Job overview
An exciting opportunity has presented for a pharmacist with clinical cancer experience including haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) to join our cancer pharmacy team. This post is a permanent position within the HSCT team to work closely with the Lead Clinical Pharmacist to manage the growing service.
As a world-leading research facility and Europe’s largest HSCT centre, you will collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver cellular therapies such as chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell treatment, which is licensed or in clinical trials.
As a registered pharmacist, you will provide a person-centred approach to care, and manage specialist pharmacy services to patients undergoing HSCT or cellular advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) for cancer or non-malignant indications. You will collaborate with the Lead Clinical Pharmacist to improve the pharmacy service for these patients and educate pharmacy and multidisciplinary staff on these innovative treatments.
The UCLH Cancer Pharmacy Team is a large team across oncology, haematology and transplantation and works well together. Our ideal candidate will:
• help us develop and deliver our vision for a person-centred clinical pharmacy service,
• drive directorate and departmental clinical governance issues, clinical audit, practice research, service improvement projects and more,
• be keen to further their career within cancer services.
Main duties of the job
The main day to day responsibilities would include:
• To provide highly specialised and complex evidence-based clinical advice and information to the multidisciplinary team on the care and treatment of HSCT and ATMP patients.
• To deliver and promote high quality, cost effective, patient focused pharmaceutical care.
• To manage the day-to-day delivery of clinical pharmacy services to HSCT and ATMP patients.
• To manage cancer pharmacists delivering clinical pharmacy services to HSCT and ATMP patients.
• To support the training and development cancer pharmacists in the field of HSCT and ATMPs.
• To support the opening and management of HSCT and ATMP clinical trials.
Working for our organisation
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
·University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
·National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
·Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
·University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
·Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
·University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
·The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
·University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.