Job summary
Are
you passionate about the care of cancer patients and want to take your skills
to the next level?
Have
you got recent experience in a licensed or unlicensed aseptic unit and knowledge
of aseptic services? Are you committed to
managing the care of cancer patients and would also like the opportunity to
develop your leadership, management and technical expertise?
Due
to promotion of the current post holder, we are looking for an enthusiastic
pharmacist to join our cancer services team in this key leadership
role to work alongside our accountable pharmacist.
You will be accountable for the day to day running of
the aseptic unit, delivering
SACT to onc and haem patients receiving treatment at Worcester with focus on quality management systems and providing a risk
managed effective service to our cancer patients.
Alongside this, you will maintain and develop your clinical skills
for SACT alongside your ward based skills working with our supportive pharmacy, nursing and consultant teams.
You should possess excellent communication skills, show initiative, be forward thinking and be self-motivated.
Both
the Trust and the department embrace innovation and will encourage audit and
service development.
We can offer you a supportive and training-focused
environment that is second to none, within a friendly team.
Please
contact us to discuss. Steph Cook
or Heather Perry on 01905 763333 ext 30236 or email Stephanie.cook5@nhs.net Heather.perry@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
Lead on the day to day
delivery of aseptic services provided to onc and haem patients with focus on quality
management systems and providing a risk managed effective service to our
cancer patients.
Provide senior aseptic
services support to the aseptic unit and SACT reconstitution services, by
providing Quality Assurance support and supervising the day to day
preparation of products and release.
Work in conjunction
with the Accountable pharmacist to improve standards and quality in the
pharmacy aseptic services through a robust quality management system.
Development and reporting
of national and local Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) under the
direction of the Accountable Pharmacist.
Be responsible for providing a specialist pharmacy service to
Haematology and Oncology patients.
Provide a clinical pharmacy service to the Oncology and
Haematology wards.
Driving forward the
development of technician roles within the aseptic unit including pre and
in process checking.
Undertake teaching and supervision of less experienced
staff
Line managing pharmacists as
allocated.
Support the Lead pharmacist in the maintenance and
development of the SACT work sheets and stock maintenance system.
To ensure that all staff
are appropriately trained, ensuring compliance to all legal and best
practice standards and local SOP's.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
- Best services for local people
- Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
- Best use of resources
- Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To
provide senior aseptic services support to the aseptic unit and SACT
reconstitution services, by providing Quality Assurance support and supervising
the day to day preparation of products and release for use in accordance with national
and local standards of Good Manufacturing Practice.
Assess and complete exception and error reports and where
needed CAPA, critically analysing the impact and actions required to maintain a
safe and risk managed service. This will
involve making recommendations and completing action plans for any changes in
service delivery.
Managing the change control process under the oversight of
the Accountable pharmacist. Assessing
the impact of change and creating action plans for implementation of change.
Supporting in the development and delivery of key validation
required for the safe delivery of aseptic services, recommending and
implementing changes as required following analysis of the results.
Develop systems for collection of KPI data and for expanding
the KPI data for reporting to the Pharmacy Governance Committee.
Support the accountable pharmacist in the implementation of
the Aseptic Audit (Farwell) action plan as detailed within the IQAAPS system,
including leading on actions delegated from the Accountable pharmacist.
Develop
and personally deliver training to pharmacists, technicians, pre-registration
pharmacists and students using a variety of methods including class based
sessions, patient centred training, workshops and one to one training and
mentoring.
Assist
and lead in the development of appropriate competency based training packages in
aseptic services and ensure that training is delivered in a timely manner to
pharmacists and pharmacy technicians working in the area of oncology and
chemotherapy to maintain a safe and effective service.
Driving
forward technician development in the area of aseptic services including robust
implementation of pre-process checking by our technician team.
Support
in the development and maintenance of the SACT work sheets and stock management
system.
To
act as a point of contact for the SACT day unit team and others service users,
responding to any complaints regarding service delivery and to actively engage
with the teams to drive forward service developments.
Develop
and maintain standard operating procedures to ensure that these are relevant,
accurate and reflective of current practice.
Undertake
pharmaceutical risk management for the cancer services provided and ensure
medicines legislation is complied with in those areas.
