Specialist Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

Due to an exciting redesign of our clinical pharmacy service we have an opportunity for enthusiastic pharmacists to come and join our growing team!

Prior experience in cancer care in not required as you will be fully supported and trained by our friendly, dedicated team; you do require a thirst to learn and a passion to deliver patient centered care.

Clatterbridge is an exciting place to continue your clinical pharmacy journey in a purpose built city center hospital in Liverpool with state of the art facilities, working within a cutting edge clinical environment. This role represents an opportunity to develop and further progress in the rewarding specialty that is cancer care. The successful candidates will also receive mentoring and support to grow as a leader.

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre provides excellent cancer care to patients across the North West (including North Wales and the Isle of Man). We have 3 site locations; the central Liverpool site and hub sites in the Wirral and Aintree.

Working pattern will be 37.5 hours per week which includes weekends. Contribution to the Bank holiday and on-call rota will be part of the post. For a detailed list of our employee benefits, please see the attached documents to this vacancy.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will work alongside medical and nursing colleagues, as part of the Multi Disciplinary Team to deliver direct patient facing care on wards and in outpatient clinics. You will be an integral part of your specialty oncology or haemato-oncology team as well as the wider pharmacy team.

You will also have the opportunity to work within the Aseptic Production Unit, quality assessing and releasing chemotherapy and in our wholly owned subsidiary, developing leadership skills as the Responsible Pharmacist.

We can offer you;

• The opportunity to undertake a non medical prescribing qualification
• Fully structured training and support to develop expertise in cancer care
• Development of your leadership skills within product release and our wholly owned subsidiary, PharmaC
• Mentorship from our friendly team of advanced level specialist pharmacists
• The chance to work in a purpose built, cutting edge, new build hospital
• The opportunity to work at the forefront of exciting new treatments and technologies
• A supportive environment with opportunities to progress and further your career.

About us

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is one of three specialist cancer centres in England. With 1,800 specialist staff and three sites, we are one of the largest NHS providers of non-surgical cancer treatment. The Trust has a unique multi-site care model serving the 2.4 million population across Cheshire and Merseyside and is consistently rated by patients as one of the best performing hospitals.

Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do.

Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.

We are -

• Kind
• Empowered
• Responsible
• Inclusive