Clinical Trials Pharmacist

Job overview

A fantastic opportunity has emerged for a passionate, highly motivated, and dynamic pharmacist to join the pharmacy clinical trials team at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting time to join the Royal Marsden Hospital Clinical Trials Department. Our service is built around providing a high-quality service to our patients and staff of the Trust. The Royal Marsden is a world-leading cancer centre with two hospitals: one in Chelsea, London, and another in Sutton, Surrey. We also have a satellite Medical Day Care Unit located on the grounds of Kingston Hospital, Surrey. This position will be based in Sutton but will require working at our Chelsea site when necessary, to ensure consistent coverage and maintain the quality and speed of service during absences and annual leave. Applicants should have previous experience in clinical trials, and a background in oncology or haemato-oncology would be advantageous. You will be part of a team consisting of Pharmacists, Technicians and Assistants, who are always striving for excellence in all aspects of our work. We are working collaboratively as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team to ensure we always deliver outstanding care to our patients. Our team continues to support the research strategy of "taking personalized cancer treatment to the next level," with approximately over 400 active IMP studies and increasingly complex new clinical trials across all specialties, including gene therapies and cellular therapies studies.

Main duties of the job

• To contribute to the provision of the pharmacy clinical trials service to the Dispensaries (Chelsea & Sutton), Medical day Unit, West Wing Clinical Research Centre (WWCRC), Oak ward and day case areas of the Drug Development Unit and the Clinical Trial Dispensary across both sites. •    To assist the Clinical Trials Team with any day-to day clinical, dispensing, ward and research day units’ queries. •    To provide clinical trials advice while covering the research clinics and attending MDT.  •    To support research clinic prescribing  •    Provide clinical trial support and advice to other areas within pharmacy e.g. aseptic service, clinical services and to the research teams. •    To support the clinical trial team with clinical trial set-up of new studies, revision of amendments for ongoing studies already open at the trust, to provide continued support for the running and maintenance of current trial activity. •    To contribute to the provision of the pharmacy clinical trials service to the individual clinical units, R&D and the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

• To provide clinical support to clinical trial team.
• Support education and training regarding clinical trial dispensing and preparation within pharmacy. Assist in the training of new pharmacists undergoing their accreditation for clinical trial chemotherapy prescription screening and clinical trial final product checking.
• To provide continued support for the clinical trial set-up of new studies for the allocated unit.
• To provide continued support for the running and maintenance of active studies, including the management of protocol amendments.
• To assist in writing, reviewing and updating pharmacy clinical trial standard operating procedures.