Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- AfC Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-JH-EMF17457-B7-A
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey Hospital
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £48,270 - £54,931 per annum - includes high cost area supplements (HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Oncology Pharmacist
AfC Band 7
Job overview
As the demand for cancer care continues to grow, our vision continues to be to deliver excellence in pharmacy services to patients at Royal Surrey Cancer Centre.
We are pleased to offer this opportunity for an enthusiastic Pharmacist to join the specialist clinical pharmacy team in the Cancer Centre. The successful applicant would join a supportive and experienced team of specialist clinical pharmacy staff who provide a comprehensive service to oncology, haemato-oncology and surgical oncology patients.
The base for the role will be the Royal Surrey Cancer Centre which is within Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust in Guildford. As a regional cancer centre, there is expertise in a wide range of cancers, and services are offered to patients across Surrey and the South East. Outreach services are delivered in collaboration with neighbouring acute trusts as well as a mobile treatment unit service. The Royal Surrey SACT Protocols and Policies provide the basis for off-trial treatment. There is also a strong portfolio of clinical research.
You would liaise with the team in the dispensary (RSCH Pharmacy Ltd) and aseptic unit but this role does not include any direct responsibility in these areas.
Previous experience in haematology/oncology is desirable but not essential. We would endeavour to support any relevant personal/career development training when in post.
Main duties of the job
This is a clinical role with key responsibilities including:
• Clinical pharmacy service to oncology/haemato-oncology outpatients, day-case patients and inpatients on-site at the Royal Surrey Cancer Centre, at the outreach sites and the mobile treatment unit.
• Support to the content of the Cancer Centre systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT) and supportive care protocols and ARIA Med Onc electronic prescribing system
• Set-up and delivery of oncology/haemato-oncology clinical trials
• Service improvement initiatives
• Audit
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Specialist practitioner delivering a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to oncology, haematology and palliative care patients on the ward, day unit and outpatients at St Luke’s Cancer Centre (SLCC) and the outreach chemotherapy sites in accordance with objectives set by the senior pharmacist.
• Support the provision of the Trust Wide Research strategy by supporting the Pharmacy Clinical Trials team and taking an active role in the set up and delivery of oncology clinical trials.
• Provision of clinical and professional input to the day-to-day operation of the pharmacy service to SLCC.
• Active member of the oncology pharmacy team.
• Support the provision of a Trust Wide Medicines Management service.
• Provide out of hours emergency pharmacy services if required.
• Member of the oncology pharmacy team, providing a specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients treated at SLCC. As a Cancer Centre, SLCC serves a population of 1.2 Million patients, of all tumour sites, from across the St Luke’s Cancer Alliance.
• Provision of a specialist clinical pharmacy service at the outreach chemotherapy sites (Frimley Health NHS FT, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS FT). This will be on a sessional basis according to the needs of the service. Will include working as a lone practitioner with only remote supervision.
• Provide support to the Pharmacy Clinical Trials team in all aspects of the set up and delivery of oncology clinical trials as required.
• As part of the clinical pharmacy team, may be required to provide a clinical pharmacy service to oncology inpatients (including surgical oncology) taking responsibility for a minimum of 30 patients on an average ward.
• Supervise the work of technical staff, pre-registration pharmacists and band 6 pharmacists.
• Work with the Deputy Chief Pharmacist (Cancer, Aseptic and Research Services) to provide pharmaceutical input into the management of oncology drugs.
• Contribute to the implementation of protocol guidelines, specifying drug doses and clinical details required for the safe administration of chemotherapy drugs for all tumour sites treated at SLCC, i.e. breast, colorectal & and gastro-intestinal, lung, gynaecological tumours, urological tumours, brain, head & neck tumours and haematological malignancies.
• The post holder is guided by medicines legislation, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), departmental and hospital policies and the code of ethics of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS),
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Master’s degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- Registered Pharmacist with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Professional knowledge acquired through vocational Master’s degree in Pharmacy (4 years) plus one year’s pre-registration experience
- Understanding of the principles of Good Manufacturing Practice, Quality Assurance and Good Clinical Practice.
- Good core therapeutic knowledge
- Knowledge of current developments in Pharmacy and Oncology Practice.
- General hospital pharmacist experience to include clinical and technical roles in a range of specialities
- Experience of working in an aseptic dispensing environment.
- Experience involving training & supervising of staff
- Documented evidence of completed project work, audit, clinical trials and practice research
- Delivery of care to a defined group of patients, including cancer patients
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sally Seymour
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
For further information, please contact:
Helen Kimber (Oncology Pharmacy Operations Manager) [email protected]
Sally Seymour (Deputy Chief Pharmacist Cancer, Aseptic & Research Services) [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Royal Surrey Foundation Trust
- Telephone
- 01483 571122 Ext 2478
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