Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is the largest comprehensive cancer centre in Europe, based across two sites and is ranked as one of the top NHS trusts in the country in the NHS national performance rankings, providing services for patients both locally and across the UK. The Royal Marsden has also been rated as ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our hospitals in Chelsea and Sutton offer both NHS and private patients inpatient and outpatient care for solid tumours and haemato-oncology cancers, including transplants, chemotherapy and clinical trials.

Main duties of the job

We have optimised our Band 6 clinical pharmacist programme to focus on patient facing clinical aspects of pharmacy care. This exciting opportunity is to join a team of rotational pharmacists concentrating on providing the best possible ward based pharmaceutical care. Our department strategy is focussed on providing a pioneering and compassionate service while embedding enhanced roles for pharmacy technicians and a maximised non-medical prescribing workforce.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals – one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey – as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.

At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.

At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care, contributing to the multidisciplinary team for clinical units as required, through ward pharmacy services.
• Promote optimal and appropriate drug use and high quality prescribing practice within the Trust.
• To attend all relevant events such as Registrar/Consultant rounds/unit meetings as appropriate.
• To respond appropriately to requests from medical and nursing staff for information and advice about the selection and use of drug therapy.
• Actively participate in audit, drug use reviews and pharmacoeconomic project work.
• Participate in any pharmacy initiatives or working groups as appropriate.
• To support the Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager with the Clinical Governance and Risk Management Strategy within the department and throughout the Trust.
• Participate in pharmacy initiatives within the units as appropriate.
• Strive for continuous quality improvement through identifying research questions; developing and contributing to research to further the medicines optimisation agenda in cancer.

Education/Qualifications

• GPhC registered Pharmacist
• Working towards Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

Experience

• NHS Hospital Pharmacy experience
• Ward pharmacy experience
• Experience of training staff

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

• Good organisational/time management
• Contribute to the team
• Good communication skills (written and verbal)
• Good presentation and problem solving skills
• Ability to train/coach other members of staff
• Aware of current developments in clinical pharmacy
• Ability to use Microsoft Office applications e.g. Word and Excel

Personal Qualities

• Professional appearance & demeanour
• Commitment to continuous improvement of self and service, including progressive and continuing professional development
• Enthusiastic, approachable and adaptable
• Confident and assertive
• Ability to provide emotional and social support whilst promoting dignity and respect
• Commitment to providing a high standard of care
• Compassionate, Pioneering, Collaborative and determined

Other Requirements

• Able to work on any Royal Marsden site as required
• Ability to participate in out of hours service

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.

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.

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