University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has presented for a pharmacist with clinical cancer experience to join our cancer pharmacy team. This post is a permanent position within the haematology team to work closely with the Senior Cancer Pharmacists to manage the growing service.
As a world-leading research facility and one of the largest haematology tertiary referral centres, you will collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver cutting edge licensed and clinical trials to malignant and non-malignant haematology patients.
As a registered pharmacist, you will provide a person-centred approach to care, and manage specialist pharmacy services to haematology patients undergoing systemic anti-cancer treatment (SACT) or haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for malignant and non-malignant indications. You will collaborate with the Senior Clinical Pharmacist to improve the pharmacy service for these patients and educate pharmacy and multidisciplinary staff on these innovative treatments.
The UCLH Cancer Pharmacy Team is a large team across oncology, haematology and transplantation and works well together. Our ideal candidate will:
1. Help us develop and deliver our vision for a person-centred clinical pharmacy service.
2. Drive directorate and departmental clinical governance issues, clinical audit, practice research, service improvement projects and more.
3. Be keen to further their career within cancer services.
Main duties of the job
The main day-to-day responsibilities would include:
1. To provide highly specialised and complex evidence-based clinical advice and information to the multidisciplinary team on the care and treatment of malignant and non-malignant haematology patients.
2. To deliver and promote high-quality, cost-effective, patient-focused pharmaceutical care.
3. To provide clinical pharmacy services to malignant and non-malignant haematology patients.
4. To promote the safe and secure handling of medicines and clinical governance in the Cancer Division.
5. To support the training and development of cancer pharmacists in the field of haematology.
6. To support the opening and management of malignant and non-malignant haematology clinical trials.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Qualifications
* Master degree in Pharmacy, or equivalent.
* Pharmacist Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
* Undertaking or completed a Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent experience and expertise.
* Evidence of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training.
* Independent prescriber, or willingness to undertake an independent prescribing qualification.
Experience
* Minimum two years post-registration experience as a clinical pharmacist in hospital.
* Broad knowledge of clinical pharmacy practice.
* Experience of pharmacy clinical practice in the hospital inpatient setting.
* Experience of verifying prescriptions for systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT).
* Experience in haematology clinical practice.
* Actively seeks to improve the ward and clinical services provided to enhance quality of care to patients.
* Participation in multidisciplinary health services research.
Skills and Abilities
* Effective time management and demonstrates the ability to meet deadlines.
* Excellent ability to prioritise workload and work accurately under pressure without direct supervision.
* Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* IT literate, including use of spreadsheets to capture and manipulate data, search for evidence-based practice, presenting complex information.
* Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the principles of clinical governance.
* Demonstrates awareness of research evidence in practice.
* Able to identify risks and develop risk management procedures.
Communication
* Demonstrates clinical knowledge, reasoning, and judgment, manages difficult and ambiguous problems.
* Able to communicate complex, contentious, and sensitive information effectively when using clear written and spoken English.
* Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels both within and beyond pharmacy and the trust.
Personal and People Development
* Commitment to continually update skills, knowledge, and expertise; and maintain a portfolio of practice.
* Experience of delivering education and training programmes for pharmacy and multi-disciplinary staff.
* Ability to delegate authority appropriately.
Ensure the risk of infection to self, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors is minimised by:
* Being familiar with, and adhering to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control.
* Completing all required training and education (both via e-learning and face to face) on infection prevention and control.
* Including infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development and included in your annual appraisal.
* Taking personal responsibility so far as is reasonably practicable, in helping ensure that effective prevention and control of health care associated infections is embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Salary: £54,320 to £60,981 a year Per Annum Inclusive of HCAS
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