Cancer and Clinical Services Pharmacist

Job overview

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 fantastic opportunity for a forward thinking and patient focused pharmacist to gain excellent experience at the forefront of oncology practice.

Main duties of the job

• 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
• To support the development of high-quality clinical pharmacy services, improvement of patient outcomes and experience within the inpatient and outpatient settings across the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification

• 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 though provision of pharmacy advice and ensure the safe and timely delivery of oncology services
• To work across the chemotherapy day units, outpatient departments and clinic areas to clinically check the appropriateness of prescribing and promoting medicines optimisation
• Promote the on-going 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.