Specialist Pharmacist - Pharmacy Production and Oncology | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 18 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,952 - £57,349 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 May 2024 |
| Location: | Nottingham, NG5 1PB |
| Company: | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6195374/164-6195374 |
Summary
We are excited to offer the opportunity to join our team as a specialist pharmacist in pharmacy production and adult oncology.
The role will be split 50/50 between pharmacy production and clinical pharmacy and provides and exciting opportunity to interface between these two critical areas in the delivery of SACT to adult patients. You will be joining an existing team of pharmacists, technicians, assistants and pharmacist practitioners providing direct care to oncology patients.
You will be an integral part of the Pharmacy and Oncology service, working alongside pharmacy, medical and nursing teams to review patients on anticancer therapies.
Please familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents attached to this advert
Provide specialist technical support to the Cytotoxic Chemotherapy Production Unit (Cytolab) at the City Hospital Campus
With support from the pharmacy production and quality assurance teams ensure the cytotoxic chemotherapy production unit meets all regulatory requirements for the aseptic manufacture and preparation of adult cancer chemotherapy treatments.
Assist the pharmacy production team in the operational delivery of the pharmacy production service at the city hospital campus.
Provide a specialist level patient-facing clinical service to oncology patients
Review adult oncology patients/treatments for both inpatients and outpatients.
Initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions
Improve standards of care for patients
Promote safe and evidenced-based practice
To be a Trust-wide source of information on matters relating to pharmacy production, chemotherapy and the wider speciality; including providing support to advanced practitioners and non-medical prescribers of chemotherapy
The post holder will be based at City campus of NUH and may be required to work cross site to carry out this role effectively.
This post offers you the opportunity to work as part of an established and friendly team in one of the UK's largest and busiest acute NHS teaching hospital Trusts.
NUH is a Cancer Centre providing a regional service to a population of over 3 million. We are a specialist tertiary service for lymphoma, myeloma, germ-cell cancers and sarcomas, as well treating patients with all other malignancies. We have a nationally recognised bone marrow transplant unit for adults with haematological malignancy, a dedicated teenage and young adult unit and are imminently starting a CAR-T service. We actively participate in cancer clinical trials.
With over 17,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification for full details of the role.
To assist in the overall management and development of Pharmacy Production and Clinical Services.
To lead in the provision, management and development of safe chemotherapy production services to patients within NUH and in the wider healthcare environment.
• To partake in specialised clinical pharmacy duties at NUH ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken
• Leadership, management and Divisional/Service support roles
• To line manage and support more junior pharmacists in the listed directorates
• To take full part in the 7 day shifted rota and bank holidays duties
The post holder will be based at the City Hospital Campus but a certain amount of cross campus working will be required to enable the effectiveness of this role as appropriate
This advert closes on Sunday 28 Apr 2024