Pharmacists

THE ROYAL MARSDEN; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Marsden is recruiting a pharmacist to join the Clinical Pharmacy team, specialising in cancer treatments and gaining experience across oncology, haematology, private care and paediatric-oncology. This rotational post offers exposure to medical day units, outpatient clinics, inpatient wards and SACT delivery, working with pharmacy, nursing and medical teams.

We seek a high-calibre, patient-focused pharmacist with excellent communication skills to contribute to a world-leading cancer

Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacist with UK GPhC
• Experience in clinical hospital pharmacy preferred
• Strong communication and teamwork skills

Responsibilities

• Provide operational support to the Clinical Services Pharmacy Team across hospital sites.
• Offer expert advice to multidisciplinary teams for safe, effective SACT delivery.
• Clinically screen/review prescriptions ensuring safe and appropriate use of SACT and other medicines.
• Support development of high-quality clinical services and improve patient outcomes.

Skills

Clinical Pharmacy

Oncology

Haematology

SACT delivery

Job description

We are delighted to be recruiting for a pharmacist to work as part of our Clinical Pharmacy team at The Royal Marsden. This is an ideal opportunity for a pharmacist looking to specialise in cancer treatments and to gain experience working in a world-leading cancer centre. This is a rotational post where you will have the opportunity to gain experience in a number of clinical cancer services and specialties, including oncology, haematology, private care, and paediatric-oncology.

This role is key to delivering a high-quality clinical pharmacy service which encompasses the medical day unit and outpatient clinics, along with inpatient wards and out-of-hospital SACT delivery and administration. This post will be supporting the multidisciplinary team working with key stakeholders within pharmacy, nursing and medicine to promote timely delivery of SACT and to continually improve outcomes for our patients.

Our pharmacists are well respected both within the Trust and nationally for their expertise within oncology and cancer services, and we are looking for a high calibre, self-motivated pharmacist with excellent communication skills to further enhance the team. This is fantastic opportunity for a forward thinking and patient focused pharmacist to gain excellent experience at the forefront of oncology practice.

• a. Provide operational support to the Clinical Services Pharmacy Team across the three hospital sites on a day-to-day basis by actively participating in the clinical pharmacy service.
• b. Provide expert advice and support to the multidisciplinary team to ensure safe, effective, and timely delivery of Systemic Anticancer Therapy (SACT) and other medications.
• c. Provide a clinical pharmacy service to patients by accurately clinically screening/reviewing prescriptions, ensuring the safe, effective, legal, and appropriate use of SACT and non-SACT medicines within an allocated clinical unit
• d. To support the development of high-quality clinical pharmacy services, improvement of patient outcomes and experience within the inpatient and outpatient settings across the Trust., The Clinical and Cancer services pharmacist is a rotational position designed to develop pharmacists by enhancing their knowledge and skills, and providing the depth of experience required to progress towards more senior specialised posts in Cancer Pharmacy.

Pharmacists will work within the clinical pharmacy and multidisciplinary teams to ensure the safe and clinically effective use of medicines for inpatients, day care units, and clinics within the Trust.

Pharmacists will be expected to act as professional role models and mentors for our more junior pharmacist team, ensuring their clinical practice, values an behaviours meet the high standards of our department and the wider organisation.

Rotations can include:

• Oncology
• Haemato-oncology
• Private Care
• Paediatric oncology/Teenagers and Young Adult (TYA) services

This role will also be supported to develop focused clinical knowledge and skills within sub-specialties, such as

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.