Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Haematology

Integrated Care System; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An Integrated Care System in Leeds is seeking an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to join their Haematology Pharmacy Team. The role includes managing specialist portfolios, providing clinical pharmacy services to inpatients, and supporting new clinical trials. Ideal candidates will have a GPhC registration and a postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy. This position offers competitive salary packages and opportunities for professional development within a dedicated team.

Qualifications

• Understanding of local and national pharmaceutical and clinical strategies.
• Advanced clinical pharmacy knowledge in a relevant area.
• Non-medical prescriber status.

Responsibilities

• Lead the clinical pharmacy service for haematology patients.
• Manage financial and drug budget reports.
• Provide training and supervision to pharmacy staff.

Skills

Team player

Attention to detail

Leadership skills

Education

Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy

Registrant of the GPhC

Job description

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Haematology

Anexciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated and motivated pharmacist tojoin the Haematology Pharmacy Team as an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist atLeeds Teaching Hospitals.

Asthe haematology service grows we have been supported with extra funding togrow our specialist pharmacy team. The successful post holder would take onthe management of one of our speciality portfolios (ChronicLymphoproliferative Disorder's) whilst in addition providing clinicalpharmacy services to the full range of haematology in and outpatients as partof the wider team.

Weare looking for someone who is able to manage a dynamic and changing workloadproviding oversight to a specific sub speciality of Haematology. The postholder will be expected to utilise skills around medicines governance,finance and clinical trials.

Inaddition, the successful candidate would be responsible for the validation ofSystemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) and inputting to pharmaceutical care onour specialist inpatient wards. All additional training requirements would becovered using our structured SACT verification training programme.

Experiencewith SACT is desirable but certainly not essential. There are lots of skillswhich can be brought from other specialties to support you in this role.

Main duties of the job

-Provide an advanced clinical pharmacy service to our inpatient wardsincluding those receiving inpatient Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT)

-Validation of SACT across a range of sub specialities

-Support the review and setup of new clinical trials added to the haematologyportfolio as well as management of amendments to existing ones.

-Utilisation of the ChemoCare prescribing system to setup both trial andnon-trial treatment templates for use in the Leeds Cancer Centre

-Attendance at speciality meetings and/or MDTs

-Support the implementation of new anti-cancer treatments within the postholders designated area of practice

-Support Drug & Therapeutics processes for individual and cohortapplications for the unlicensed use of medicines

-Undertake finance reporting to support the best value for medicinesagenda

-Provide training and supervision to colleagues in the cancer team and acrosspharmacy

-Supervise and line manage a junior pharmacist within the cancer servicespharmacy team

About us

Thehaematology pharmacy team work together on a daily basis to ensure that someof our most complex and challenging treatments within Leeds TeachingHospitals are delivered safely, efficiently and in a patient centered manner.Our team is made up of some highly experienced pharmacists who have strongworking relationships with the wider multi-disciplinary team.

Anynew starter to the team receives a thorough induction drawing on the years ofexperience possessed by our pharmacists and technicians within variousspecialist fields.

Wehave a strong ethos of workforce development. We strive to ensure that allmembers of the team are able to access development opportunities not solelylimited to clinical work as well as the facilitation of regular team basedclinical education sessions.

LeedsTeaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job advertsare subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or removeadverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in theshortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while thisprocess is completed, and contact the named contact if you have anyquestions.

Job responsibilities

Clinical

Lead the highly specialisedclinical pharmacy service to patients and the multidisciplinary team within agiven clinical speciality.

Supports the Trust's PrescribingStandards and challenges practice where prescribers have not adhered to theMedicines Code.

Demonstrate the ability to providesafe, clinically effective and cost-effective use of medicines in accordancewith Trust policy, standard operating procedures and medicine legislation.This will include individual prescription review to optimise therapy,advising on dosage and side effects and on safe administration of medicines.The post holder is expected to determine how the outcomes are best achieve inspecific circumstances.

Pharmacists who are registered asprescribers will, with the agreement of the clinical director of thespeciality, prescribe within their level of competence, to support patientcare.

Plan, manage, monitor and reviewindividual patient care plans.

Participate in consultant wardrounds and multi-disciplinary team meetings.

Manage difficult and ambiguousproblems, often when information is limited.

Undertake risk management,including investigating clinical incidents in the clinical area and ensuringcompliance with medicine legislation.

The post holder will be expected toidentify, where necessary, areas that require service changes and develop astrategy to carry out the change through consultation with senior colleagueswithin and outside the pharmacy.

Manage the introduction of newdrugs, including unlicensed drugs, into the clinical speciality.

Manage the clinical pharmacistinput into clinical trials.

Develop and update policies for thesafe, effective and economic use of medicines through discussion with medicaland nursing staff.

Communication with Primary Careabout medicines policies or guidelines specific for their area of practice.

Management

Monitor and interpret expenditureon medicines within own clinical speciality. Provide the Directorate withregular reports to assist in the management of the drug budget

a. Attend the monthly ClinicalSpeciality Management meetings to advise on medicine use and financialimplications

- Horizon scan for new drugs andadvise the clinical speciality meetings on the financial implications

b. Co-ordinate Medicines Use SavingsProjects

c. Review prescribing data fromout-patient clinics

Contribution to financialinitiatives

Write or respond to business casesfor service development to secure additional funding.

Responsible for day to daysupervision / management of specialist clinical pharmacists in clinicalspeciality (some staff)

Researchand Education

Occasionally participates inresearch and development within clinical speciality

Undertakes own research/auditwithin clinical speciality

Supervise, teach, and assess juniorpharmacy staff completing training modules within the clinical area. Thisinput varies, mostly based on the experience of the post holder, and willtypically include:

- Acting as a trainer topre-registration and junior pharmacists in their area of specialist practice

- Being a named tutor for apre-registration and/or diploma pharmacist

- Lecturing on clinical issuesrelevant to the specialty, as part of the pre-registration training program,the clinical diploma, and any other in service training.

The post holder is also expected toparticipate in the training of other clinical professionals within theirspecialist area as requested.

Develop the role of a specialistpharmacist through national links.

Person Specification

Experience

• Understanding and appreciation of local and national pharmaceutical and clinical strategies
• Understanding of NHS/government policy and its applications
• Skills around team dynamics and effective leadership strategies to optimise performance
• Advanced clinical pharmacy knowledge in a relevant area (does not need to be Cancer/Haematology)

Skills & behaviours

• Team player
• Self motivated
• Able to work under own initiative
• Be highly adaptive to changing circumstances and situations
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Highly developed influencing and negotiating skills

Qualifications

• Registrant of the GPhC
• Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
• Non medical prescriber status

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.