Band 8a Specialist Pharmacist - Haematology / Oncology

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and experienced pharmacist to take up the role of principle pharmacist haematology/oncology at Queens Hospital Romford.

This position provides the opportunity for you to develop your leadership skills while providing specialist cancer pharmacy knowledge in an environment that is dynamic and actively promotes innovation and improvement in providing safe and effective care to our patients.

As a senior pharmacist in haematology/oncology pharmacy services, you will be working closely with senior technicians to deliver a seamless service to inpatient, out-patient and day case unit to cancer patients and provide clinical leadership to this area as a cancer specialist. You will be actively involved in promoting the safe and effective use of cancer drugs as well as developing the clinical cancer pharmacy services.

This role involves participating in the training of pharmacy staff, doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers, ensuring compliance with BOPA standards for the verification of cancer drugs/therapy as well as providing timely drug usage and expenditure information.

The post holder will be responsible for providing and developing comprehensive, patient orientated pharmacy services at ward and outpatient level throughout Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust. He/she will work closely with the Lead Pharmacist for Cancer Services, and other senior colleagues and clinical technicians to ensure the provision of an integrated and efficient service.

The post holder will act as a Senior clinical pharmacist for Cancer and Patient Services within the Trust, with a particular focus on advancing the care provided to patients with cancer.

The post holder will be based within the pharmacy department and will assist in the development of policies, guidelines and protocols under the direction of the Cancer Lead Pharmacist. Personal performance will be assessed through performance review., You will be joining an organisation committed to your development and one of the five Trusts across the country chosen by NHS Improvement to partner with the Virginia Mason Institute. Join us in shaping our services and make a difference.

Our ideal candidate would be a self- motivated pharmacist with good team working and organisational skills. You must have hospital pharmacy experience, preferably some of this working in a UK hospital and must have completed the Postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice. You must also be able to work with senior medical and nursing staff and other health care professionals and manage a busy workload., Disability Confident
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We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.