Specialist Oncology Pharmacist

Barts Health NHS Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare provider in London seeks a dynamic pharmacist to join their oncology pharmacy team. This role offers the chance to develop clinical skills while providing exceptional pharmacy services to oncology patients. The ideal candidate will need appropriate qualifications and experience, including supporting medication management and participating in multidisciplinary team rounds.

Benefits

Training and professional development

Inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• Proven experience in pharmacy service provision within oncology.
• Experience in supervising and organising staff.
• Knowledge of aseptic techniques and pharmacy regulations.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to oncology patients.
• Participate in ward rounds and patient medication reviews.
• Support budget management and ensure cost-effective prescribing.

Skills

Attention to detail

Ability to work under pressure

Customer service skills

Teamwork

Communication skills

Education

MPharm or equivalent

Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC

Specialist postgraduate certificate in pharmacy practice

Independent prescribing qualification

Job description

Barts Health has an opportunity for a dynamic individual within their state of the art oncology pharmacy department. This post offers an individual the opportunity to develop their clinical skills in the area of Oncology and contribute to the highly motivated and innovative cancer pharmacy clinical team.

This job presents an exciting opportunity for you to further develop your expertise in all aspects of oncology. You will gain clinical and technical experience from working within our well-established team of oncology pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

The position is based at St Bartholomew's Hospital but you will also visit other sites within Barts Health. You will clinically screen all chemotherapy prescriptions, both IV and Oral, for Medical and Haemato-oncology patients including Stem Cell Transplant, provide clinical pharmacy services at ward level and in clinics, complete assigned project and audit work including guideline preparation, new drug submissions, financial reporting and staff training to develop your skills and knowledge.

The aim of this post is to provide patients with outstanding oncology services from pharmacy, through the post holder's in-depth understanding of the Chemotherapy Services Unit (CSU), Clinical Trials and Oncology Clinical services. Pharmacists will be given training to become competent and will undertake developmental activities to enable them to gain skills, knowledge, and experience in a wide variety of Cancer Pharmacy activities.

Main duties of the job

The primary responsibility of the post holder is to support Cancer Services and provide pharmaceutical input to patients using oncology services at Barts Health NHS Trust. The main focus of the role is on the following outcomes:

To provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service, working closely with the pharmacy oncology team, the multidisciplinary ward team and the dispensary team

To support the Cancer Leads in promoting high quality, cost effective prescribing for patients at Barts Health. This may include:

Participation in ward rounds and discharge planning

Medication history taking, drug therapy audit and drug use review

Assisting the department implement and audit adherence to the National Strategy and NICE guidelines

Drawing up prescribing guidelines for department use and inclusion in the Trust formulary

Drawing up shared care guidelines for selected medicines and evaluations of new drugs to support requests for use.

Supporting the Directorate in managing their drug budget

Optimising medication usage for Cancer patients

As a member of the Pharmacist Band 7 team, the post holder will:

Assist the Highly Specialist Oncology Pharmacist in promoting high quality, cost-effective and safe prescribing in the Cancer Directorate and to assist in the development of clinical pharmacy services.

Provide clinical pharmacy services to Medical and Haemato-oncology, Haematology and Endocrine wards.

Provide clinical pharmacy support

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MPharm or equivalent
• Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
• Specialist postgraduate certificate in pharmacy practice or equivalent knowledge and experience
• Independent prescribing qualification or willingness to work towards
• Specialist postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent knowledge and experience

Experience

• Proven experience of good performance in previous posts
• Previous experience of working within oncology providing a pharmacy service to oncology wards
• Experience in supervising and organising staff and work
• Evidence of basic teaching and tutoring in a hospital setting through training others e.g. preregistration / foundation training pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
• o Previous experience of working within aseptics - Radiopharmacy, chemotherapy, TPN, CIVAS or manufacturing

Knowledge

• Basic pharmaceutical care needs of oncology patients
• Awareness of current legislation and regulations, including COSHH and Health & Safety at Work Act
• An awareness of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues relevant to oncology patients
• Demonstrated knowledge of the principles and practices of aseptics/ parenterals e.g. formulation, stability, administration, legal issues
• Understanding of stock control systems
• Knowledge of safe and secure handling of medicines requirements
• Understanding of the importance of adherence to SOPs and legislation
• Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
• Clinical /Technical knowledge of: o Oncology o Aseptic Dispensing for NHS patients o Parenteral Therapy
• Up to date, practical knowledge of all aspects of GMP and QA

Skills

• Able to complete documentation accurately with attention to detail
• Able to accurately follow written procedures under pressure
• Demonstrates ability to perform accurate complex calculations and numeracy skills
• Ability to plan, prioritise and organise self
• Able to work unsupervised and under pressure
• IT literate; able to use Microsoft office with intermediate IT skills including, accurate data entry and use of specialist computer programmes
• Demonstrates effective customer service skills
• Good team worker
• Evidence of good ward practice
• Able to communicate complex information effectively using clear and spoken English (Verbal and written)
• Able to communicate effectively

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.