Job summary
As a result of an expanding regional oncology service and development of the supporting pharmacy infrastructure we are offering an exciting opportunity to join our team of pharmacists, technicians and MMAs within cancer services at STH.
This is an exciting opportunity for a consultant pharmacist to lead clinical practice to Oncology patients under the care of STH across the Cancer Alliance. The post holder will have mastery level expert practice and will manage a cohort of patients under the clinical supervision of the lead consultant for the disease site. They will provide strategic advice to improve the quality of chemotherapy prescribing and patient experience. With significant clinical leadership experience, they will lead service improvement, deliver education and mentoring across the cancer Alliance and deliver their own research activity.
Please note we are also willing to consider candidates who don't meet all the essential criteria as a progression against agreed milestones will be considered on an Annex 21 of Agenda for Change Basis.
This post is in development for submission to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society for accreditation as a Consultant Pharmacist post at the next committee.
Main duties of the job
JOB PURPOSE
The post of Consultant Pharmacist for Oncology will be expected to provide expert level care to patients across the South Yorkshire, Bassetlaw and North Derbyshire Cancer Alliance. Based within Weston Park they will have their own caseload of patients in a specified solid tumour site, including to outreach services as appropriate
The successful candidate would be expected to complete the RPS consultant level credentialing process and will use the title consultant pharmacist once both the post and the successful candidate have completed credentialling. Due to the expanding service successful applicants will be expected to work regular weekends within clinical pharmacy at Weston Park.
About us
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
The pharmacy department at Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust comprises of approximately 450 staff working across 5 sites delivering care to patients from all over the country. We are keen to appoint enthusiastic and knowledgeable individuals to help us to continue to provide a first class service.
STH provides Oncology Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy services to a population of around 2 million patients primarily from South Yorkshire and North East Derbyshire via a hub and spoke model based at Weston Park Cancer centre. Weston Park cancer centre is a specialist tertiary referral unit with 3 inpatient wards including a specialist teenage cancer unit, as well as 37 chair day case unit and clinical trial unit supporting the Sheffield Experimental Cancer Medicines Centre.
Cancer services at STH are undergoing an exciting period of transformation with wholesale review of how services are delivered focusing on treatment closer to home and development of off-site SACT services, and renovation of the Weston Park building including the recent approval of a new multi-million pound pharmacy aseptic unit.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The post is structured around four main functions:
Expert Practice
- Fulfil the role of Consultant Pharmacist, providing leadership for the pharmaceutical aspects of SACT use in the Trust. Provide information and advice on therapeutic and cost- effectiveness measures and guide doctors and other prescribers in the composition of appropriate drug treatments for individual patients in accordance with guidance from NICE, Trust Policy and other guidelines.
- Responsible for the clinical management of a cohort of patients within STH or outreach services within a specific tumour site under the clinical supervision of the lead Consultant
- Fulfil the role of highly specialist pharmacy practitioner for patients requiring SACT therapy, developing and evaluating pharmaceutical care for patients across the Trust and beyond.
- Review prescriptions, challenge treatment choices and communicate highly complex drug and therapeutic information to senior clinicians, senior managers and other professionals in order to influence treatment options and ensure compliance with medicines legislation and avoid errors and side effects.
Professional Leadership
- To be recognised as an expert within Oncology clinical pharmacy, locally and nationally and/or internationally, demonstrating active participation in creating national healthcare policies and motivating others.
- Interpret national guidance to advise the Trust on strategies to comply with national targets or statements.
- Identify and prioritise innovative strategic development of the clinical pharmacy service to Oncology across both STH and the wider outreach services, setting long term goals in line with local and national strategy and standards, identifying and managing the risks involved and working with colleagues to extend boundaries across professions and develop overall clinical pharmacy strategy across the trust, convincing others to share the vision at a higher level.
- Provide strategic advice regarding the planning of future clinical pharmacy workforce requirements.
Education and Mentorship
- Contribute to national workforce strategy and support implementation across the Cancer Alliance
- Design, deliver and evaluate education and training for the wider healthcare team, supporting and developing the wider workforce
- To be involved in the of development and/or delivery of higher education qualifications, thereby contributing to national education policy
- Work with Higher Education institutes or specialist training association to further strategically develop scholarly activities at both undergraduate and postgraduate level to ensure clinical pharmacy practitioners are both competent and confident
Research, Evaluation and Service development
- To be aware of and adhere to the Clinical Governance agenda and contribute to monitoring safe, effective and economical use of medicines following national and local guidelines, working with appropriate colleagues.
- Act as an investigator for incidents and Serious Incidents across the Trust.
- Ensure Cancer services pharmacy staff and networks are involved in clinical governance in medicines use, including audit of medicines use and review of medication incidents and other aspects of medicines safety.
- Lead on and participate in clinical audits, quality improvement projects and development and implementation of treatment protocols and guidelines for the use of SACT within the Cancer Alliance using quality improvement skills and methodology where required and linked with local/regional QI groups/bodies.
