trials, liaising closely with aseptic services, MDT colleagues from clinical services, procurement and our wholly owned subsidiary, PharmaC.
You will be working within the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, providing 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. It is an exciting time for pharmacy as we have moved into our purpose built hospital, with state of the art aseptic facilities.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will work alongside a clinical trials and R&D team, bringing new innovative treatments into practice, reviewing ongoing amendments to trials and working closely with the research practitioners.
* Provide clinical, professional and technical expertise to support the delivery, development and monitoring of high quality patient-focused pharmacy services to oncology patients at the Clatterbridge-Liverpool site.
* Provide highly specialised clinical pharmacy services to cancer services.
* Support the implementation of clinical trials chemotherapy electronic prescribing to the oncology service.
* Provide medicines optimisation services including dispensary duties, ward cover and aseptic release cover when required.
Working pattern will be 37.5 hours per week. Late duty, weekends, bank holidays and on-call will be part of the post.
Prior experience in oncology or haematology is not required as a full clinical grounding will be provided if required.
Working for our organisation
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 2.4 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.
Detailed job description and main 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
Qualifications
* Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degree or equivalent.
* Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent.
* Oncology Qualification Diploma or equivalent.
* Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and undertaking faculty submission.
* Good Clinical Practice.
Knowledge and Expertise
* Good pharmaceutical knowledge.
* Knowledge of changing NHS environment & government initiatives.
* Evidence of managing a changing situation.
* Oncology pharmacy practice experience.
* Knowledge of current & future developments in cancer treatment.
Experience
* Experience in supervising/mentoring less experienced members of the pharmacy team.
* Oncology pharmacy practice experience.
* Clinical trials experience.
Contact Information
Name: Jenny Altham
Job title: Principal Pharmacist - Clinical Trials
Email address: jennifer.altham@nhs.net
Telephone number: 0151 318 8043
You can also contact Ben Woodhouse, Deputy Director of Pharmacy 0151 318 8712.
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