Specialist Pharmacist- Multiple Roles

Key roles include:

• Delivery of high quality pharmaceutical care to adult cancer in-patients, day-case, and out-patients.
• Participation in pharmacy services to the Day Treatment Unit to optimise patients' medication and reduce medicines wastage.
• Clinical checking of systemic anticancer treatment (SACT) and SACT clinical trial prescriptions.
• Participating in multidisciplinary ward rounds
• Pharmacist led oral anti-cancer treatment education clinics
• Pharmacist non-medical prescribing in multidisciplinary clinics and day treatment unit
• Aseptics experience within Pharmacy's Clinical Trials Aseptic Services Unit (CTASU)
• Participating in the day to day running of the CTASU and developing knowledge in quality control and quality assurance.
• Involvement in cancer phase I, II, and III clinical trials
• Active participation in Thames Valley Cancer Alliance groups
The post holder will participate in the band 7 cancer pharmacist rotation which currently includes rotations through:
• Oncology Ward
• Haematology Ward
• Day Treatment Unit (Oncology & Haematology)
• SACT prescription clinical screening
• Early phase/Late phase research & SACT clinical trials screening
• Brodey Chemotherapy Day Unit, Horton Hospital, Banbury
• Clinical Trials Aseptics Unit
• Cancer Clinical Trials Set Up
• Palliative Care
• Directorate rotation
  
  Qualified to a degree level (4 year MPharm or equivalent) and Pharmacist registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Diploma / MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience
• Experience of working as a clinical pharmacis
• Problem identification and solving skills
• Well organised
• Good Time Management
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Ability to prioritise and manage time effectively
• Good interpersonal skills
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
• Sensitivity and tolerance
• Enthusiastic and self-motivated
• Team worker
• Must demonstrate flexibility in working practices
• Experience of teaching and tutoring
• Must be assertive
Desirable criteria
• Understands national priorities in cancer care
• Demonstrable awareness of current cancer issues such as administration of intrathecal chemotherapy and the Manual of Cancer Quality Measures
• Membership of British Oncology Pharmacy Association (BOPA)
• Experience of preparing budgetary reports for clinical areas
• Demonstrable awareness of financial pressures
• Accredited tutor for Cardiff University Clinical Pharmacy Diploma
• Involvement in a pharmacist led outpatient clini
• Experience of practice research
• Publication / conference presentations
• Accredited Non-medical prescriber
• Involvement in developing a service
• Experience of developing drug protocols /contributing to formulary development, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel., We are looking for intuitive, enthusiastic and versatile pharmacists to join our diverse and inclusive team to help us deliver excellent compassionate care to our patients. The pharmacy department at OUH comprises of over 100 staff in the clinical pharmacy team, and we work across all 4 hospital sites. We are continually trying to improve the service we provide, learning from each other to optimise what we do., Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.