Contact information
For further information please contact Tracey Keys (Lead pharmacist cancer services) at tracey.keys@nhs.net.
About the role
The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Pharmacist to join our expanding and progressive Pharmacy team. The successful post holder will help to develop the Clinical Pharmacy service to our Haematology and Oncology Day units and inpatient ward across the Trust.
The Pharmacy Cancer Services Team have excellent working relationships with the medical and nursing staff and are well integrated into these teams.
You will have the opportunity to help to develop protocols for systemic anti-cancer treatments (SACT), clinical guidelines, be involved in the education and training of Nurses, Doctors and Pharmacy staff. As part of this post you will take on a non-medical prescribing role in an outpatient clinic setting, this will be fully supported through our education and training competency framework, and includes shadowing and supervision before final sign off is complete.
We are also committed to providing support for education and training to enhance your career, including the non-medical prescribing qualification and further courses to enhance your skills in a clinic setting. You will be supported by a team of experienced Oncology and Haematology Specialist Pharmacists, Advanced Clinical Pharmacists, the Lead Pharmacist Clinical Services Cancer, and the Highly Specialist Oncology Pharmacist.
Main duties
* The Advanced Clinical Pharmacist will be responsible for medicines optimisation in Oncology and Haematology
* Acts as the Advanced Clinical Pharmacist for clinical chemotherapy services to the Trust.
* The Advanced Clinical Pharmacist will work closely with the lead cancer clinician and chemotherapy lead, oncologists and haematologists for the delivery of Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy services to the specialty area demonstrating advanced theoretical and practical knowledge in all aspects of work.
* Lead responsibility for setting up new cancer chemotherapy regimens on chemocare (electronic prescribing).
* Lead responsibility for management of patient access schemes for cancer drugs and for the reporting of expenditure on cancer drugs
* Provides the highly specialised clinical advice to the pharmacy clinical trials team regarding haematology and oncology trials conducted within the Trust
* Acts as a designated transplant pharmacist (as per JACIE accreditation requirements)
Essential person specification requirements
* Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy
* Postgraduate Diploma or Postgraduate Master’s degree in Clinical Pharmacy, or the equivalent degree of experience
* Registered as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
* Qualified as Pharmacist Independent Prescriber or willingness to train to become an independent prescriber if relevant to the role
* Experience of working in hospital Pharmacy, including ward-based clinical work
* Evidence of Continuing Professional development
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team including senior doctors and nurses.
* Relevant clinical experience
* Experience of audit
Be part of MY team
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Application guidance:
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Our benefits
* Access to the NHS pension plan
* Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
* Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
* Extensive benefits and support, including:
* Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Home electronics scheme
* Car lease salary sacrifice scheme
* Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
* Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
* Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
* Career progression, training and support
Skilled worker sponsorship
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