We are delighted to be recruiting for pharmacists 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, paediatric-oncology, critical care and surgery.
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.
The Royal Marsden moved to a new Epic Digital Health Record in March 2023, which has revolutionised how we practice and deliver care to patients. The Oak Cancer Centre (a new, state-of-the-art treatment and research facility) opened in June 2023 on the Sutton site, and along with future development plans for the Chelsea site, there's never been a more exciting time to join The Royal Marsden pharmacy team.
Main duties of the job
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 unitd. 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.
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 more information please refer to the job description and personal specification.
* To work across the chemotherapy day units, outpatient departments and clinic areas to clinically check the appropriateness of prescribing and promoting medicines optimisation
* Promote the on-going Trust initiatives to continually improve patient experiences of day case chemotherapy
* Liaise with the pharmacy aseptic, dispensary and clinical teams and the multi-disciplinary team on the day units to ensure an efficient, effective and safe chemotherapy service is provided.
* Attend unit meetings if required.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
* GPhC Registration
* MSc/ Diploma Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
* Registered non-medical prescriber or willing to work towards this qualification
Experience
* Post registration NHS hospital experience
* Experience in delivering a clinical pharmacy service to wards / day units
* Clinical audit and quality/service improvement projects
* Experience of delivering education & training to staff and students
Skills Abilities/knowledge
* Ability to work effectively as part of a team
* Ability to work alone without direct supervision when required
* Excellent time management and organisational skills, ability to prioritise effectively & meet deadlines
* Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment whilst maintaining attention to detail and accuracy at all times
* Ability to safely clinically screen prescriptions/drug charts
* Ability to train other members of staff
* Recognises limitations of own professional competence.
* Awareness of current developments in clinical pharmacy
* Ability to use an electronic prescribing system and supporting software to complete clinical pharmacist tasks on a daily basis.
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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