Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre with two London sites. This Band 6 clinical pharmacist role focuses on ward-based pharmaceutical care within a rotating team and supports medicines optimisation across cancer services.

The post requires GPhC registration and ongoing professional development, with opportunities to participate in clinical governance and research in a renowned national cancer centre.

Qualifications

• GPhC registered Pharmacist with NHS experience.
• Experience of training staff and ward-based pharmaceutical care.
• Experience in hospital pharmacy settings, particularly NHS.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care as part of the multidisciplinary ward team.
• Promote optimal drug use and high-quality prescribing within the Trust.
• Attend registrar/consultant rounds and unit meetings as appropriate.
• Respond to information requests from medical/nursing staff on drug therapy.
• Participate in audits, drug use reviews and pharmacoeconomic projects.
• Support governance and risk management strategies within the department.
• Engage in unit-based pharmacy initiatives and quality improvements.
• Develop research questions and contribute to medicines optimisation in cancer.

Skills

Organisational/time management

Team collaboration

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Training/Coaching

Clinical pharmacy updates

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Education

GPhC registered Pharmacist

Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy (or equivalent)

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is the largest comprehensive cancer centre in Europe, based across two sites and is ranked as one of the top NHS trusts in the country in the NHS national performance rankings, providing services for patients both locally and across the UK. The Royal Marsden has also been rated as 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our hospitals in Chelsea and Sutton offer both NHS and private patients inpatient and outpatient care for solid tumours and haemato-oncology cancers, including transplants, chemotherapy and clinical trials.

Main duties of the job

We have optimised our Band 6 clinical pharmacist programme to focus on patient facing clinical aspects of pharmacy care. This exciting opportunity is to join a team of rotational pharmacists concentrating on providing the best possible ward based pharmaceutical care.

Our department strategy is focussed on providing a pioneering and compassionate service while embedding enhanced roles for pharmacy technicians and a maximised non-medical prescribing workforce.

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 further information please refer to the job description and personal specification:

a) To provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care, contributing to the multidisciplinary team for clinical units as required, through ward pharmacy services.b) Promote optimal and appropriate drug use and high quality prescribing practice within the Trust.c) To attend all relevant events such as Registrar/Consultant rounds/unit meetings as appropriate.d) To respond appropriately to requests from medical and nursing staff for information and advice about the selection and use of drug therapy.e) Actively participate in audit, drug use reviews and pharmacoeconomic project work.f) Participate in any pharmacy initiatives or working groups as appropriate.g) To support the Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager with the Clinical Governance and Risk Management Strategy within the department and throughout the Trustg) Participate in pharmacy initiatives within the units as appropriateh) Strive for continuous quality improvement through identifying research questions; developing and contributing to research to further the medicines optimisation agenda in cancer

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• GPhC registered Pharmacist
• Working towards Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

Experience

• NHS Hospital Pharmacy experience
• Ward pharmacy experience
• Experience of training staff

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

• Good organisational/time management
• Contribute to the team
• Good communication skills (written and verbal)
• Good presentation and problem solving skills
• Ability to train/coach other members of staff
• Awareness of current developments in clinical pharmacy
• Ability to use Microsoft Office applications e.g. Word and Excel

Personal Qualities

• Professional appearance & demeanour
• Commitment to continuous improvement of self and service, including progressive and continuing professional development
• Enthusiastic, approachable and adaptable
• Confident and assertive
• Ability to provide emotional and social support whilst promoting dignity and respect
• Commitment to providing a high standard of care
• Compassionate, Pioneering, Collaborative and determined

Other Requirements

• Able to work on any Royal Marsden site as required
• Ability to participate in out of hours service

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.

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