Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

Job overview

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic pharmacist to come and lead clinical pharmacy services on the chemotherapy treatment unit at the Liverpool site as part of our growing team!

Prior experience in cancer care in not required as you will be fully supported and trained by our friendly, dedicated team; you do require a thirst to learn, a passion to deliver excellent patient centered care and transferrable leadership experience.

Clatterbridge is an exciting place to continue your clinical pharmacy journey in a purpose built city centre hospital in Liverpool with state of the art facilities, working within a cutting edge clinical environment. This role represents an opportunity to develop and further progress in the rewarding specialty that is cancer care. The successful candidates will also receive mentoring and support to grow as a leader.

Working pattern will be 37.5 hours per week which includes weekends. Contribution to the Bank holiday and on-call rota will be part of the post. For a detailed list of our employee benefits, please see the attached documents to this vacancy.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will work alongside medical and nursing colleagues, as part of the MDT to lead the provision of  patient facing pharmaceutical care on wards and in outpatient clinics within a specialty. You will be an integral part of your specialty oncology team as well as the wider pharmacy team and will be involved in clinical trials and research within your chosen specialty. There will be opportunities to develop and lead pharmacist prescribing clinics in those specialties who do not currently have this service. We have opportunities to specialise in and lead areas such as; breast, lung, colorectal, upper GI, gynaecology, urology, skin, CNS.

You will also have the opportunity to work within the Aseptic Production Unit, quality assessing and releasing chemotherapy.

We can offer you;

• The opportunity to undertake a non medical prescribing qualification if you do not already have this qualification
• Fully structured training and support to develop expertise in cancer care
• Mentorship and formal leadership training
• Development of management skills through line management
• Development of education and training through delivery of teaching to the MDT and mentorship you can deliver to junior pharmacists
• The opportunity to work at the forefront of exciting new treatments and technologies, being involved in trials ongoing in your clinical area.
• A supportive environment with opportunities to progress and further your career.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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