Lead Pharmacist Oncology

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 63,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading cancer care institution in Greater London seeks a Lead Pharmacist for Oncology to coordinate clinical pharmacy services at the Sutton site. The role involves leading a skilled team, optimizing patient outcomes, and implementing key projects in collaboration with stakeholders. Candidates should have oncology pharmacy experience, be registered prescribers, and possess strong leadership and organizational skills. This position offers a one-year backfill role supporting a key project, with flexible working options.

Benefits

Dynamic working environment

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience of working in oncology pharmacy.
• Financial forecasting and managing drug expenditure.
• Experience delivering education and training.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and optimize clinical pharmacy oncology services.
• Lead a team to deliver pharmacy services to Oncology patients.
• Implement local, regional, and national projects.

Skills

Team leadership

Time management

Organizational skills

Effective communication

Microsoft Office

Education

GPhC registration

Registered non-medical prescriber

RPS membership

Job description

This 0.4 WTE Band 8b Lead Pharmacist: Oncology Sutton role is a one-year backfill (Thursday/Friday) during the current post holder's secondment to an RM Partners SACT project.

The position leads and supports the Oncology Pharmacy Team at Sutton & Kingston, ensuring high-quality clinical services for OCC & Kingston day units and NMP support to SACT clinics. It also contributes to developing the pharmacy workforce to recruit and retain top staff.Candidates should be enthusiastic, proactive, independent, decisive, and highly organised.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for the co-ordination, delivery and optimisation of clinical pharmacy Oncology services at the Sutton site. To include working alongside the Head of Clinical services and the other lead pharmacists to ensure process standardisation, pathways are streamlined and clinical pharmacy services are consistent across both sites.

Leading a team of highly skilled pharmacists, technicians and other pharmacy staff working to deliver cutting edge pharmacy services to Oncology patients.

Leading on the delivery of local, regional and national projects to optimise medication, improve services and outcomes for patients. The post holder will be responsible for implementation of these projects, through extensive stakeholder engagement and collaboration.

To lead on pharmaceutical issues relating to medicines optimisation and clinical trials within the existing Oncology Specialist pharmacist role, ensuring adherence to national guidelines and medicines legislation.

To provide highly specialised pharmaceutical advice and support relating to medicines use to senior medical and nursing staff of the designated specialist unit.

About us

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals - one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey - as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.

At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.

At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.

Job responsibilities

For more information please refer to the job description and person specification.

Responsible for the co-ordination, delivery and optimisation of clinical pharmacy oncology services at the Sutton & Kingston site, to include the provision of services 7 days a week (if required) and out of hours.

To be responsible for supporting the Head of Clinical services in the operational delivery of clinical pharmacy oncology services at the Sutton & Kingston site.

To lead the pharmacy team providing a clinical pharmacy oncology service at the Sutton & Kingston site, to include day to day oversight of operations, implementation of clear processes for allocating and managing the workforce and skill mix optimisation.

To contribute to the local delivery of the pharmacy Education and Training strategy. To collaborate with the Pharmacy Education and Training Team to develop a strategy that is appropriate, aspirational and supports the development and delivery of a high quality clinical pharmacy service.

Deputise for senior members of the pharmacy team where appropriate attending Trust meetings, taking responsibility for the Pharmacy Department when required and dealing with any clinical and service issues that arise.

To identify changes in prescribing practices and new prescribing practices that may impact on the drugs budget and / or patient activity and communicate any perceived impact to the relevant teams and clinical business unit.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• GPhC registration
• Registered non-medical prescriber
• RPS membership

Experience

• Experience of working in oncology pharmacy
• Financial forecasting and managing drug expenditure to include contribution to delivering cost improvement programmes
• Experience of contributing to the delivery of medication governance and medication safety
• Experience delivering education and training, and providing supervision to support the development of multidisciplinary team
• Recent (in last 2 years) evidence of delivering efficiencies in the NHS
• Non- Medical prescribing experience

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

• Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Ability to work alone without direct supervision when required
• Ability to lead a team effectively
• Good time management and organisational skills, ability to prioritise effectively
• Ability to work under pressure whilst maintaining attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to communicate effectively with members of the public and other healthcare professionals (written & verbal)
• Ability to use Microsoft Office applications e.g. Word, Excel, Outlook and advanced literature searching
• Ability to critically reflect on own and teams performance

Other

• Good leadership qualities: able to take responsibility and to delegate effectively
• Adaptable to change: flexible in accepting new procedures and policies
• Ability to demonstrate initiative: proactive and self-motivated
• Progressive and continuing professional development

Experience

• Significant experience of leading and managing change projects to improve services
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries and managing complex stakeholder relationships
• Experience of setting and delivering objectives

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.