Job Title: Specialist Pharmacist
Location: Nuffield Health Tunbridge Wells Hospital
Employment Type: Permanent | Full Time
Salary: Up to £52,500.00 per annum, depending on skills and experience
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Our Pharmacy team at Nuffield Health Hospital Tunbridge Wells currently have an exciting opportunity for a pharmacist with a specialist interest in oncology and the peri-operative management of elective surgical patients.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced, and self-motivated pharmacist to integrate with the Pharmacy team and oncology/surgical multi-disciplinary teams to deliver an outstanding level of service to our oncology, haemato-oncology, and elective surgical patients.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Deliver a high-quality clinical pharmacy service within Nuffield Health Hospital Tunbridge Wells to oncology, haemato-oncology, and elective surgical patients, in line with current government, NICE, and BOPA guidelines.
2. Undertake medicines reconciliation, organise discharge medications, and provide drug information and clinical counselling to patients.
3. Maintain pharmaceutical care plans for all oncology and haemato-oncology patients.
4. Verify and screen SACT treatment prescriptions, inpatient prescription charts, discharge, and outpatient prescriptions.
5. Support and advise clinicians on safe prescribing within oncology, haemato-oncology, and peri-operative medicine.
6. Coordinate the administration and delivery of SACT treatments to patients, maintaining effective communication with the Pharmacy dispensary.
7. Develop protocols and guidelines for SACT treatment.
8. Order SACT in readiness for patient treatment.
9. Educate and train colleagues in support of their development with oncology competencies.
10. Liaise with other Nuffield Hospital oncology sites to share knowledge and expertise.
11. Attend meetings with pharmacy and other oncology leads within the Nuffield Health group on a regular basis, implementing changes to policy and procedure locally.
Skills & Experience:
1. UK Registered Pharmacist with General Pharmaceutical Council (Essential).
2. At least 4-5 years of post-qualification experience.
3. Experience of supervising and training other staff.
4. Post-qualification experience within oncology and haemato-oncology and the ability to screen and verify oncology and haemato-oncology regimes and prescriptions (Essential).
5. Post-qualification experience in the provision of a ward-based clinical pharmacy service is desirable but not essential, as full training will be provided.
6. Knowledge of relevant hospital policies and procedures.
7. Excellent communication and people skills, essential for working closely with patients and a variety of clinical staff.
Oncology experience is essential for this role, and further training within this clinical specialty will be encouraged and supported.
Benefits:
We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy, and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind, including free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts, and pension options.
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About Us
Nuffield Health is the UK’s largest healthcare charity. For over 60 years, we’ve been working to make the UK fitter, healthier, happier, and stronger. All for the public benefit.
We do this through our family of 31 award-winning hospitals, 113 fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics, and over 100 workplace wellbeing services.
As a charity, we invest all our income back into our services, pioneering improvements in care, and investing in our flagship programmes, which have been developed to help people who could normally afford or access our services.
It's all part of our mission to give everyone the care they need and to build a healthier nation.
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