An exciting opportunity has presented itself for a pharmacist with both clinical cancer experience and a strong interest in clinical trials to join our senior cancer pharmacy team. This post is a permanent position working within the Clinical Research Facility (CRF) and the Cancer Clinical Trials Unit (CCTU) at UCLH. You will work closely with the Lead Clinical Pharmacist to manage a fast paced, growing service.
As a world-leading research facility, you will collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver clinical trials, including early phase, and streamline the service.
As a registered pharmacist, you will provide a person-centred approach to care and manage specialist pharmacy services to patients within the CRF & CCTU. You will collaborate with the Lead Clinical Pharmacist to improve the pharmacy service for these patients and educate pharmacy and multidisciplinary staff on these innovative treatments.
The post holder will lead, develop and undertake clinical and operational audit and research in the CRF & CCTU.
The UCLH Cancer Pharmacy Team is a large team across oncology, haematology and transplantation and works well together. Our ideal candidate will:
- help us develop and deliver our vision for a person-centred clinical pharmacy service
- drive directorate and departmental clinical governance issues, clinical audit, practice research, service improvement projects and more
- be keen to further their career within cancer services.
The main day to day responsibilities would include:
- To manage the day-to-day delivery of clinical pharmacy services to the CRF & for CCTU trials and streamline the clinical pharmacy pathway
- To lead and support the opening and management of cancer clinical trials
- To lead and manage amendments for cancer clinical trials
- To provide highly specialised and complex evidence-based clinical advice and information to the multidisciplinary team on the care and treatment of cancer clinical patients
- To deliver and promote high quality, cost effective, patient focused pharmaceutical care
- To manage cancer pharmacists delivering clinical pharmacy services to the CRF
- To support the training and development of cancer pharmacists in the field of cancer trials
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
- University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
- University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
- Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
- University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
- The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
- University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
The cancer pharmacy team consists of specialist cancer pharmacists and technicians that work for the Cancer Division and is fully integrated within the Division to provide clinical pharmacy services to patients. The team also collaborates closely with the UCLH Pharmacy Department to ensure pharmacy standards are maintained.
At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.
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- UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.
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