Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Haematology
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has presented for a pharmacist with clinical cancer experience to join our cancer pharmacy team. This post is a permanent position within the haematology team to work closely with the Lead Clinical Pharmacist 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 Lead 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 haematology patients.
- To deliver and promote high quality, cost effective, patient focused pharmaceutical care.
- To manage the day-to-day delivery of clinical pharmacy services to haematology patients.
- To manage cancer pharmacists delivering clinical pharmacy services to haematology patients.
- To support the training and development cancer pharmacists in the field of haematology.
- To support the opening and management of haematology clinical trials.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
The cancer pharmacy team consists of specialist cancer pharmacists and technicians that work for the Cancer Division and is fully integrated within the Division to provide clinical pharmacy services to patients. The team also collaborates closely with the UCLH Pharmacy Department to ensure pharmacy standards are maintained.
UCLH is one of Europe’s largest centres for blood disorder treatment and HSCT, and the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell team manages patients with both cancer and non-cancer indications. The cancer pharmacy team are well integrated into the HSCT and CAR-T teams and they collaborate to deliver person-centred care alongside the multidisciplinary team.
The UCLH Macmillan Cancer Centre (MCC) opened in 2012 and encompasses our busy outpatient clinics and daycare facilities, as well as our growing ambulatory chemotherapy practice. The MCC also provides chemotherapy production services in a modern facility.
The UCLH Grafton Way Building (GWB) opened in 2022 and supports our expanding haematology service, which include HSCT and CAR-T therapy.
The Wolfson Cellular Therapy Unit (WCTU) supports our JACIE-accredited transplant service, as well as the supply of cellular therapy products such as CAR T-cells.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second year running! : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust- In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the second year in a row.
UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second year running! University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.
Person specification
Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential criteria- Master degree in Pharmacy, or equivalent.
- Pharmacist Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent experience and expertise.
- Evidence of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training.
- Independent prescriber, or willingness to undertake an independent prescribing qualification.
- Advanced practitioner as defined by the Faculty of Cancer Pharmacy Advanced and Consultant Level Framework (ACLF).
- Evidence of formal management training.
Experience
Essential criteria- Minimum five years post-registration.
- Minimum of three years’ experience as a clinical pharmacist in a cancer specialty including haematology.
- Experience of verifying prescriptions for systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT).
- Actively seeks to improve the ward and clinical services provided to enhance quality of care to cancer patients.
- Experience as a clinical pharmacist in managing haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) patients including verification of conditioning prescriptions.
- Experience in reviewing and setting up cancer clinical trials including validation of electronic protocols.
- Experience of managing change and driving service improvements.
- Evidence of evaluating own and pharmacy staff’s work to drive and deliver service improvements.
- Participation in multidisciplinary health services research.
- Evidence of publishing in a peer reviewed journal.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria- Effective time management and demonstrates the ability to meet deadlines.
- Excellent ability to prioritise complex workload and work accurately under pressure.
- IT literate, including use of spreadsheets to capture and manipulate data, search for evidence-based practice, presenting complex information.
- Able to identify risks, and develop and manage risk management procedures.
- Demonstrates integration of research evidence into practice.
Communication
Essential criteria- Demonstrates high level clinical knowledge, reasoning, and judgment, manages difficult and ambiguous problems.
- Able to communicate complex, contentious, and sensitive information effectively when using clear written and spoken English.
- Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels both within and beyond pharmacy and the trust.
- Experience at presenting complex information to senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrates ability to influence practice within pharmacy and at a divisional level.
Personal and People Development
Essential criteria- Commitment to continually update skills, knowledge, and expertise; and maintain a portfolio of practice.
- Experience of identifying training needs and delivering education and training programmes for clinical staff groups.
- Ability to delegate authority appropriately.
- Experience of managing staff including objective setting, performance monitoring, recruitment and selection, and managing poor performance.
- Evidence of evaluating own and pharmacy staff’s work to drive and deliver improvements in service quality.
- Ability to motivate team members in the achievement of common goals.
Ensure the risk of infection to self, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors is minimised by:
Essential criteria- Being familiar with, and adhering to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control.
- Completing all required training and education (both via e-learning and face to face) on infection prevention and control.
- Including infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development and included in your annual appraisal.
- Taking personal responsibility so far as is reasonably practicable, in helping ensure that effective prevention and control of health care associated infections is embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently.
At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.
At UCLH we take equality of opportunity seriously and are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer, with a culture that creates a real sense of belonging and trust. It is our fundamental aim, to recruit, retain and promote a diverse mix of people who are representative of our local communities.Applications are encouraged from candidates of all backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives to support our world class research, innovation and creativity.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff and has a dedicated policy which allows staff to apply for flexible working right from the beginning of employment. For more information please go to: https://www.uclh.nhs.uk/work-with-us/why-choose-uclh/flexible-working.
We offer our permanent staff an interest free season ticket loan for travel, all our staff have access to free independent and confidential support, large retail discounts, a staff discount platform, cycle to work scheme and on-site accommodation to name a few.
Additionally, UCLH Arts and Heritage’s staff wellbeing programme, Creative Comfort, offers a variety of ways to engage with the arts as a member of UCLH staff. You can try out the weekly choir, weekly art club and join the Culture Club for exclusive access to free and discounted tickets for opera, exhibitions, theatre and more.
We recognise, reward and thank colleagues by nominating them for our annual Celebrating Excellence Awards, which are funded by UCLH Charity.
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