Job overview
Would you like to work in a forward thinking, large cancer pharmacy team which includes Consultant Pharmacists in Cancer as well as Palliative Care, Highly Advanced and Advanced Cancer pharmacist, as well as the first Advanced Cancer Pharmacy technicians in the country? This exciting post promises to bring you an opportunity to work with national and internationally recognised expert pharmacist in the cancer and palliative care field. We provide local, regional and national cancer services including CAR-T, BMT treatments, gene therapy and we are also, of only, bone and soft tissue specialist centres in England.
Our team have a range of oncology and haematology pharmacy non-medical prescribers who work alongside consultants and other members of the MDT to review and prescribe SACT.
OUH is a clinical trials centre and we are involved in early and late phase research. As a teaching hospital, we believe that research should be embedded within pharmacist roles and will support with research opportunities, including PhD.
We welcome applications from band pharmacists who will be completing their clinical pharmacy diploma’s/MSc’s shortly.
Main duties of the job
Key roles include:
1. Delivery of high quality pharmaceutical care to adult cancer in-patients, day-case, and out-patients.
2. Participation in pharmacy services to the Day Treatment Unit to optimise patients’ medication and reduce medicines wastage.
3. Clinical checking of systemic anticancer treatment (SACT) and SACT clinical trial prescriptions.
4. Participating in multidisciplinary ward rounds
5. Pharmacist led oral anti-cancer treatment education clinics
6. Pharmacist non-medical prescribing in multidisciplinary clinics and day treatment unit
7. Aseptics experience within Pharmacy’s Clinical Trials Aseptic Services Unit (CTASU)
8. Participating in the day to day running of the CTASU and developing knowledge in quality control and quality assurance.
9. Involvement in cancer phase I, II, and III clinical trials
10. Active participation in Thames Valley Cancer Alliance groups
The post holder will participate in the band cancer pharmacist rotation which currently includes rotations through:
11. Oncology Ward
12. Haematology Ward
13. Day Treatment Unit (Oncology & Haematology)
14. SACT prescription clinical screening
15. Early phase/Late phase research & SACT clinical trials screening
16. Brodey Chemotherapy Day Unit, Horton Hospital, Banbury
17. Clinical Trials Aseptics Unit
18. Cancer Clinical Trials Set Up
19. Palliative Care
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the .