Haematology Pharmacist Band 7 / 8a progression

Would you like to be part of something amazing? Would you like to be involved in directly helping cancer patients? Frimley Health is investing in pharmacy staff to manage the increasing demand on pharmacy cancer services. This new post offers security to pharmacists who would like the opportunity to specialise in cancer and progress from a band 7 to a band 8a. Training will be provided to become an accredited cancer pharmacist. We are committed to develop our staff, working closely with our clinical pharmacy and education & training teams. We welcome applications from pharmacists who want to start a career in hospital pharmacy and have a keen interest in the care of cancer patients.
Frimley Health provides haematology and oncology care to patients on an in-patient and outpatient basis across three sites. The sites provide care to patients in Hampshire, Surrey and West Berkshire. This post is based on the Frimley Park Hospital site.
The post holder will provide specialist clinical cancer services to the haematology day unit, haematology clinics, haematology wards, support paediatrics haematology and undertake directorate tasks., The role will involve working within clinical haematology and liaising with pharmacy aseptic services.
The post holder will assist with providing clinical services to haematology and inpatients and outpatients on a daily basis. This will involve working closely with the multidisciplinary team on both the wards, clinics and in the day units.
You should have completed the clinical diploma or equivalent and be committed to continuing professional development within the field.
You must have hospital pharmacy experience involving clinical pharmacy skills preferably in a haematology and oncology setting (but this is not essential)

Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties, To act as a specialist clinical pharmacist in cancer services, providing clinical support to the delivery of chemotherapy prescriptions after completion of competency based assessments.
To support the pharmacy team in understanding the scope of technical services and professional guidance on all matters relating to aseptic preparation of pharmaceutical products within the Trust, including appropriate outsourcing of aseptic products purchased from external providers as appropriate.
To support the cancer services team according to the NHS Long Term Plan ambitions for cancer and to implement Trust policies in relation to the pharmaceutical care of haematology patients.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.