Advanced Pharmacist - Cancer

NHS; Derby; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking an Advanced Pharmacist to join their Cancer Pharmacist Team. The role involves providing clinical services, managing pharmacy staff, and supporting patient care in a hybrid model. This position is crucial for enhancing cancer care delivery and requires strong leadership and clinical skills.

Benefits

Development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Qualifications

• Substantial post-registration hospital practice experience.
• Wide-ranging clinical pharmacy experience.
• Demonstrates awareness of clinical governance agenda.

Responsibilities

• Providing leadership to the cancer pharmacy team.
• Managing and supervising the duties of pharmacists and technicians.
• Participating in multidisciplinary ward rounds.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Clinical Reasoning

Analytical Skills

Education

PG Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

Higher degree e.g. Masters, DPharm or management

Job description

Go back University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Advanced Pharmacist - Cancer

The closing date is 20 May 2025

The Cancer Pharmacist Team at UHDB has long held a high reputation for their proactive and innovative work, effective use of cutting-edge technology, and an unparalleled responsiveness to implementing new treatments into the Trust.

Working across multiple sites, the team has embraced true collaborative cross-site working, providing exceptional care to patients undergoing chemotherapy in an outpatient and inpatient setting.

The team also comprises of several non-medical prescribers supporting clinicians in chemotherapy clinics, independently prescribing SACT, managing toxicities and providing support and advice to patients. Their contribution to the service has reduced clinician workload, reduced waiting times, and improved patient experience.

The Trust has recognised the significant and meaningful impact the cancer pharmacist team has on cancer care delivery, and approval of 1WTE of this post is a result of a successful workforce bid.

The successful post holders will operate within a hybrid-role model, consolidating traditional pharmacist duties with non-medical prescribing, with 0.5WTE dedicated to each aspect of the role.

Please note this is a cross-site post, and successful post holders will be expected to work across Royal Derby Hospital and Queens Burton Hospital as required.

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities will include:

• Providing leadership to the cancer pharmacy team.
• Managing and supervising the duties of pharmacists, pre-registration pharmacists and technicians within the team
• Providing a high-quality clinical ward-based service.
• Participating in multidisciplinary ward rounds.
• Clinically checking chemotherapy prescriptions.
• Supporting the Clinical Trials team in the screening of chemotherapy prescriptions
• Answering and advising on drug related queries.
• Preparing analysis and commentary on drug expenditure and service delivery models.
• Project management to support service redesign.
• Supporting the management of the Trust chemotherapy e-prescribing system (ChemoCare)
• Participating in Chemotherapy Governance meetings
• Participating in the delivery of chemotherapy checking competency training to junior colleagues
• Participating in teaching within the multidisciplinary team
• Supporting the Divisional Lead Pharmacist in shaping the direction of the team, in line with divisional objectives
• Once qualification obtained, support outpatient chemotherapy clinics as a non-medical prescriber:
  • Clinically assess patient for suitability for chemotherapy
  • Advise and counsel patients on best us of medication
  • Manage toxicities and provide holistic support
• Attend MDTs related to chosen speciality
• Take part in research and development projects to improve patient experience and service delivery

Closing date of applications: 20 May 2025

Interview date: 3 June 2025

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Communication and Relationships

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to communicate with a broad spectrum of people
• Ability to influence senior and junior healthcare and commissioning staff
• Demonstrable leadership skills
• Training in influencing and negotiating skills
• Training in leadership skills

Knowledge, training and experience

• PG Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
• Substantial post-registration hospital practice experience including experience in specialist clinical pharmacy practice
• Wide-ranging clinical pharmacy experience and expert knowledge and ability to use research findings to develop services and patient care
• Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to clinical governance agenda
• Membership of other organisations (e.g. RPS, BOPA etc)
• Higher degree e.g. Masters, DPharm or management

Analytical and Judgement Skills

• Evidence of evaluation of best practice - applies research findings and patient information to practice. Promotes evidence-based practice
• Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement and is able to manage difficult and ambiguous problems
• Analyses complex data / information to identify improvements to clinical pharmacy services. Able to articulate information to justify actions taken
• Able to cope with a number of complex issues at any one time
• Communicates best practice outside the organisation
• Advanced skills in evaluating medicines information / trial results

Planning and Organisation

• Proven ability to work on own initiative & as part of team
• Evidence of team building and leadership skills
• Proven ability to deal with and resolve conflict and disagreement
• Plans and coordinates Pharmacy services
• Ability to affect and manage change
• Formal leadership and management training
• Ability to identify and manage risk, Applies expert knowledge and skills to patient care to optimise therapy and minimise risk
• Provides safe, effective and timely services to individual patients
• Provides complex advice to patients, medical and clinical staff on all issues of drug usage
• Proven experience in clinical pharmacy practice within specialist clinical area
• Reviewing medicines safety and usage to inform organisational policy and procedures

Human and Information Resources

• Experience in teaching and training
• Multidisciplinary training and development of staff in safe medicines practice & therapeutics

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.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust