Job summary
Employer heading
Advanced Specialist Pharmacist Haematology-Cancer Services
Band 8a
Job overview
Advanced Specialist Pharmacist Haematology – Cancer Services - Band 8a
UHNM is a Cancer Centre including Level 3 haematology (providing complex inpatient chemotherapy regimens causing prolonged periods of neutropenia and autograft transplants) and also a Myeloma UK Centre of Excellence.
The pharmacy directorate has modern, purpose-built pharmacy departments on both the County and Royal Stoke hospital sites and has close links with Keele University School of Pharmacy. The Pharmacy team is enthusiastic, forward thinking and vibrant. We have a proven track record in re-engineering our services to improve the delivery of high quality, patient focused pharmaceutical care and optimisation of medicines use.
The Cancer Centre at the Royal Stoke site consists of a 40 bedded in-patient ward and a dedicated four bedded Emergency Admissions Bay for clinical assessment of toxicities. There is a 27 chaired out-patient area and four linear accelerators. The County Cancer Unit has a nurse led 16 chaired, four bedded out-patient day unit. The clinical trials team based on the Cancer Centre manage a broad portfolio of both commercial and non-commercial trials. Electronic prescribing is well established across both Paediatric and Adult Cancer Services.
Main duties of the job
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, dynamic, innovative and enthusiastic pharmacist to join an established team of Specialist Clinical Pharmacists to support cancer patients.
As Advanced Specialist Pharmacist for Haematology you will work with the Lead Advanced Specialist Pharmacist in the development of this service to both in and out-patients.
As part of the wider Pharmacy Cancer Team primarily based at the satellite pharmacy on the Cancer Centre at the Royal Stoke site you will provide clinical services to the out-patient clinics. You will work alongside a team of Oncology, Haematology and Paediatric Cancer Senior Pharmacists under the management of the Lead Pharmacist. Haematology. There will also be opportunities to work at the County site in Stafford.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the JD/PS for full details T
To arrange a departmental visit please contact Anja Murray
Person specification
Essential Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm)
- Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma / MSc or equivalent Qualification or evidence of equivalent experience or training
- Independent Prescriber with appropriate annotation on GPhC register or willing to undertake appropriate training to become an active independent prescriber
Desirable criteria
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB)
- Member of British Oncology Pharmacy Association (BOPA)
- Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Certification
- MSc Clinical Pharmacy or Cancer
- Formal management and / or leadership qualification
Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive experience as a clinical pharmacist practitioner including a solid grounding in a broad range of clinical specialties
- Clinical pharmacy experience within Cancer services and an enthusiasm to develop this
- Commitment and evidence of professional updating and formal continuous professional development (CPD)
- Computer literate and able to use Windows applications including Microsoft Word, Excel, Teams and internet
Desirable criteria
- Experience in Haematology Cancer Care
- Experience working with clinical trials and knowledge of the regulations relating to them
- Evidence of involvement in pharmacy practice research and/or audit
- Publication of research in a peer reviewed journal
- Management of Staff
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Anja Murray
- Job title
- Adv Specialist Lead Pharmacist Haematology/Onc
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Isabel Robert-Advanced Specialist Pharmacist Cancer Services
01782 672649 or 672620
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