Specialist Clinical Trials Pharmacist

Overview

A fantastic opportunity has emerged for a passionate, highly motivated, and dynamic pharmacist to join the pharmacy clinical trials team at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. This position is based in Sutton but may require work at our Chelsea site to ensure consistent coverage and timely service during absences and annual leave. Applicants should have experience in clinical trials, with oncology or haemato-oncology experience advantageous.

You will be part of a team of Pharmacists, Technicians and Assistants, working within a Multi-Disciplinary Team to deliver outstanding care. The team supports the research strategy of taking personalized cancer treatment to the next level, with approximately 380 active IMP studies and increasingly complex new clinical trials across all specialties, including gene therapies and cellular therapies studies.

• Maintain and support the Clinical Trials service in accordance with current UK Clinical Trial Regulations, the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulation 2004 (EU Clinical Trial Directive) and all updates, together with ICH GCP guidelines and departmental procedures, ensuring a high-quality service to patients and staff at the Royal Marsden.
• Be responsible for managing and coordinating all aspects of Clinical Trials Pharmacy Dispensary/Day units/Wards at Chelsea & Sutton as required, ensuring supply of Investigational Medicinal Products (IMPs) is undertaken in accordance with current legislation and best practice guidelines, with appropriate handling of IMPs to safeguard patients, staff and the Trust.
• Work closely with the research team, providing high-level specialist advice in prescribing and management of adverse events of IMPs in line with the clinical trial protocol.
• Lead on pharmaceutical and clinical issues relating to trial medicines management within the Dispensary/Day units/Wards at Chelsea & Sutton as required, ensuring adherence to national guidelines and medicines legislation.

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers and have two hospitals – one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey – as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital. We welcome flexible working requests from point of hire and support employees’ work-life balance.

We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.

For further information please refer to the job description and person specification

• Responsible for ensuring that all pharmacy aspects of Clinical Trials are carried out to the highest practicable standards of ICH Good Clinical Practice Guidelines and statutory national guidance.
• Proactively develop the pharmacy service in line with trust priorities and regional/national objectives, identifying opportunities to develop pharmacy services to match identified needs and promote the ongoing initiative to continually improve Clinical Trials services and patient experience.
• Assist the Lead Pharmacist, Clinical R&D in the review of RMH/ICR sponsored protocols prior to submission to the Committee for Clinical Research (CCR) and attend CCR as the pharmacy representative when studies are reviewed.
• Identify systematic or preventable errors related to medicines used within the Clinical Trial service and work with Dispensary/Day units/Wards and nursing teams to minimise recurrence.
• Maintain pharmacy clinical trial database for activity and support the Lead Pharmacist, Clinical R&D to produce quarterly trial activity reports, identifying capacity issues and resource requirements and highlighting potential cost savings.
• Liaise with pharmaceutical companies over initiation, management and external audit inspection of Clinical Trials.

• GPhC registration
• Non-medical prescriber
• Good Clinical Practice Training and knowledge

• Clinical Trials experience
• Oncology or Haemato-Oncology Pharmacy experience

• Evidence of effective interpersonal skills…