Principal Clinical Pharmacist - Cancer Services

Are you an enthusiastic pharmacist with Oncology experience looking for your next challenge?

Service innovation & Trust investment has created a new pharmacist role to better enhance service delivery. You will be key in providing cross-site senior leadership & delivery of the clinical oncology and haematology pharmacy service whilst taking on the responsibility of ensuring wider support to the Pharmacy Senior Leadership Team in the delivery & development of the clinical pharmacy service.

This post will serve the Ipswich and Colchester oncology and haematology sites within ESNEFT, therefore you will work cross site, but with a base site of Ipswich Hospital. You will have the opportunity to use your skills & clinical expertise to model this new job role in accordance with the departmental vision.

ESNEFT is about to embark on the implementation of the EPIC electronic patient record which includes electronic prescribing & administration as well as pharmacy stock control system. It is envisaged that this new role will play a key supportive role within this process moving forward.

In addition to our fully automated dispensaries we host one of the NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service medicines advice sites & the Regional Pharmacy Manufacturing Unit (including a brand new Aseptic facility).

Both sites offer oncology and haematology treatments for all main tumour sites including a bone marrow transplantation service at Ipswich.

Main duties of the job

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Be the principal pharmacist for Oncology and Haematology CDG, working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure the optimal and cost effective use of medicines across the service; minimising drug wastage and managing the use of high-cost medicines accordingly.

Provide an advanced level clinical pharmacy service to the CDG in line with the Trust and pharmacy Key Performance Indicators, agreed clinical standards and medicines legislation.

Provide ongoing clinical support, leadership and guidance to pharmacy colleagues contributing to the clinical pharmacy service within the oncology and haematology CDG.

Develop clinical pharmacy input into the Oncology and Haematology CDG and provide departmental leadership into this speciality. This will involve close collaboration with colleagues from the each hospital site to ensure cross-site consistency of practice within the speciality.

Take responsibility for delivering, managing and assisting in the development of clinical pharmacy services.

Be integral in the development of, and maintenance of, the digital medicines agenda within Pharmacy.

Provide senior support and leadership in the absence of the Associate Chief Pharmacist at the Ipswich hospital site.

You will be the Accountable Pharmacist (after development in post) for the Chemotherapy Production Unit in Ipswich Hospital.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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