Advanced Pharmacist - Haemato-oncology/Bone Marrow Transplant

Job summary

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre provides excellent cancer care to patients in the North West (including North Wales and the Isle of Man). We have 3 site locations; the central Liverpool site and hub sites in the Wirral and Aintree. Haematology inpatient services, including 2 wards, bone marrow transplant service and the regional Teenage and Young Adult unit (supported by the Teenage Cancer Trust) are located at our Liverpool site.It is an exciting time for The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, having recently expanded our regional haemato-oncology footprint to our Clatterbridge-Aintree site. We are expanding our ATIMP profile are in the process of introducing CAR-T therapy. These developments has provided an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Pharmacist in Haemato-oncology and is an important position within our large, diverse and friendly pharmacy team. You will be a clinical leader and role model with a calm, positive, organised manner. The haemato-oncology clinical service includes inpatient and outpatient chemotherapy for patients with a variety of haemto-oncology conditions including bone marrow transplant, as well as pharmacist-led prescribing clinics for patients with myeloproliferative disorders, lymphoma and myeloma.

You will liaise with aseptic services, medicines safety and medicines optimisation leads regarding haemato-oncology matters and train junior and rotational pharmacists when required.

Prior haematology experience is desired but not essential.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will work alongside four other Advanced Haematology Pharmacists, a Senior Haematology Pharmacist and two Medicines Management Technicians as the pharmaceutical experts in haematological malignancies and be responsible for introducing new cancer medicines into practice for this area.

  • Provide clinical, professional and technical expertise to support the delivery, development and monitoring of high quality patient focused pharmacy services to haemato-oncology patients at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre
  • Provide a highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to cancer services.
  • Acts as a non-medical prescriber to support to support the chemotherapy day units and pharmacist-led prescribing clinics (there is the opportunity to undertake the independent prescribing course in post, if not already completed)
  • Support the implementation and maintenance of chemotherapy electronic prescribing to the haemato-oncology service
  • Provides medicines optimisation services including dispensary duties, ward cover and aseptic release cover when required
  • Support the development of expansion of the haematology clinical trials and ATIMP portfolio

About us

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is one of three specialist cancer centres in England. With 1,800 specialist staff and three sites, we are one of the largest NHS providers of non-surgical cancer treatment. The Trust has a unique multi-site care model serving the 2.4 million population across Cheshire and Merseyside and is consistently rated by patients as one of the best performing hospitals.

Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do.

Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.

We are -

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details about this exciting role on offer at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.

If you are the person that can meet these challenges and grasp the opportunities, then informal enquiries may be directed to Jennifer Gibson (Principal Pharmacist: Haemato - oncology) on 0151 318 8737.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential
  • Master of Pharmacy or equivalent
  • MRPharmS
  • Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable
  • Independent Prescriber

Knowledge

Essential
  • Good change management
  • Good pharmaceutical knowledge
  • Knowledge of changing NHS environment & government initiatives
  • Demonstrable appropriate post qualification hospital experience
Desirable
  • Evidence of managing a changing situation
  • Oncology pharmacy practice experience
  • Knowledge of current & future developments in cancer treatment

Experience

Essential
  • Post qualification hospital experience
  • Experience in supervising/ mentoring less experienced pharmacists
Desirable
  • Oncology pharmacy practice experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHSFT

Address

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool

65 Pembroke Place

Liverpool

L7 8YA


Employer's website

https://www.clatterbridgecc.nhs.uk/

Company
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHSFT
Location
Liverpool, United Kingdom L7 8YA
Employment Type
Fixed-Term
Salary
£50952.00 - £57349.00 a year
Posted
Company
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHSFT
Location
Liverpool, United Kingdom L7 8YA
Employment Type
Fixed-Term
Salary
£50952.00 - £57349.00 a year
Posted