Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-SL0308
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £45,753 - £59,360 Per annum inc. HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Haematology and Oncology Pharmacist Band 7/8a progression
Band 7
Job overview
Would you like to be part of something amazing? Would you like to be involved in directly helping cancer patients? Following a recent business case approval, Frimley Health is investing in more pharmacy staff to manage the increasing demand on pharmacy cancer services. This new post offers security to pharmacists who would like the opportunity to specialise in cancer and progress from a band 7 to a band 8a. Training will be provided to become an accredited cancer pharmacist and also to be validated to release chemotherapy and monoclonal antibodies from our on site aseptic unit. We are committed to develop our staff, working closely with our clinical pharmacy and education & training teams. We welcome applications from pharmacists who want to start a career in hospital pharmacy and have a keen interest in the care of cancer patients.
Frimley Health provides haematology and oncology care to patients on an in-patient and outpatient basis across three sites. The sites provide care to patients in Surrey, East Berkshire and South Buckinghamshire. This post is based on the Wexham Park Hospital site.
The post holder will provide specialist clinical cancer services to the haematology day unit, haematology clinics, oncology wards, support clinical trials and undertake final checking within aseptic services.
Main duties of the job
The role will involve working within clinical haematology and oncology and pharmacy aseptic services.
The post holder will assist with providing clinical services to haematology and oncology inpatients and outpatients on a daily basis. This will involve working closely with the multidisciplinary team on both the wards, clinics and in the day units.
You should have completed the clinical diploma or equivalent and be committed to continuing professional development within the field.
You must have hospital pharmacy experience involving clinical pharmacy skills preferably in a haematology and oncology setting (but this is ot essential)
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To act as a specialist clinical pharmacist in cancer services, providing clinical support to the delivery of chemotherapy prescriptions after completion of competency based assessments.
To support the pharmacy team in understanding the scope of technical and professional guidance on all matters relating to aseptic preparation of pharmaceutical products within the Trust, including appropriate outsourcing of aseptic products purchased from external providers as appropriate.
To support the aseptic unit according to the NHS Long Term Plan ambitions for cancer and to implement Trust policies in relation to the pharmaceutical care of haematology and oncology patients.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Mpharm
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- MSc in Pharmacy Practice/Cancer Services or equivalent
- Independent Prescribing qualification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills- demonstrated in writing
- Organisational skills- evidence in application
- Excellent interpersonal skill- evidence in application
Desirable criteria
- IT technical skills
- Evidence of haem/Onc CPD
- IT skill - use of E-chemo prescribing systems e.g Aria
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience in hospital pharmacy
- Experience of training and mentoring
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of techical services regulations and requirements
- Demonstrable evidence of working in technical services
- Demonstrable evidence of working in haem/onc
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
- Ruk Parkar
- Job title
- Principal Oncology Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07467 356924
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