Providing
a specialist chemotherapy and aseptic pharmacy service to Haematology and
Oncology patients and ensuring the chemotherapy regimes prescribed for patients
by haematologists and oncologists at WAH are safe and appropriate for
administration to individual patients given their diagnosis and health status,
are in line with standard protocols or approved clinical trials, and are
prepared accurately and safely in a timely manner.
Ensuring
individual patients entered into clinical trials are treated according to the
trial protocol, that their medicines are prepared as specified in the protocol,
that any randomisation codes are allocate appropriately, and that all records
are maintained correctly and stored suitably.
Substantiating
clinical pharmacy recommendations at the highest level and against challenge
from Consultants, where necessary, and effectively communicate any required
actions to other medical and nursing staff.
Providing
specialist clinical advice to other health care professionals on all
pharmaceutical issues arising within the specialist area of cancer services.
This will include the extrapolation of clinical and complex medicines
information where data may be lacking and analysing, interpreting and comparing
differing opinion or facts to determine the best prescribing strategy for an
individual patient or patient group.
Contributing
towards the pharmacy service development plan for chemotherapy and aseptic
services.
Assisting
with the creation of clinical guidelines relating to all areas of medicines use
within the cancer services.
Assisting
in the delivery of key pharmacy modernisation initiatives within cancer
services and assisting in the assessment of the impact of such service
development initiatives on medical and nursing staff within the post-holders
area and the WAH pharmacy department as a whole.
Provision
of Specialist Clinical Services
Provide a
specialist clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to patients and
undertake pharmaceutical risk management for the haematology/oncology beds.
Ensure compliance
with medicines legislation, the Trust Medicines Policy, and medicines related
national and local guidelines within haematology/oncology beds at WRH.
Contribute
to the development and implementation of appropriate technical and professional
SOPs and associated policies to ensure that the haematology/oncology medicines
management systems are safe, robust, guided by national directives, standards,
guidelines, and the post-holders own specialist knowledge, and are quality
assured.
Evaluate
prescribing practices and amend according to evidence-based practice,
national/regional directives and clinical governance targets on a daily basis,
during consultant ward-rounds, and at multidisciplinary team meetings
Substantiate
pharmaceutical recommendations and advice to medical and nursing staff and
communicate effectively any necessary actions to medical and nursing staff.
Construct
pharmaceutical care plans for patients, assess and monitor clinical progress
and outcome with regard to their medication and actively intervene to ensure
that patients receive optimal care with minimal side effects.
Provide
specialist advice to healthcare professionals on all pharmaceutical issues
arising within the post holders specialist clinical area.
Be
responsible for the therapeutic blood monitoring of identified drugs within the
post-holders clinical area including
Managerial responsibilities
Manage pharmacists as allocated
including delivery of PDR and management of sickness based around trust
policies.
Undertake the day to day supervision of
pharmacists, technicians, assistants and students
Ensure that staffing
is managed within approved funded establishment
Develop and maintain
good internal communications within the department.
Ensure that the
capability, conduct and performance of every member of staff within their
responsibility are continually assessed and appropriate action is taken to
address shortfalls and resolve issues
Provision of Professional Dispensary Services:
Providing the clinical pharmacist check on all
prescriptions dispensed by the Hospital Dispensary acting as the sole
pharmacist providing this check on a rota with other pharmacists. This will
require the scrutiny of prescriptions from medical and other practitioners.
Questioning and challenging the prescriptions of
all prescribers including Consultants whenever the post holder perceives it to
be professionally appropriate and in the best interests of the patient.
Use the Electronic Discharge System for
processing discharge prescriptions.
Participate in the Dispensary Saturday and Bank
Holiday rotas and the departmental on-call rota.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To
provide senior aseptic services support to the aseptic unit and SACT
reconstitution services, by providing Quality Assurance support and supervising
the day to day preparation of products and release for use in accordance with national
and local standards of Good Manufacturing Practice.
Assess and complete exception and error reports and where
needed CAPA, critically analysing the impact and actions required to maintain a
safe and risk managed service. This will
involve making recommendations and completing action plans for any changes in
service delivery.
Managing the change control process under the oversight of
the Accountable pharmacist. Assessing
the impact of change and creating action plans for implementation of change.
Supporting in the development and delivery of key validation
required for the safe delivery of aseptic services, recommending and
implementing changes as required following analysis of the results.
Develop systems for collection of KPI data and for expanding
the KPI data for reporting to the Pharmacy Governance Committee.
