Team Lead Occupational Therapist - Medicine

This post is a permanent position within the haematology team to work closely with the Senior Cancer Pharmacists to manage the growing service. As a world-leading research facility and one of the largest haematology tertiary referral centres, you will collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver cutting edge licensed and clinical trials to malignant and non-malignant haematology patients. As a registered pharmacist, you will provide a person-centred approach to care, and manage specialist pharmacy services to haematology patients undergoing systemic anti-cancer treatment (SACT) or haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for malignant and non-malignant indications. You will collaborate with the Senior Clinical Pharmacist to improve the pharmacy service for these patients and educate pharmacy and multidisciplinary staff on these innovative treatments. The UCLH Cancer Pharmacy Team is a large team across oncology, haematology and transplantation and works well together. Our ideal candidate will :

• help us develop and deliver our vision for a person-centred clinical pharmacy service,
• drive directorate and departmental clinical governance issues, clinical audit, practice research, service improvement projects and more,
• be keen to further their career within cancer services.
Main duties of the job The main day-to-day responsibilities would include :
• To provide highly specialised and complex evidence-based clinical advice and information to the multidisciplinary team on the care and treatment of malignant and non-malignant haematology patients.
• To deliver and promote high-quality, cost-effective, patient-focused pharmaceutical care.
• To provide clinical pharmacy services to malignant and non-malignant haematology patients.
• To promote the safe and secure handling of medicines and clinical governance in the Cancer Division.
• To support the training and development of cancer pharmacists in the field of haematology.
• To support the opening and management of malignant and non-malignant haematology clinical trials.
  
  University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population.
We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research. We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites : University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing) National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals University College Hospital Grafton Way Building Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre The Hospital for Tropical Diseases University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology. We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.