Job overview
Are you looking to join a forward-thinking, dynamic cancer pharmacy team with a mix of adult and paediatrics?
In the adult service, you’ll be part of one of the largest specialist pharmacy services in the country, working alongside Consultant Pharmacists, Highly Advanced and Advanced Cancer Pharmacists, and the very first Advanced Cancer Pharmacy Technicians in the UK.
Within paediatrics, you'll be part of a smaller close knit team, but strongly embedded in the MDT and we are the primary treatment centre for the Thames Valley paediatric cancer network, supporting the local POSCUs
Our pharmacist prescribers work closely with consultants and the wider MDT to review and prescribe SACTs, ensuring patients receive the highest standard of care.
At OUH, as a major clinical trials centre, we are actively involved in both early and late phase research. We believe every pharmacist role should be research-active, and support your pursuit of opportunities.
We are keen to hear from B pharmacists who are soon to complete their clinical pharmacy diplomas or MSc degrees.
We are proud to provide comprehensive services for patients in Oxfordshire and beyond.
Main duties of the job
Key roles include:
1. Delivery of high-quality pharmaceutical care to cancer in-patients, day-case, and out-patients.
2. Participation in pharmacy services to the Day Treatment Unit to optimise patients’ understanding towards medications and reduce medicines wastage.
3. Clinically screening and checking of systemic anticancer treatments (SACTs), SACT clinical trial treatments and supportive medication prescriptions.
4. Participating in multidisciplinary meeting and ward rounds
5. Pharmacist led oral anti-cancer treatment education clinics
6. Pharmacist non-medical prescribing in multidisciplinary clinics and day treatment unit
7. Aseptic 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 early and late phase clinical trials
10. Active participation in Thames Valley Cancer Alliance groups
The post will be split days/week in paediatrics and day/week in adult cancer
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 .