Support the accountable pharmacist in the implementation of
the Aseptic Audit (Farwell) action plan as detailed within the IQAAPS system,
including leading on actions delegated from the Accountable pharmacist.
Develop
and personally deliver training to pharmacists, technicians, pre-registration
pharmacists and students using a variety of methods including class based
sessions, patient centred training, workshops and one to one training and
mentoring.
Assist
and lead in the development of appropriate competency based training packages in
aseptic services and ensure that training is delivered in a timely manner to
pharmacists and pharmacy technicians working in the area of oncology and
chemotherapy to maintain a safe and effective service.
Driving
forward technician development in the area of aseptic services including robust
implementation of pre-process checking by our technician team.
Support
in the development and maintenance of the SACT work sheets and stock management
system.
To
act as a point of contact for the SACT day unit team and others service users,
responding to any complaints regarding service delivery and to actively engage
with the teams to drive forward service developments.
Develop
and maintain standard operating procedures to ensure that these are relevant,
accurate and reflective of current practice.
Undertake
pharmaceutical risk management for the cancer services provided and ensure
medicines legislation is complied with in those areas.
Providing
a specialist chemotherapy and aseptic pharmacy service to Haematology and
Oncology patients and ensuring the chemotherapy regimes prescribed for patients
by haematologists and oncologists at WAH are safe and appropriate for
administration to individual patients given their diagnosis and health status,
are in line with standard protocols or approved clinical trials, and are
prepared accurately and safely in a timely manner.
Ensuring
individual patients entered into clinical trials are treated according to the
trial protocol, that their medicines are prepared as specified in the protocol,
that any randomisation codes are allocate appropriately, and that all records
are maintained correctly and stored suitably.
Substantiating
clinical pharmacy recommendations at the highest level and against challenge
from Consultants, where necessary, and effectively communicate any required
actions to other medical and nursing staff.
Providing
specialist clinical advice to other health care professionals on all
pharmaceutical issues arising within the specialist area of cancer services.
This will include the extrapolation of clinical and complex medicines
information where data may be lacking and analysing, interpreting and comparing
differing opinion or facts to determine the best prescribing strategy for an
individual patient or patient group.
Contributing
towards the pharmacy service development plan for chemotherapy and aseptic
services.
Assisting
with the creation of clinical guidelines relating to all areas of medicines use
within the cancer services.
Assisting
in the delivery of key pharmacy modernisation initiatives within cancer
services and assisting in the assessment of the impact of such service
development initiatives on medical and nursing staff within the post-holders
area and the WAH pharmacy department as a whole.
Provision
of Specialist Clinical Services
Provide a
specialist clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to patients and
undertake pharmaceutical risk management for the haematology/oncology beds.
Ensure compliance
with medicines legislation, the Trust Medicines Policy, and medicines related
national and local guidelines within haematology/oncology beds at WRH.
Contribute
to the development and implementation of appropriate technical and professional
SOPs and associated policies to ensure that the haematology/oncology medicines
management systems are safe, robust, guided by national directives, standards,
guidelines, and the post-holders own specialist knowledge, and are quality
assured.
Evaluate
prescribing practices and amend according to evidence-based practice,
national/regional directives and clinical governance targets on a daily basis,
during consultant ward-rounds, and at multidisciplinary team meetings
Substantiate
pharmaceutical recommendations and advice to medical and nursing staff and
communicate effectively any necessary actions to medical and nursing staff.
Construct
pharmaceutical care plans for patients, assess and monitor clinical progress
and outcome with regard to their medication and actively intervene to ensure
that patients receive optimal care with minimal side effects.
Provide
specialist advice to healthcare professionals on all pharmaceutical issues
arising within the post holders specialist clinical area.
Be
responsible for the therapeutic blood monitoring of identified drugs within the
post-holders clinical area including
Managerial responsibilities
Manage pharmacists as allocated
including delivery of PDR and management of sickness based around trust
policies.
Undertake the day to day supervision of
pharmacists, technicians, assistants and students
Ensure that staffing
is managed within approved funded establishment
Develop and maintain
good internal communications within the department.
Ensure that the
capability, conduct and performance of every member of staff within their
responsibility are continually assessed and appropriate action is taken to
address shortfalls and resolve issues
Provision of Professional Dispensary Services:
Providing the clinical pharmacist check on all
prescriptions dispensed by the Hospital Dispensary acting as the sole
pharmacist providing this check on a rota with other pharmacists. This will
require the scrutiny of prescriptions from medical and other practitioners.
