An exciting opportunity has presented for a pharmacist to join our cancer pharmacy team. We are looking to recruit to the post of Senior Specialist Chemotherapy Pharmacist who will play a pivotal role in managing the pharmacy service provided to cancer patients.
The pharmacy cancer team is well integrated into the cancer directorate and provides a high-quality and progressive pharmacy service to cancer patients. You will have opportunities to develop your general and specialist skills in providing multi-disciplinary Cancer Services.
To maintain and further develop the pharmacy service to cancer patients, we are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated pharmacist to join our lively, progressive and dynamic pharmacy team.
The main day to day responsibilities would include:
• Responsible for evaluating, developing, maintaining, and delivering a specialist clinical pharmacy service and meeting the pharmaceutical care needs for patients with cancer being treated by the Oncologists and the Haematologists at home, within the chemotherapy units or as inpatients across LNWUH sites.
• Participate in the provision of chemotherapy services such as medicines funding, development of chemotherapy protocols and electronic prescribing system.
• Develops and guides audit of medicines use to treat cancer and other supportive medicines and undertakes research as appropriate.
· In addition, the post holder will be an non-medical prescriber and will prescribe chemotherapy for either oncology or haematology patients.
You can also expect structured specialist professional development opportunities to contribute to high level clinical and service delivery projects supported by senior members of the Pharmacy team.
Our ideal candidate will be:
• interested in helping us develop and deliver our vision for a patient-focussed clinical pharmacy service
• able to drive directorate and departmental clinical governance issues, clinical audit, practice research, service improvement projects and more
• keen to further their career within cancer services
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.
This advert closes on Thursday 21 Nov 2024