Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Haematology

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000

Job description

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has presented for a pharmacist with clinical cancer experience to join our cancer pharmacy team. This post is a permanent position within the haematology team to work closely with the Lead Clinical Pharmacist to manage the growing service.

As a world-leading research facility and one of the largest haematology tertiary referral centres, you will collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver cutting edge licensed and clinical trials to malignant and non-malignant haematology patients.

As a registered pharmacist, you will provide a person-centred approach to care, and manage specialist pharmacy services to haematology patients undergoing systemic anti-cancer treatment (SACT) or haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for malignant and non-malignant indications. You will collaborate with the Lead Clinical Pharmacist to improve the pharmacy service for these patients and educate pharmacy and multidisciplinary staff on these innovative treatments.

The UCLH Cancer Pharmacy Team is a large team across oncology, haematology and transplantation and works well together. Our ideal candidate will:

• Help us develop and deliver our vision for a person-centred clinical pharmacy service.
• Drive directorate and departmental clinical governance issues, clinical audit, practice research, service improvement projects and more.
• Be keen to further their career within cancer services.

Main duties of the job

The main day to day responsibilities would include:

• To provide highly specialised and complex evidence-based clinical advice and information to the multidisciplinary team on the care and treatment of haematology patients.
• To deliver and promote high quality, cost effective, patient focused pharmaceutical care.
• To manage the day-to-day delivery of clinical pharmacy services to haematology patients.
• To manage cancer pharmacists delivering clinical pharmacy services to haematology patients.
• To support the training and development of cancer pharmacists in the field of haematology.
• To support the opening and management of haematology clinical trials.

About us

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH.

Job responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Qualifications

• Master degree in Pharmacy, or equivalent.
• Pharmacist Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent experience and expertise.
• Evidence of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training.
• Independent prescriber, or willingness to undertake an independent prescribing qualification.
• Advanced practitioner as defined by the Faculty of Cancer Pharmacy Advanced and Consultant Level Framework (ACLF).
• Evidence of formal management training.

Experience

• Minimum five years post-registration.
• Minimum of three years' experience as a clinical pharmacist in a cancer specialty including haematology.
• Experience of verifying prescriptions for systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT).
• Experience as a clinical pharmacist in managing haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) patients including verification of conditioning prescriptions.
• Experience in reviewing and setting up cancer clinical trials including validation of electronic protocols.
• Experience of managing change and driving service improvements.
• Evidence of evaluating own and pharmacy staff's work to drive and deliver service improvements.
• Participation in multidisciplinary health services research.
• Evidence of publishing in a peer reviewed journal.

Skills and Abilities

• Effective time management and demonstrates the ability to meet deadlines.
• Excellent ability to prioritise complex workload and work accurately under pressure.
• IT literate, including use of spreadsheets to capture and manipulate data, search for evidence-based practice, presenting complex information.
• Able to identify risks, and develop and manage risk management procedures.
• Demonstrates integration of research evidence into practice.

Communication

• Demonstrates high level clinical knowledge, reasoning, and judgment, manages difficult and ambiguous problems.
• Able to communicate complex, contentious, and sensitive information effectively when using clear written and spoken English.
• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels both within and beyond pharmacy and the trust.
• Experience at presenting complex information to senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrates ability to influence practice within pharmacy and at a divisional level.

Personal and People Development

• Commitment to continually update skills, knowledge, and expertise; and maintain a portfolio of practice.
• Experience of identifying training needs and delivering education and training programmes for clinical staff groups.
• Ability to delegate authority appropriately.
• Experience of managing staff including objective setting, performance monitoring, recruitment and selection, and managing poor performance.
• Evidence of evaluating own and pharmacy staff's work to drive and deliver improvements in service quality.
• Ability to motivate team members in the achievement of common goals.

Ensure the risk of infection to self, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors is minimised by:

• Being familiar with, and adhering to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control.
• Completing all required training and education (both via e-learning and face to face) on infection prevention and control.
• Including infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development and included in your annual appraisal.
• Taking personal responsibility so far as is reasonably practicable, in helping ensure that effective prevention and control of health care associated infections is embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£61,927 to £68,676 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS