Rotational Clinical Pharmacist – Band 6 | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 14 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £44,806 - £53,134 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 September 2024 |
| Location: | Cheslea, SW3 6JJ |
| Company: | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6563959/282-SB1246167 |
Summary
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is the largest comprehensive cancer centre in Europe, based across two sites and is ranked as one of the top NHS trusts in the country in the NHS national performance rankings, providing services for patients both locally and across the UK. The Royal Marsden has also been rated as ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our hospitals in Chelsea and Sutton offer both NHS and private patients inpatient and outpatient care for solid tumours and haemato-oncology cancers, including transplants, chemotherapy and clinical trials.
We have optimised our Band 6 clinical pharmacist programme to focus on patient facing clinical aspects of pharmacy care. This exciting opportunity is to join a team of rotational pharmacists concentrating on providing the best possible ward based pharmaceutical care.
Our department strategy is focussed on providing a pioneering and compassionate service while embedding enhanced roles for pharmacy technicians and a maximised non-medical prescribing workforce.
To join our clinical services pharmacy team at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust liaising closely with other pharmacy team members and Hospital staff.
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals – one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey – as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.
At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.
At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
Clinical Pharmacy
a) To provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care, contributing to the multidisciplinary team for clinical units as required, through ward pharmacy services.
b) Promote optimal and appropriate drug use and high quality prescribing practice within the Trust.
c) To attend all relevant events such as Registrar/Consultant rounds/unit meetings as appropriate.
d) To respond appropriately to requests from medical and nursing staff for information and advice about the selection and use of drug therapy.
e) Actively participate in audit, drug use reviews and pharmacoeconomic project work.
f) Participate in any pharmacy initiatives or working groups as appropriate.
g) To support the Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager with the Clinical Governance and Risk Management Strategy within the department and throughout the Trust
g) Participate in pharmacy initiatives within the units as appropriate
h) Strive for continuous quality improvement through identifying research questions; developing and contributing to research to further the medicines optimisation agenda in cancer
This advert closes on Wednesday 28 Aug 2024
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