Band 8a Advanced Specialist Pharmacist Band 8a Cancer Services, County.
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, dynamic, innovative and enthusiastic pharmacist to join an established team of Specialist Clinical Pharmacists to support cancer patients. You will be part of the wider Pharmacy Cancer Team and joint Lead at the satellite pharmacy on the Cancer Unit at the County. You will provide clinical services to the out-patient clinics, local hospice and clinical trials.
The County Cancer Unit has a nurse led 16 chaired, four bedded out-patient day unit. The Cancer Centre at the Royal Stoke site consists of a 40 bedded in-patient ward, a 27 chaired out-patient area and four linear accelerators. The Acute Oncology Service is across both sites with a dedicated Emergency Admissions Bay at the Royal Stoke. Electronic prescribing has recently been introduced at County and is well established across Adult (ARIA®) Cancer Services.
UHNM is a Cancer Centre including Level 3 haematology and also a Myeloma UK Centre of Excellence. The clinical trials team based on the Cancer Centre manage a broad portfolio of both commercial and non-commercial trials.
- Deliver a comprehensive and consistently high-quality clinical pharmacy service and medicines management service to cancer patients
- Work with the Cancer Pharmacy team at County and Cancer Team Leaders to review clinical pathways and services
- Be responsible for specific disease sites, develop further specialist knowledge and forge links with specialist centres
- Clinically screen SACT prescriptions according to locally agreed standards, following a period of competency-based training in line with the British Oncology Pharmacy Association SACT Passport to Level 3
- Undertake further education to become a Pharmacist Independent Prescriber (PIP). To practice as a PIP, as required
- Deliver pharmacy elements of cancer clinical trials
- Involved in the implementation of relevant local, network and national standards
- Involved in obtaining and assuring the correct funding, including the cancer drugs fund (CDF), individual funding requests (IFRs), early access to medicine schemes (EAMS).
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Isabel Roberts Job title: Adv Specialist Pharmacist Cancer Services, Onco Email address: isabel.roberts@uhnm.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01782 672649
For Further Details / Informal Visits Contact
Isabel Roberts, Advanced Specialist Pharmacist – Cancer Services, Oncology
