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Principal Pharmacist, Haematology | Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 27 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £67,950 - £78,028 pa incl of Outer London HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 September 2024 |
| Location: | Kingston, KT2 7QB |
| Company: | Kingston Hospital Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6581764/396-NN-6581764-ACS-Z |
Summary
Join our fantastic team at Kingston Hospital as a Principal Pharmacist in the Adult Haemato-Oncology Unit and step into a supportive environment that fosters growth, development, and innovation.
Your role will involve leading the pharmacy Haem-Onc service in the delivery of specialised medicines, medicines optimisation, mentoring colleagues, and leading on innovation and service development. You will also be involved in providing specialist support to the trust haematology service.
Do you think on your feet, excel in teamwork, and have a knack for innovation? This could just be the role you've been looking for...
As a catalyst for change, you will use your expertise to ensure patient safety, medicines optimisation, and treatment success. You will serve as a trusted advisor, providing invaluable pharmaceutical insights related to haemato-oncology/ haematology treatments to our medical and nursing staff. You will be a leader in the pharmacy and haem-onc teams and act as a role model and expert in the haem-onc/ haematology pharmacy field to ensure consistently high standards of our clinical pharmacy service.
You will play a crucial role in the development and training of our pharmacy staff, developing the non-medical prescribing service for the specialty, providing chemotherapy training, training pre-registration and junior pharmacists, and contributing to medical and nursing staff e-prescribing training. You will also line manage the senior pharmacist in the service and supervise band 7 Pharmacists on rotation.
To find out more about what this job involves or for an informal site visit, contact –
Paul Bullock (Deputy Chief Pharmacist) on 020 8934 3738 or via Email: paulbullock@nhs.net
The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred which puts safety first and where all staff take responsibility, are valued and value each other. To support this, our five values are that we are all:
Caring– we design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants
Safe– we make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern (safety comes first)
Responsible– all staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation
Value each other– we all value each other’s contribution
Inspiring– we always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients
Provide an expert pharmacy service to patients in the haematology & haemato-oncology service.
Act as a role model and local / regional expert in the haematology/ haemato-oncology pharmacy field and ensure consistently high standards of clinical pharmacy service at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in line with corporate objectives and the NHS Plan.
Support education and training in medicines optimisation for the multidisciplinary team in Haematology/ Haemato-Oncology
Accept case referrals and provide expert opinion on medicines(s) issues where appropriate in haematology/ haemato-oncology. Support haematology services in providing effective clinical governance to manage risk, develop education and training pathways and embed clinical audit practices to ensure safe delivery of medicines service.
Undertake research into medicines use in haematology and lead on the development and embedding of research practices in the haemato-oncology pharmacy team.
This advert closes on Tuesday 10 Sep 2024