This Specialist Pharmacist post sits in the Cancer Services team at Northampton General Hospital, part of University Hospitals of Northamptonshire. The role supports patients on systemic anti-cancer treatment across adult and paediatric oncology and haematology, covering day case chemotherapy, outpatient clinics, the cancer ward and the emergency assessment unit. Post-holders rotate between ward, day case, outpatient and clinical trials duties, and manage allocated staff. Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council and a Masters in Pharmacy are essential.
What the job involves
- Deliver a specialist clinical pharmacy service to adult and paediatric oncology and haematology patients
- Provide the designated pharmacy service to inpatients on the cancer ward and the cancer emergency assessment unit
- Provide specialist pharmacy input to day case chemotherapy and outpatient oral chemotherapy patients in clinic
- Review patients on systemic anti-cancer treatment in pharmacy-led oncology clinics, including bloods, toxicities, scans and prescribing where authorised
- Attend consultant ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings, reconciling drug histories and carrying out structured medication reviews
- Take part in setting up and maintaining oncology and haematology clinical trials to Good Clinical Practice standards
- Support Aseptic Services with chemotherapy and parenteral nutrition, including validation of prescriptions
- Contribute to the implementation and development of chemotherapy electronic prescribing
- Counsel patients on oral anti-cancer medicines
- Manage, supervise and develop allocated staff, and train diploma and pre-registration pharmacists and technical staff
- Support the Principal Pharmacist, Cancer Services, with directorate work including audit, policy, risk assessment and service development
- Detect and report adverse drug reactions to the MHRA and via Datix, and maintain TTO pre-packs for the Oncology Directorate
What’s required
Qualifications
- Masters degree in Pharmacy
- Postgraduate clinical qualification achieved or in progress, or equivalent knowledge and experience
- CPD portfolio
Registration & licences
- Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Authorisation on the Trust NMP register for pharmacy-led clinics
Experience
- Clinical pharmacy experience including oncology and haematology
- Service improvement, quality improvement, audit or practice research
- Teaching, supervising and training staff
Skills & knowledge
- Information appraisal
- Working alone and as part of a team
- Time management
- Knowledge of NHS arrangements such as NICE, CQC and NHS Digital
- Awareness of interface issues
Nice to have
- IT skills, including databases and spreadsheets
- Directorate experience
- Independent pharmacist prescriber, with Practice Certificate in Independent Prescribing
- Change management
- Risk management
- Electronic prescribing for chemotherapy
- GCP or GMP knowledge
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society or BOPA
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