We have an exciting opportunity for a band 7 pharmacist to join our cancer services team.
We provide chemotherapy delivery services to patients at 5 day units namely: North Tyneside, Wansbeck, Hexham, Alnwick and Berwick, all with dedicated nursing teams. Haematology services are provided by Northumbria with visiting oncologists from the Newcastle Cancer Centre.
Successful candidates will be part of our clinical teams; using your skills for patients and service users within our cancer services and clinical pharmacy teams. Exact job plans will be discussed at interview.
Within our cancer services team you will work within the multi-disciplinary team ensuring the safe clinical screening of chemotherapy and immunotherapy. There will be an expectation of role development into specialist clinics to support our patients and existing teams.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Provide highly specialised clinical services and provide highly specialised advice concerning care within cancer services.
- To provide a personal clinical and professional contribution to the clinical pharmacy service e.g. by participating on medical and other ward rounds, in clinics, counselling patients, prescribing. Clinical pharmacy describes how pharmacists use their expertise and experience to make sure that patients get the best out of their medicines. It involves proactive and direct patient care which reduces clinical and financial risk i.e. maximising clinical outcomes, minimising patient morbidity and risk of error and maximising cost effectiveness.
- To review patients’ notes and prescriptions and to provide specialised advice to patients (& carers), medical staff and other healthcare professionals, in order to ensure safe and effective medicines management and the best patient care.
- To consider clarity and risk associated with prescribed medicines and prescriptions and make appropriate interventions to ensure safety and optimisation of patient therapy within assigned clinical area of responsibility.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
To provide specialist clinical pharmacy services within cancer services. To lead on matters pertaining to medicines management, to advise on medicines use (risk management, clinical governance, research and development, formulary, expenditure) and to develop/audit relevant protocols and guidelines. To ensure that there is compliance with medicines legislation.
To assist in the provision of advice on pharmaceutical matters and that pertaining to medicines management (particularly within own area of responsibility). Medicines management encompasses the selection, purchasing, delivery, prescribing, administration and review of medicine to optimise the contribution they make to produce informed and desired outcomes of patient care.
To provide excellent patient care, in primary and acute care settings, through direct patient facing activities. Primary care encompasses general medical practice, as well as people requiring care in their own homes or in residential care homes.
To undertake teaching and to supervise less experienced Pharmacists, technical staff, students etc.
Day to day management of trainee pharmacists and band 6 foundation pharmacists
To contribute to the day to day operational running of the pharmacy department e.g. by assuming statutory professional responsibility whilst working in the dispensary.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
