Highly Specialist Oncology Pharmacist

Job summary

Barts Health has an opportunity for a dynamic individual within their state of the art oncology pharmacy department. This post offers an individual the opportunity to develop their clinical skills in the area of Oncology and contribute to the highly motivated and innovative cancer pharmacy clinical team.

This job presents an exciting opportunity for you to further develop your expertise in all aspects of oncology. You will gain clinical and managerial experience from working within our well-established team of oncology pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

The position is based at St Bartholomew's Hospital but you will also visit other sites within Barts Health. This post will allow you to develop your managerial skills and gain in depth experience in clinical trials, commissioning, finance and e-prescribing as well as providing you the opportunity to provide clinical pharmacy services to a wide array of Cancer patients including solid tumour, haemato-oncology and haematopoietic stem cell transplant.

The Cancer Pharmacy Clinical Team is well established within Barts Cancer Centre and we provide inpatient, outpatient and daycase SACT services. In line with the Trust's goals, we strive to work with our local communities to improve health and well-being, be a provider of excellent and equitable health and care, efficiently and cultivate Barts Health as an outstanding and inclusive place to work.

Main duties of the job

The primary responsibility of the post holder is to:

Ensure a safe, efficient oncology pharmacy service that meets the needs of the users

Optimise medicine use in individual patients

Work closely with the multidisciplinary and wider pharmacy teams to optimise patient flow

Draw up and implement formulary guidance, based on available evidence, national guidance and commissioning policies in Cancer

Oversee the drug budget for Pharmacy Cancer Services; identify and deliver cost improvement plans for medicines expenditure in conjunction with the relevant teams

Ensure all regulatory guidance is adhered to e.g., GMP and GCP

Ensure the Cancer Pharmacy Team are achieving their key performance indicator (KPI) targets

Ensure all members of the Cancer Pharmacy Team are set clear objectives and are competent in their role

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band

Person specification

Experience

Essential

• ignificant post registration in a hospitalbased post
• Previous experience of working within oncology providing a pharmacy service to oncology wards
• Previous experience of working within aseptics, including chemotherapy delivery
• Experience of supervising cytotoxic reconstitution services
• Experience in successfully managing and organising staff and work / projects
• Previous evaluations or reviews of cancer medicines

Skills

Essential

• Demonstrates basic project management skills
• Demonstrates ability to manage others and delegate as appropriate

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of medicines management systems at ward level
• Understanding of the importance of adherence to SOPs and legislation
• Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical care needs of oncology patients
• Knowledge of all aspects of GMP, QA and QMS
• Demonstrated knowledge of the principles and practices of aseptics/ parenterals e.g., formulation, stability and administration
• An awareness of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues relevant to oncology patients
• Awareness of new developments in cancer therapy

Qualifications

Essential

• MPharm or equivalent
• Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
• Specialist postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
• Specialist postgraduate certificate in Technical services E.g. national course in Pharmaceutical Technology and Quality Assurance, or equivalent knowledge and experience or Specialist postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent knowledge and experience
• Independent prescribing qualification or willingness to work towards

Other

Desirable

• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
• Member of British Oncology Pharmacy Association (BOPA)