Lead Pharmacist Paediatric Haemoglobinopathies & Gene Therapies

Job overview

Are you ready for a new challenge? We are looking for an experienced pharmacist to join our friendly paediatric pharmacy team at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington.

What you’ll do:

• Deliver high-quality pharmaceutical care for children and young people with haemoglobinopathies as part of our stem cell transplantation programme.
• Develop and advance the haemoglobinopathies gene therapy service.
• Develop and review clinical guidelines and procedures.
• Help manage medicines governance and support cost-effective prescribing.
• Provide training and teaching for pharmacists and the wider team.
• Get involved in risk management, audit, and quality improvement.
• Support new drug applications.
• Provide clinical and specialist support to the outpatient pharmacy partnership.
• Deputise for the Senior Lead Pharmacist and other Leads, when needed.

Who we’re looking for:

• Solid foundation experience with hospital paediatric pharmacy.
• Specialist experience in stem cell transplantation (training can be supported)
• Someone motivated, enthusiastic, and keen to develop advanced practice skills.
• Systemic anti-cancer treatment (SACT) accreditation in paediatrics.

What we offer:

• A welcoming, enabling environment where everyone is valued.
• Strong support for your education and training.
• Opportunities to broaden your experience and progress your career.

Main duties of the job

• To lead, deliver, and develop clinical pharmacy services for children within the haematology specialty, including those undergoing stem cell transplantation and autologous gene therapy treatments.
• To lead and deliver pharmacy services relating to apheresis of patients undergoing stem cell collection.
• To be an expert on pharmaceutical care for children.
• To check and verify systemic anti-cancer treatments (SACT) and conditioning cytotoxic therapies.
• To work collaboratively with the Senior Lead Pharmacist Paediatrics to develop services
• To work collaboratively with other Lead Pharmacists to deliver care to stem cell transplant patients.
• To facilitate and support the safe, efficient and cost-effective use of drugs and to generate ideas for drug expenditure savings and quality improvement.
• To support and develop the women & children’s rotational band 7 pharmacists
• To actively contribute to the development, monitoring and integration of written policies/guidelines/PGDs to align with EBMT/JACIE accreditation requirements.
• To provide a comprehensive ward clinical pharmacy service within children’s service and to train other pharmacists in these specialties.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.