Senior Pharmacist - Cancer Services | University Hospitals NHS Trust

Job Summary

To partake in clinical pharmacy duties, ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken in the Cancer team

Leadership, management and Divisional/Specialty support roles

To line manage and support more junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in pharmacy Cancer team

To take full part in the 7 day shifted rota and bank holidays duties

The post holder will be predominantly based at the Nottingham City Hospital Campus.

• Core clinical pharmacy activities
• To work in accordance with relevant pharmacy and Trust policies and procedures relating to the management of medicines.
• To ensure safe, rational and effective prescribing by undertaking medication reconciliation, assessing suitability of prescribed medication (including chemotherapy and associated medicines), enabling use of patient’s own medicines and patient self‑administration, counselling (to optimise medicines use), and ensuring continuity of patient care at transitions of care
• Providing medicines for individual patients during their stay in hospital, at discharge and during day case and out‑patient visits
• Interpreting and requesting clinical tests to monitor and make recommendations to improve effectiveness and safety of drug therapy
• Proactively liaison with other members of the multidisciplinary team (medical staff, nurses, microbiologists, physiotherapists, dietitians etc) in order to ensure safe and effective use of medicines
• Actively make recommendations about medicines to improve patient outcomes and to encourage adherence to hospital formulary and national guidelines
• Providing advice and guidance in relation to the prescribing of unlicensed and clinical trial medicines under the direction of the senior pharmacist for clinical trials
• To professionally screen prescriptions for Systemic Anticancer Therapy in accordance with local and national guidelines
• To support the Pharmacy Production Services when required, predominantly in a checking role
• To contribute to, facilitate or conduct clinical audits according to the Pharmacy audit plan
• To participate in research, communicate results and if suitable register for a further degree
• To act as lead pharmacist for a specified area within the cancer pharmacy team
• To undertake and document continuing professional development
• To contribute to the teaching and training of undergraduate, postgraduate students and other healthcare professionals
• To undertake any other duties that may reasonably be required as agreed by senior staff
• Support the Divisional Lead and specialist clinical pharmacists in delivering clinical pharmacy and medicines management services to the assigned clinical specialties
• Liaise and work alongside relevant pharmacy colleagues and directorate staff and managers in ensuring continuity and development of clinical pharmacy services within the specialty
• Maintain contact with and actively participate in regional and national specialty groups, and in also identifying best practice and incorporating it into NUH practice
• Support the Divisional Lead and Assistant Head of Pharmacy (Clinical Services Lead) in delivering the ‘best possible clinical pharmacy service’
• Support the Assistant Clinical Services Lead and Assistant Head of Pharmacy (Clinical Services Lead) by developing KPIs that clearly demonstrate the contribution made by the pharmacy team
• Report all KPIs (delivered by the clinical pharmacy service) at regular intervals, as directed by the Assistant Head of Pharmacy – clinical services lead e.g. activity data, contributions, service development contributions etc.
• Deputise for the relevant specialist clinical pharmacist(s) in the cluster in relation to issues linked to the cluster e.g. attending relevant specialty meetings
• Supporting the respective specialist clinical pharmacist(s) in the submission of business cases to secure funding for service developments/new pharmacy posts within the specialty
• Assist specialist clinical pharmacists in monitoring drug usage, prescribing patterns and expenditure in order to support the service in achieving a balanced drugs budget and planning for new drug developments
• To contribute to the multidisciplinary identification,…