Band 8b Advanced Pharmacist - Clinical Oncology

Job summary

The Cancer Services Division at UHB delivers world class cancer care to patients from across the country, with a range of specialised services in Oncology & Haematology, delivered by a multidisciplinary team.

We are pleased to offer an experienced individual the opportunity to be the Advanced Pharmacist for Haematology/Oncology Services at the Trust.

You will be a highly motivated individual and a team player with exceptional communication skills and a strong desire to use your knowledge, skills and experience to improve patient care and influence healthcare professionals in the best use of medicines.

You will deliver a high-quality specialist clinical pharmacy service and will be able to demonstrate effective leadership and management of staff and allocated services.

With the support of the senior team within Cancer Services, you will lead on core directorate activities such as reporting and analysis of medicines expenditure, clinical governance and risk management activities, as well as advancing your knowledge and skills within a specific clinical area.

Opportunities to gain further skills to enhance your career will be available.

If you have a passion to provide an excellent, patient focused pharmacy service within a large and friendly team we encourage you to apply. Interviews will take place on 16th October.

For more information please contact: Nicola Turner, Associate Chief Pharmacist -- Technical & Clinical Oncology Services: Mob: 07909997303, nicola.turner@uhb.nhs.uk

Main duties, tasks & skills required

*The Advanced Pharmacist for Clinical Oncology has management responsibility for the ongoing development and sustainability of a high quality, innovative clinical service to oncology/haematology patients across Queen Elizabeth, Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull sites of the Trust.

*The post holder will manage the clinical service delivery of pharmacists working within oncology/haematology and provide advice on pharmaceutical matters.

*The post holder will manage, lead, develop and participate in practice research, risk management, clinical intervention monitoring and clinical audit, including interface issues. They will represent the Trust in relevant clinical networks and in joint work with locality ICS, and relevant Regional and National bodies.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description* 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

*BSc, BPharm, MPharm or equivalent in pharmacy

*Postgraduate Masters in clinical oncology or equivalent specialist experience

*Postgraduate Diploma in management or equivalent experience

*Member of The General Pharmaceutical Council

Desirable

*Non-medical prescribing qualification

Experience

Essential

*Substantial experience as a clinical oncology pharmacy practitioner

*Ability to effectively influence other NHS professionals at both senior management/clinical level.

*Substantial experience in project management, developing services and policy at a strategic level

*Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team

*Substantial experience of managing staff

*Ability to manage budgets and deliver on cost improvement programmes

*Previous experienc