Lead Pharmacist, Clinical Research & Development | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 24 January 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £70,387 - £80,465 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 February 2025 |
| Location: | Chelsea, SW3 6JJ |
| Company: | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6951971/282-SB116 |
Summary
Band 8b Lead Pharmacist, Clinical Research and Development
Location: Chelsea (Expected to provide cross-site coverage if needed).
A fantastic opportunity has emerged for a passionate, highly motivated, and dynamic pharmacist to lead the clinical trials pharmacist team at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust (Chelsea Site).
This is an exciting time to join the Royal Marsden Hospital Clinical Trials Department. Our service is built around providing a high-quality service to our patients and staff of the Trust.
The Royal Marsden is a world-leading cancer centre with two hospitals: one in Chelsea, London, and another in Sutton, Surrey. We also have a satellite Medical Day Care Unit located on the grounds of Kingston Hospital, Surrey.
This position will be based in Sutton but will require working at our Chelsea site, when necessary, to ensure consistent leadership and maintain the quality and speed of service during absences and annual leave.
Applicants must have significant previous experience in clinical trials.
You will lead a team of pharmacists, and work collaboratively with senior pharmacy technicians, to develop and deliver our pharmacy clinical trials service at our Sutton site. You will work collaboratively as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team to ensure we always deliver outstanding care to our patients.
If you would like to discuss this post further, please contact:
Ilves Sanna, Lead Pharmacist, Clinical Research & Development
(ilves.sanna@rmh.nhs.uk) ext 4799
• To act as lead Pharmacist for Trust Research & Development (R&D), including by delegation for individual clinical trials
• Responsible for the leadership and strategic development of the pharmacy clinical trials service across the Trust, including clinical education, training and research
• Responsible for the overall governance of clinical trials in Pharmacy, ensuring regulatory requirements are met
• Responsible for ensuring all necessary Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are in place, reviewed and updated in relation to Clinical Research & Development (R&D)
• Lead and manage the Pharmacy Clinical Trial service in accordance with current UK Clinical Trial Regulations, the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) regulation 2004, the EU Clinical Trial Directive (2001) and all updates, together with ICH GCP guidelines and departmental procedures and ensure provision of a high quality service to patients and staff at the Royal Marsden
• To ensure standards agreed for the clinical trial pharmacy service are met, ensuring performance is monitored and that services are provided efficiently, to the required GCP standards, and in accordance with the needs of users
• Key member of several Trust R&D multidisciplinary groups
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 :-
• To act as the pharmacy champion at all regional, NHS England and local meetings relevant to Clinical Trials service delivery.
• To establish and maintain highly effective communication routes in line with the needs of the diverse range of stakeholder interests.
• To lead in the development of relationships with other pharmacists leading pharmacy clinical trials services, developing a strong understanding of the provision of pharmacy clinical trials services nationally, developing opportunities for collaboration.
• To effectively work across the boundaries to encourage and support the implementation of creative and innovative service models and ideas
• To provide professional leadership and support to pharmacists within the clinical trials team and wider across The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
• Devise policies and procedure in conjunction with stakeholders ensuring the adoption of best practice methodology
• To attend multidisciplinary meetings and provide pharmacy clinical trials guidance when required
• To work with the Clinical Trials and Aseptic Services Operations Manager to continuously evaluate the existing service and to make suggestions to the Chief Pharmacist for improvement
This advert closes on Friday 7 Feb 2025
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