Cancer and Clinical Services Pharmacist in London

We are delighted to be recruiting for a pharmacist to work as part of our Clinical Pharmacy team at The Royal Marsden. This is an ideal opportunity for a pharmacist looking to specialise in cancer treatments and to gain experience working in a world-leading cancer centre. This is a rotational post where you will have the opportunity to gain experience in a number of clinical cancer services and specialties, including oncology, haematology, private care, and paediatric-oncology.

This role is key to delivering a high-quality clinical pharmacy service which encompasses the medical day unit and outpatient clinics, along with inpatient wards and out-of-hospital SACT delivery and administration. This post will be supporting the multidisciplinary team working with key stakeholders within pharmacy, nursing and medicine to promote timely delivery of SACT and to continually improve outcomes for our patients.

Our pharmacists are well respected both within the Trust and nationally for their expertise within oncology and cancer services, and we are looking for a high calibre, self-motivated pharmacist with excellent communication skills to further enhance the team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a forward thinking and patient focused pharmacist to gain excellent experience at the forefront of oncology practice.

• Provide operational support to the Clinical Services Pharmacy Team across the three hospital sites on a day-to-day basis by actively participating in the clinical pharmacy service.
• Provide expert advice and support to the multidisciplinary team to ensure safe, effective, and timely delivery of Systemic Anticancer Therapy (SACT) and other medications.
• Provide a clinical pharmacy service to patients by accurately clinically screening/reviewing prescriptions, ensuring the safe, effective, legal, and appropriate use of SACT and non-SACT medicines within an allocated clinical unit.
• Support the development of high-quality clinical pharmacy services, improvement of patient outcomes and experience within the inpatient and outpatient settings across the Trust.

• Provide a clinical pharmacy service to the chemotherapy day units and outpatient prescribing clinics.
• Clinical screen and verify prescription for SACT according to the BOPA Standards for the Pharmacy Verification of Prescriptions for Cancer Medicines.
• Support the medical and nursing teams through provision of pharmacy advice and ensure the safe and timely delivery of oncology services.
• Work across the chemotherapy day units, outpatient departments and clinic areas to clinically check the appropriateness of prescribing and promoting medicines optimisation.
• Promote the ongoing Trust initiatives to continually improve patient experiences of day case chemotherapy.
• Liaise with the pharmacy aseptic, dispensary and clinical teams and the multi-disciplinary team on the day units to ensure an efficient, effective and safe chemotherapy service is provided.
• Attend unit meetings if required.
• Participate in pharmacy initiatives within the units as appropriate.

• GPhC Registration
• MSc/ Diploma Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
• Registered non-medical prescriber or willing to work towards this qualification

• Post registration NHS hospital experience
• Experience in delivering a clinical pharmacy service to wards / day units
• Clinical audit and quality/service improvement projects
• Experience of delivering education & training to staff and students

• Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Ability to work alone without direct supervision when required
• Excellent time management and organisational skills, ability to prioritise effectively & meet deadlines
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment whilst maintaining attention to detail and accuracy at all times
• Ability to safely clinically screen prescriptions/drug charts
• Ability to train other members of staff
• Recognises limitations of own professional competence.
• Awareness of current developments in clinical pharmacy
• Ability to use an electronic prescribing system and supporting software to complete clinical pharmacist tasks on a daily basis.

• Adaptable to change: flexible to meet the needs of the role
• Professional, act as a role model and uphold GPhC standards for pharmacy professionals
• Good leadership qualities: able to take responsibility & delegate effectively
• Acts upon feedback for both own practice and the pharmacy service
• Enthusiastic and approachable
• Upholds the RM Trust core values
• Able to work at all Royal Marsden sites
• Ability to participate in out of hours service and 7 day working

The Royal Marsden values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. We advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment. Please ensure your information is accurate to avoid errors with processing your application. All applicants will be contacted by email to the address supplied on your application. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly and to ensure that email filters are set to allow our emails.

Flu Vaccination – What We Expect of our Staff: At The Royal Marsden we have an immune compromised patient population who we must protect as much as we can against the flu virus. Each year, seasonal flu affects thousands of people in the UK. Occurring mainly in winter, it is an infectious respiratory disease capable of producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a common cold, through to very severe or even fatal disease. The wellbeing of our staff and patients is of the utmost importance to us, and it is the expectation of The Royal Marsden that all patient-facing staff have an annual flu vaccination, provided free of charge by the Trust.

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.