Specialist Pharmacist Practitioner – Oncology | University Hospitals NHS Trust

We are delighted to offer the chance for a pharmacist to join our team as Specialist Pharmacist Practitioner in Adult Oncology, for a period of maternity cover. This role will join an existing team of pharmacist practitioners, embedded within the Oncology MDT in the clinic setting, as an integral part of the Oncology service. You will join the MDT in a specific tumour site, working directly with clinicians and clinical nurse specialists to develop your specialist skills and knowledge, working independently as a practitioner in your specialist area, responsible for your own caseload of patients.

You will support the specialties to ensure the safe and appropriate use of anticancer medicines in-line with national and regional guidelines e.g. by writing treatment protocols for new anticancer medicines and regimens, monitoring medicines expenditure, and inputting on medicines incident reports.

You can expect structured personal development and the opportunity to contribute to the training and supervision of junior pharmacists, including supervising those undergoing their prescribing qualification. You will be fully supported by senior members of the Cancer and other Pharmacy teams.

This post offers you the opportunity to work as part of an established and friendly team in one of the UK's largest and busiest acute NHS teaching hospital Trusts.

Please familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents attached to this advert.

• Provide a specialist level patient-facing clinical service to a defined caseload of patients
• Review patients in an outpatient clinic setting
• Prescribe systemic anticancer therapies (SACT) and supportive treatments
• Initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions
• Improve standards of care for patients
• Promote safe and evidenced-based practice
• Be a Trust-wide source of information on matters relating to SACT and the wider speciality; including providing support to advanced practitioners and non-medical prescribers of SACT
• Attend and actively participate in speciality ward rounds, board rounds, clinics and multidisciplinary team meetings, as appropriate
• Provide specialist advice and guidance on all issues relating to prescribing and therapeutics of medicines and chemotherapy for the specialty ensuring they are in line with national and local guidelines
• Critically evaluate published literature and a variety of medicines related information to inform practice and patient care decisions
• Provide opinion and advice and be a source of referral for chemotherapy issues
• Act as an independent prescriber in a specialist practice area
• Work as an independent prescriber alongside the medical team, contributing to medicines optimisation
• Request and interpret clinical tests to monitor and make recommendations to improve effectiveness of drug therapy
• Pro-actively liaise with other members of the MDT in order to ensure safe use of medicines
• Make recommendations about medicines to improve patient outcomes and to encourage adherence to hospital formulary and national guidelines
• Provide advice and guidance in relation to unlicensed medicines use and clinical trial medicines under the direction of the senior pharmacist for clinical trials
• Ensure the efficient, safe and timely supply of medicines for individual patients during their stay in hospital, and when discharged, improving the patient experience in relation to the medication aspects of hospital discharge
• Continue SACT treatment for cancer and initiate supportive treatments, as appropriate
• Practice as an independent prescriber, provide dose adjustment, advice and prescriptions for SACT medication with a narrow therapeutic range requiring therapeutic effect monitoring, including recording relevant biochemistry results in relevant patient medical records. Record action plans, and adjust doses to account for biochemical or haematological dysfunction and other toxicities.
• Contribute to, facilitate or conduct clinical audits which are part of the Oncology or Pharmacy audit plan
• Participate in research, communicate results and, if suitable, register for a further degree
• Undertake and document continuing professional…