Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-RDPH-08
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Charing Cross Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £51,488 - £57,802 Inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Cancer & Aseptic Services Pharmacist
Band 7
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Our Pharmacy team are looking for a patient focused pharmacist to join our Aseptic Services Team.
As a Cancer & Aseptic Services Pharmacist, you will be involved in a wide variety of duties from assisting with the day-to-day running of the aseptic unit to liaising with our Doctors, nurses, and clinical research teams.
You will play a pivotal role, working within the aseptic unit within Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust at the Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospital sites, delivering a wealth of expertise to the oncology, haematology, research and nutrition teams.
Our two aseptic units are staffed by enthusiastic and committed teams delivering a high number of doses daily across both sites to various specialities, including our rapidly expanding BMT unit, and one of only three gestational trophoblastic disease centres nationwide.
Our Pharmacy team are a large department of over 300 staff working across St Mary’s, Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals. We are a leading Trust in research and clinical trials, enabling you to experience diverse and exciting opportunities.
You will not only have the opportunity to explore and enhance your clinical expertise, but you will also be developing your management, training and leadership skills all whilst being supported by our incredible team. We understand just how important it is to invest in you, so offer a range of training and support programmes to develop your skills to progress to a higher banding.
Main duties of the job
- To support the Aseptic Units in maintaining an excellent patient-centred service, compliant with Good Manufacturing Practice.
- To provide a clinical screening service for SACT, clinical trials and parenteral nutrition, liaising with prescribers, nurses and clinical research teams.
- To provide clinical pharmacy services, department and ward-based, in line with Trust procedures and national legislation.
- To assist the clinical trials team in the running of trials being conducted through the Aseptic Units.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities. We encourage staff to have the Covid vaccination to protect themselves, patients, other colleagues as well as the wider community. Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within the Trust such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.
As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy or Equivalent
- Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- Post Graduate Certificate in General Pharmacy Practice or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Post Graduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice or equivalent experience
- GCP and GMP training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post-registration training and experience in hospital pharmacy including aseptic services. In addition this must include a solid grounding in all other aspects of hospital pharmacy practice (medicines information, ward services and dispensing)
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options for patients
- Demonstrable use of audit to improve practice
Desirable criteria
- Post-registration experience in screening and verification of SACT prescriptions
- Clinical Trials experience
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Good ability to organise and prioritise work
- Good clinical practical knowledge
- Ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management
- Excellent communication skills
- Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the Clinical Governance agenda
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Antoinette Adu
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacist Aseptic Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
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