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Specialist Pharmacist
Tunbridge Wells Hospital | Pharmacy | Permanent | Full Time
Up to £52,500.00 per annum depending on skills and experience
37.5 hours per week
Our Pharmacy team at Nuffield Health Hospital Tunbridge Wells currently have an exciting opportunity for a pharmacist with a specialist interest in oncology and the peri-operative management of elective surgical patients.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced, and self-motivated pharmacist to integrate with the Pharmacy team and oncology / surgical multi-disciplinary teams to deliver an outstanding level of service to our oncology, haemato-oncology and elective surgical patients. As a key member of the wider multi-disciplinary team at Nuffield Health, you will feel the benefit from processes that fully integrate medicines into the personalised pathway of care for our patients.
The ideal candidate will work flexibly to meet the demands of the service:
Approx. 0.8WTE of the role will be dedicated to the oncology pharmacy service, with patients currently being treated across 4 days per week. There is some flexibility in how the hours are worked on each day, and blended working arrangements would be considered for the right candidate. Our ambition is for the successful candidate to additionally support their Pharmacy colleagues through in-situ training and competency assessment to create a multi-skilled Pharmacy workforce within the oncology service offering.
Approx. 0.2WTE of the role will be spent providing ward-based clinical pharmacy services to our elective surgical patients, and assisting our pharmacy dispensary colleagues with the dispensing and checking of discharge and outpatient prescriptions.
This is an ideal role for a Band 7 (equivalent) pharmacist with oncology / haemato-oncology experience who is ready for the next step in their career, but wishes to maintain input into another clinical speciality for variety within their role. If you aspire to provide an excellent level of clinical care, and consider time spent face-to-face with your patients a key component of that, then please get in touch with the team that provides that time and encourages and promotes that approach.
As a Specialist Pharmacist, you will:
To deliver a high-quality clinical pharmacy service within Nuffield Health Hospital Tunbridge Wells to oncology, haemato-oncology and elective surgical patients, in line with current government, NICE and BOPA guidelines.
Undertaking medicines reconciliation, organising discharge medications, provision of drug information and clinical counselling of patients.
Maintaining pharmaceutical care plans for all oncology and haemato-oncology patients.
Verification and screening of SACT treatment prescriptions, inpatient prescription charts, discharge and outpatient prescriptions.
Supporting and advising our clinicians on safe prescribing within oncology, haemato-oncology and peri-operative medicine.
Daily coordination of the administration and delivery of SACT treatments to patients, maintaining effective communication with (and support to) the Pharmacy dispensary.
Development of protocols and guidelines for SACT treatment.
Ordering of SACT in readiness for patient treatment.
Education and training of colleagues in support of their development with oncology competencies.
Liaison with other Nuffield Hospital oncology sites to share knowledge and expertise.
Attending meetings with pharmacy and other oncology leads within the Nuffield Health group on a regular basis, implementing changes to policy and procedure locally.
Skills & Experience:
UK Registered Pharmacist with General Pharmaceutical Council (Essential).
At least 4-5 years of post-qualification experience.
Experience of supervising and training other staff.
Post-qualification experience within oncology and haemato-oncology and the ability to screen and verify oncology and haemato-oncology regimes and prescriptions (Essential).
Post-qualification experience in the provision of a ward-based clinical pharmacy service is desirable but not essential, as full training will be provided.
Knowledge of relevant hospital policies and procedures.
Excellent communication and people skills. This is essential as you will be working closely with patients as well as a variety of clinical staff.
Oncology experience is essential for this role, and further training within this clinical speciality will be encouraged and supported.
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Nuffield Health Tunbridge Wells Hospital.
The Nuffield Health Tunbridge Wells Hospital are recognised for their friendly atmosphere, clinical expertise, and high standards of care. Our purpose-built hospital has been established since 1968. With 40 en-suite bedrooms, a busy outpatients and pre-assessment departments. We also provide a diagnostic imaging service (MRI, CT, Ultrasound, Mammography and X-ray), pathology, paediatric unit, surgical recovery ward, cancer care unit, 3 state of the art operating theatres and physiotherapy services.
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