Other duties
- Maintain advanced level pharmacy competencies relevant to clinical practice in oncology
- Contribute to the Weston Park clinical pharmacy weekend service, providing prescribing advice for prescribers and pharmacy staff resolving oncology clinical queries
- Perform other pharmaceutical duties as required by the Senior Pharmacy Management team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The post is structured around four main functions:
Expert Practice
- Fulfil the role of Consultant Pharmacist, providing leadership for the pharmaceutical aspects of SACT use in the Trust. Provide information and advice on therapeutic and cost- effectiveness measures and guide doctors and other prescribers in the composition of appropriate drug treatments for individual patients in accordance with guidance from NICE, Trust Policy and other guidelines.
- Responsible for the clinical management of a cohort of patients within STH or outreach services within a specific tumour site under the clinical supervision of the lead Consultant
- Fulfil the role of highly specialist pharmacy practitioner for patients requiring SACT therapy, developing and evaluating pharmaceutical care for patients across the Trust and beyond.
- Review prescriptions, challenge treatment choices and communicate highly complex drug and therapeutic information to senior clinicians, senior managers and other professionals in order to influence treatment options and ensure compliance with medicines legislation and avoid errors and side effects.
Professional Leadership
- To be recognised as an expert within Oncology clinical pharmacy, locally and nationally and/or internationally, demonstrating active participation in creating national healthcare policies and motivating others.
- Interpret national guidance to advise the Trust on strategies to comply with national targets or statements.
- Identify and prioritise innovative strategic development of the clinical pharmacy service to Oncology across both STH and the wider outreach services, setting long term goals in line with local and national strategy and standards, identifying and managing the risks involved and working with colleagues to extend boundaries across professions and develop overall clinical pharmacy strategy across the trust, convincing others to share the vision at a higher level.
- Provide strategic advice regarding the planning of future clinical pharmacy workforce requirements.
Education and Mentorship
- Contribute to national workforce strategy and support implementation across the Cancer Alliance
- Design, deliver and evaluate education and training for the wider healthcare team, supporting and developing the wider workforce
- To be involved in the of development and/or delivery of higher education qualifications, thereby contributing to national education policy
- Work with Higher Education institutes or specialist training association to further strategically develop scholarly activities at both undergraduate and postgraduate level to ensure clinical pharmacy practitioners are both competent and confident
Research, Evaluation and Service development
- To be aware of and adhere to the Clinical Governance agenda and contribute to monitoring safe, effective and economical use of medicines following national and local guidelines, working with appropriate colleagues.
- Act as an investigator for incidents and Serious Incidents across the Trust.
- Ensure Cancer services pharmacy staff and networks are involved in clinical governance in medicines use, including audit of medicines use and review of medication incidents and other aspects of medicines safety.
- Lead on and participate in clinical audits, quality improvement projects and development and implementation of treatment protocols and guidelines for the use of SACT within the Cancer Alliance using quality improvement skills and methodology where required and linked with local/regional QI groups/bodies.
Other duties
- Maintain advanced level pharmacy competencies relevant to clinical practice in oncology
- Contribute to the Weston Park clinical pharmacy weekend service, providing prescribing advice for prescribers and pharmacy staff resolving oncology clinical queries
- Perform other pharmaceutical duties as required by the Senior Pharmacy Management team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- Pharmacist registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
- Independent Prescriber or working towards this with a view to qualification within 12 months (or willingness to work towards this)
- Meet the requirements of the RPS Faculty cancer care expert professional practice curriculum
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Membership of the British Oncology Pharmacy Association
- Demonstrated ability to work at Doctorate level
Desirable
- Post Graduate qualification in Oncology or Haematology
- Management, leadership or quality improvement training
- Formal teaching training
- DPharm, PhD or undertaking study at doctorate level
Experience
Essential
- A majority of competencies in each of the expert professional practice, collaborative working relationships and leadership clusters at the highest level (mastery) as defined in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Advanced Pharmacy Framework (APF).
- A majority of the competencies in each of the management, education, training and development and research and evaluation clusters at the Advanced Stage II as defined in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Advanced Pharmacy Framework (APF).
- Extensive clinical pharmacy experience within Cancer services and evidence of ability to plan complex pharmaceutical care programmes for patients
- Experience of designing, delivering and evaluating education programmes to both pharmacy and non-pharmacy professionals.
- Experience of leadership skills in highly complex projects and change management skills
- Report and business case writing for a Board level audience
- Experience of working successfully with a range of stakeholders outside NHS structure eg. industry, service users, Higher Education institutions, and funders of Management experience research
- Proven medicines and risk related policy development, service development, implementation and project management.
- Demonstrates ability to horizon scan and forecast in relation to developments in Oncology
- Evidence of involvement in research activities eg. advanced audits, quality improvement projects, poster presentations or publications including multidisciplinary collaboration
Desirable
- Experience of using trust chemotherapy e-prescribing system (Chemocare) or equivalent
- Experience of work at national level
- Financial planning
- Evidence of peer reviewed publications
Further Training
Essential
- Clinical trials experience and/or GCP training
Desirable
- Quality improvement training
Special Skills/Aptitudes
Essential
- Demonstrates accountability for the delivery of professional expertise at a defined higher level
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to analyse, interpret and communicate highly complex clinical and technical information in an informative manner to a wide range of individuals
- Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the clinical governance agenda
- Ability to interpret national policy to design strategies for local workforce planning
- Ability to engage, motivate and lead a wide range of professionals
- Team player but also able to work autonomously
- Ability to work in a pressured environment, with an unpredictable workload
- Highly developed leadership skills
- Inspires confidence and positive role model
- Proven ability to respond and shape resources (financial, people) to deliver strategic priorities.
- Demonstrates ability to influence and educate at a high level
- Demonstrates ability to effectively mentor others within the team and/or service
- Facilitates the professional development of others.
- Participates in education and training in an external environment.
- Demonstrates ability to successfully manage a project at team, and/or service level, prioritise and meet deadlines
- Use skills to manage difficult and dynamic situations
- Able to demonstrate ability to apply research and evidence-based practice within the team and/or service.
- Demonstrates application of critical evaluation skills in the context of working practice
- Demonstrates ability to establish new multidisciplinary links to conduct research projects
- Expert IT skills
- Committed to life-long learning
Desirable
- Proven track record of budget management or monitoring ability and demonstrable success in identifying and achieving savings
- Experience of staff management
- Demonstrates ability to successfully manage a project at regional level
- Demonstrates ability to extend the boundaries of the service across more than one team.
- Demonstrates understanding of culture and climate and ability to plan with the whole of the organisation in mind.
- Understanding of health economics
Other Factors
Essential
- Must be able to demonstrate examples of PROUD Values and Behaviours under each domain
- Must be able to visit wards and department sin the hospital and work in our other sites across the cancer alliance
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- Pharmacist registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
- Independent Prescriber or working towards this with a view to qualification within 12 months (or willingness to work towards this)
- Meet the requirements of the RPS Faculty cancer care expert professional practice curriculum
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Membership of the British Oncology Pharmacy Association
- Demonstrated ability to work at Doctorate level
Desirable
- Post Graduate qualification in Oncology or Haematology
- Management, leadership or quality improvement training
- Formal teaching training
- DPharm, PhD or undertaking study at doctorate level
Experience
Essential
- A majority of competencies in each of the expert professional practice, collaborative working relationships and leadership clusters at the highest level (mastery) as defined in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Advanced Pharmacy Framework (APF).
- A majority of the competencies in each of the management, education, training and development and research and evaluation clusters at the Advanced Stage II as defined in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Advanced Pharmacy Framework (APF).
- Extensive clinical pharmacy experience within Cancer services and evidence of ability to plan complex pharmaceutical care programmes for patients
- Experience of designing, delivering and evaluating education programmes to both pharmacy and non-pharmacy professionals.
- Experience of leadership skills in highly complex projects and change management skills
- Report and business case writing for a Board level audience
- Experience of working successfully with a range of stakeholders outside NHS structure eg. industry, service users, Higher Education institutions, and funders of Management experience research
- Proven medicines and risk related policy development, service development, implementation and project management.
- Demonstrates ability to horizon scan and forecast in relation to developments in Oncology
- Evidence of involvement in research activities eg. advanced audits, quality improvement projects, poster presentations or publications including multidisciplinary collaboration
Desirable
- Experience of using trust chemotherapy e-prescribing system (Chemocare) or equivalent
- Experience of work at national level
- Financial planning
- Evidence of peer reviewed publications
Further Training
Essential
- Clinical trials experience and/or GCP training
Desirable
- Quality improvement training
Special Skills/Aptitudes
Essential
- Demonstrates accountability for the delivery of professional expertise at a defined higher level
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to analyse, interpret and communicate highly complex clinical and technical information in an informative manner to a wide range of individuals
- Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the clinical governance agenda
- Ability to interpret national policy to design strategies for local workforce planning
- Ability to engage, motivate and lead a wide range of professionals
- Team player but also able to work autonomously
- Ability to work in a pressured environment, with an unpredictable workload
- Highly developed leadership skills
- Inspires confidence and positive role model
- Proven ability to respond and shape resources (financial, people) to deliver strategic priorities.
- Demonstrates ability to influence and educate at a high level
- Demonstrates ability to effectively mentor others within the team and/or service
- Facilitates the professional development of others.
- Participates in education and training in an external environment.
- Demonstrates ability to successfully manage a project at team, and/or service level, prioritise and meet deadlines
- Use skills to manage difficult and dynamic situations
- Able to demonstrate ability to apply research and evidence-based practice within the team and/or service.
- Demonstrates application of critical evaluation skills in the context of working practice
- Demonstrates ability to establish new multidisciplinary links to conduct research projects
- Expert IT skills
- Committed to life-long learning
Desirable
- Proven track record of budget management or monitoring ability and demonstrable success in identifying and achieving savings
- Experience of staff management
- Demonstrates ability to successfully manage a project at regional level
- Demonstrates ability to extend the boundaries of the service across more than one team.
- Demonstrates understanding of culture and climate and ability to plan with the whole of the organisation in mind.
- Understanding of health economics
Other Factors
Essential
- Must be able to demonstrate examples of PROUD Values and Behaviours under each domain
- Must be able to visit wards and department sin the hospital and work in our other sites across the cancer alliance
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
