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Surgical Pharmacist | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £44,806 - £53,134 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 March 2025 |
| Location: | Chelsea, SW3 6JJ |
| Company: | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6996612/282-SB205 |
Summary
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 specialist 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 provide nationally leading, cutting edge, pharmacy and medicines optimisation services to all patients so they receive best, personalised, safe care on time. 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:-
• To provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care, contributing to the multidisciplinary team for clinical units as required, through ward pharmacy services.
• Promote optimal and appropriate drug use and high quality prescribing practice within the Trust.
• To attend all relevant events such as Registrar/Consultant rounds/unit meetings as appropriate.
• To respond appropriately to requests from medical and nursing staff for information and advice about the selection and use of drug therapy.
• Actively participate in audit, drug use reviews and pharmacoeconomic project work.
• Participate in any pharmacy initiatives or working groups as appropriate.
• To support the Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager with the Clinical Governance and Risk Management Strategy within the department and throughout the Trust
• Participate in pharmacy initiatives within the units as appropriate
• 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 Monday 24 Feb 2025
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