Questioning and challenging the prescriptions of
all prescribers including Consultants whenever the post holder perceives it to
be professionally appropriate and in the best interests of the patient.
Use the Electronic Discharge System for
processing discharge prescriptions.
Participate in the Dispensary Saturday and Bank
Holiday rotas and the departmental on-call rota.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through a vocational degree in pharmacy
- Currently Registered as a pharmacist in UK: Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Currently meeting the GPhC standard for continuing professional development.
- Postgraduate clinical specialist knowledge acquired through diploma level training e.g. Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a licensed or un-licensed aseptic unit
- Experience of delivering SACT services to cancer patients in an acute trust setting.
- Experience of working with quality management systems in aseptic services.
- Recent hospital experience of successfully delivering pharmacy services as a registered pharmacist to a range of general areas under the direction of lead specialist pharmacists.
- Experience of teaching and mentoring other staff
- Experience in delivering a clinical pharmacy service to a ward or clinical area.
- Experience in influencing and persuading senior secondary care clinicians in relation to optimal medicine treatment for patients
- Experience of working with complex IT systems.
Desirable
- Experience of working with an electronic prescribing system
- Experience of line managing staff
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skilled at working within a licensed or un-licensed aseptic unit to prepare patient specific SACT.
- Skilled at understanding technical data from the aseptic unit such as microbiological reports.
- Skilled at critical appraisal using reference sources, journals, the internet and on-line information sources to prepare evaluated technical information in relation to the aseptic unit.
- Able to interpret national guidelines within specialist area(s), and Trust policies, procedures and guidelines related to specialist area(s) including clinical governance and risk management.
- Skills for teaching and supervising pharmacists and technical staff
- Able to supervise a team of pharmacist and technical staff
- Up to date knowledge of the required quality management systems required within aseptic services.
- Up to date knowledge of the technical requirements in order to safely and effectively managing an aseptic unit preparation service.
- Knowledge about chemotherapy drugs and regimens in current use.
- Up to date knowledge and understanding of Safe Systems of Working in hospital pharmacy services.
- Able to set priorities, meet deadlines and manage time effectively.
- Able to work well both under own initiative and effectively within a team.
Desirable
- Skilled at working with an electronic chemotherapy prescribing system.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through a vocational degree in pharmacy
- Currently Registered as a pharmacist in UK: Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Currently meeting the GPhC standard for continuing professional development.
- Postgraduate clinical specialist knowledge acquired through diploma level training e.g. Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a licensed or un-licensed aseptic unit
- Experience of delivering SACT services to cancer patients in an acute trust setting.
- Experience of working with quality management systems in aseptic services.
- Recent hospital experience of successfully delivering pharmacy services as a registered pharmacist to a range of general areas under the direction of lead specialist pharmacists.
- Experience of teaching and mentoring other staff
- Experience in delivering a clinical pharmacy service to a ward or clinical area.
- Experience in influencing and persuading senior secondary care clinicians in relation to optimal medicine treatment for patients
- Experience of working with complex IT systems.
Desirable
- Experience of working with an electronic prescribing system
- Experience of line managing staff
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skilled at working within a licensed or un-licensed aseptic unit to prepare patient specific SACT.
- Skilled at understanding technical data from the aseptic unit such as microbiological reports.
- Skilled at critical appraisal using reference sources, journals, the internet and on-line information sources to prepare evaluated technical information in relation to the aseptic unit.
- Able to interpret national guidelines within specialist area(s), and Trust policies, procedures and guidelines related to specialist area(s) including clinical governance and risk management.
- Skills for teaching and supervising pharmacists and technical staff
- Able to supervise a team of pharmacist and technical staff
- Up to date knowledge of the required quality management systems required within aseptic services.
- Up to date knowledge of the technical requirements in order to safely and effectively managing an aseptic unit preparation service.
- Knowledge about chemotherapy drugs and regimens in current use.
- Up to date knowledge and understanding of Safe Systems of Working in hospital pharmacy services.
- Able to set priorities, meet deadlines and manage time effectively.
- Able to work well both under own initiative and effectively within a team.
Desirable
- Skilled at working with an electronic chemotherapy prescribing system.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
