Advanced Oncology Pharmacist – Electronic Prescribing

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,

Our mission is: Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is: To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Job overview

We are recruiting for an Advanced Oncology Pharmacist - Electronic Prescribing who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

As the Advanced Pharmacist - Electronic Prescribing you will lead, manage and develop the operational pharmacy services to ensure that patients receive safe, high quality and clinical effective pharmaceutical care.

You will be supported to develop their leadership and management skills. Candidates who do not meet all the essential and desirable criteria are welcome to apply for this role and a Band 7 to Band 8A developmental role will be offered.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The role involves leading and managing the strategy, design, and development of the Electronic Prescribing (EP) system for Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT).

It includes maintaining the EP system, electronic referrals, and electronic Patient Reported Outcome Measures for SACT. The postholder provides support and leadership for all aspects of SACT EP. Additionally, they are responsible for facilitating the delivery of the oncology pharmacy service at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, with a particular focus on electronic prescribing.

A key aspect of the role also includes the development of policies and procedures to ensure safe medication practices in relation to electronic prescribing.

Apply specialist knowledge to a designated patient group to develop pharmacist prescribing role, undertaking the clinical management and drug treatment of patients under an agreed clinical management plan following diagnosis by a medical practitioner.

You will promote the safe, clinically effective and cost-effective use of medicines by providing expert advice on oncology pharmacy issues including clinical, funding, and prescribing issues

As a member of pharmacy management team to help deliver a strategic vision for the pharmacy department and business plan in line with cancer centre and trust strategies.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specification

Knowledge

• Clinical Oncology Knowledge
• Writing and maintaining SOPS, reports and performing audits
• Well-developed therapeutic and clinical pharmacy knowledge
• Up to date knowledge of national pharmacy issues
• Ability to use Crystal Report or equivalent to extract information from data tables
• Knowledge of building and validating SACT protocols on electronic prescribing systems
• Knowledge of post graduate education for pharmacists

Previous Experience

• Experience working in Oncology pharmacy
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Proven line management experience
• Experience of SACT Electronic Prescribing systems

• Formal management and leadership training or equivalent experience
• Experience in implementing change and project management
• Experience of working with Chemocare

Qualifications/Training

• Masters Degree MPharm or Equivalent
• Competency assessed and examined professional registration, GPhC
• Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
• Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent (completed both year 1 and year 2)
• Pharmacist Independent Non-medical prescriber (or willing to work towards completion)

Other Requirements

• Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality, values diversity, and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities. Understands the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
• Role model our Trust values every day
• Some flexibility in working hours

Skills

• Can show appropriate applications of clinical knowledge and effective pharmaceutical care skills
• Critical appraisal skills
• Proven presentation skills
• Supervisory skills
• Good team player – able to work alone and supervise others when necessary
• Able to use initiative
• Able to manage services
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Ability to prioritise workload
• Good organisation skills
• Able to work under pressure
• Ability to work independently
• Accurate and precise attention to detail
• Effective computer and IT knowledge and skills
• Demonstrates good use of initiative and self-motivation
• Adaptable to change
• Audit/research and development
• Previous use of chemotherapy electronic prescribing system
• Previous use of blueteq
• Good understanding of cancer drug fund, NICE & ICDFR

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

Include

We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect

We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve

We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing [email protected]

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.

When you apply...

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Secondments/Fixed term

Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.

If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments.