Job summary
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.
We are offering an exciting opportunity to lead on aseptic chemotherapy services at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (STH). The post holder will act as the principal pharmacist for aseptic chemotherapy services. They will lead and develop the pharmacy aseptic and cytotoxic preparation service of the trust to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost-efficient use of chemotherapy and novel agents. They will be expected to act as the expert in all matters pertaining to aseptic dispensing for cancer patients at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. The postholder will manage staff working in the aseptic unit at Weston Park Hospital
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced pharmacist who wishes to move into a pharmacy leadership role in aseptic services. The applicant will be required to undertake service review and development, provide expert pharmaceutical advice at trust level in relation to chemotherapy and aseptic services, work across professional and regional boundaries, influence practice, and manage, motivate, and inspire staff. The successful applicant should also have excellent interpersonal and leadership skills and demonstrate exemplary PROUD values.
Main duties of the job
- To be the Lead Pharmacist for the chemotherapy aseptic preparation unit at STH, providing clinical, professional and managerial leadership
- Undertake the role of Accountable Pharmacist for the Weston Park aseptic unit as per GMP/QAAPS.
- Develop regular briefing documents for the Operations Manager and Chief Pharmacist detailing a summary of service provision, environmental monitor results, CAPA, QER and workload statistics.
- To be responsible for ordering outsourced chemotherapy, helping develop QA/QC paperwork, technical agreements and to assess usage
- To oversee the handling of unlicensed medicines within the Weston Park aseptic unit, working closely with QC and senior pharmacy managers to ensure STH ULM policy is adhered to.
- To be responsible for safety and security of equipment in use and kept in aseptic areas in Weston Park Hospital
- To produce Standard Operating Procedures, worksheets and other documentation relevant to aseptic dispensing and working with isolator technology
- To manage the recruitment, individual performance reviews, annual leave and sickness absence monitoring, capability, disciplinary and grievance matters
- To validate and clinically check chemotherapy prescriptions and technically release chemotherapy for patients in STH, including those on clinical trials
- To have professional responsibility for the preparation and supply of Clinical Trial medications from the Weston Park aseptic unit, ensuring protocols and guidance are followed.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- MPharm
- Higher degree / Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent post graduate diploma in specialist area
Desirable
- Registered Independent prescriber
Experience
Essential
- Extensive clinical experience post qualification in secondary care. Including in depth experience in a clinical specialty and leadership of clinical pharmacy services within that area
- Experience of supervision, mentorship or management of staff. Experience of implementing HR policies
- Experience of leadership, delivery and evaluation of pharmacy projects with multidisciplinary implications
Desirable
- Experience of staff management
- Experience of working with Homecare providers
- Pharmacy procurement experience
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent clinical practice knowledge including a breadth of pharmacy practice and in-depth knowledge and skills in a given clinical speciality
- Have excellent communication skills; non-verbal, verbal and written in order to communicate with a broad spectrum of people (from senior directorate managers to members of the public).
- Ability to communicate empathetically with patients
- Demonstrate excellent leadership skills
- Able to articulate complex information and present clearly to healthcare staff and patients
- Able to evaluate best practice and apply research findings to practice, promoting evidence based practice within the Trust
- Able to use research findings to develop services and patient care, managing therapeutic problems and reducing risks (often in areas where information is limited or conflicting)
- Able to analyse highly complex data/information to solve clinical problems where information is lacking or conflicting
- Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and is able to manage difficult and ambiguous problems eg medication for individual patients
- Able to analyse complex data/information to identify improvements to pharmacy services in the Trust
- Self-motivating to develop services and motivate other members of the team
- Able to supervise and manage the recruitment, ongoing training and performance appraisal of staff
- Experience of busy and stressful working environments.
- Identifies and implements best practice.
- Demonstrates innovation.
- Act as a role model to motivate and inspire others.
- Ability to plan and organise own and others workload to achieve clinical objectives.
- Demonstrated ability to influence practice at a directorate level.
- Good IT skills.
- Ability to identify and prioritise clinical pharmacy services.
- Delegation skills.
- Ability to sustain prolonged concentration.
- Ability to evaluate service quality.
- Demonstrates highly advanced level of reasoning and judgement.
- Manage difficult and ambiguous problems.
Desirable
- Actively seeks out novel opportunities to meet training needs
- Excellent IT skills
- Ability to delegate duties appropriately
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- MPharm
- Higher degree / Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent post graduate diploma in specialist area
Desirable
- Registered Independent prescriber
Experience
Essential
- Extensive clinical experience post qualification in secondary care. Including in depth experience in a clinical specialty and leadership of clinical pharmacy services within that area
- Experience of supervision, mentorship or management of staff. Experience of implementing HR policies
- Experience of leadership, delivery and evaluation of pharmacy projects with multidisciplinary implications
Desirable
- Experience of staff management
- Experience of working with Homecare providers
- Pharmacy procurement experience
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent clinical practice knowledge including a breadth of pharmacy practice and in-depth knowledge and skills in a given clinical speciality
- Have excellent communication skills; non-verbal, verbal and written in order to communicate with a broad spectrum of people (from senior directorate managers to members of the public).
- Ability to communicate empathetically with patients
- Demonstrate excellent leadership skills
- Able to articulate complex information and present clearly to healthcare staff and patients
- Able to evaluate best practice and apply research findings to practice, promoting evidence based practice within the Trust
- Able to use research findings to develop services and patient care, managing therapeutic problems and reducing risks (often in areas where information is limited or conflicting)
- Able to analyse highly complex data/information to solve clinical problems where information is lacking or conflicting
- Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and is able to manage difficult and ambiguous problems eg medication for individual patients
- Able to analyse complex data/information to identify improvements to pharmacy services in the Trust
- Self-motivating to develop services and motivate other members of the team
- Able to supervise and manage the recruitment, ongoing training and performance appraisal of staff
- Experience of busy and stressful working environments.
- Identifies and implements best practice.
- Demonstrates innovation.
- Act as a role model to motivate and inspire others.
- Ability to plan and organise own and others workload to achieve clinical objectives.
- Demonstrated ability to influence practice at a directorate level.
- Good IT skills.
- Ability to identify and prioritise clinical pharmacy services.
- Delegation skills.
- Ability to sustain prolonged concentration.
- Ability to evaluate service quality.
- Demonstrates highly advanced level of reasoning and judgement.
- Manage difficult and ambiguous problems.
Desirable
- Actively seeks out novel opportunities to meet training needs
- Excellent IT skills
- Ability to delegate duties appropriately
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).
