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DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• To provide specialist clinical pharmacy services to the designated cancer disease group in accordance with all departmental, Trust and national standards, procedures and policies. To be responsible for the direct delivery and development of an out-patient clinical practice, or within the day case setting within the Trust or at Trust peripheral locations. To work closely with and provide pharmaceutical advice to medical staff, other members of the multi-disciplinary team and patients.
• To work as an independent prescriber within the designated disease group working alongside the relevant consultants.
• To develop contributions to pharmacist led clinic streams e.g oral SACT delivery models, if appropriate to the designated disease group in line with service improvements.
• To audit and evaluate pharmacist led clinic streams / pharmacist prescribing within the designated disease group as appropriate for service evaluation and improvement.  

• To develop and maintain drug protocols and treatment guidelines both within the clinical pharmacy service and the designated cancer disease group. Reviewing evidence-based guidelines and protocols in conjunction with fellow healthcare professionals, in order to advance the safe, clinical effective and cost efficient use of medicines for patients.
• To produce shared care protocols where appropriate and to attend at meetings with primary care representatives, where relevant
• To attend and contribute to meetings relevant to the designated disease group as appropriate.

• To liaise with the Director of Pharmacy, and the lead designated cancer disease group consultants, to forecast drug expenditure and to identify or any changes in prescribing practices that may potentially impact on the drugs budget (drug forecasting)
• Gain an understanding of the principle and practice of the Trust's budgeting system and support the management of drug expenditure by clinicians and senior managers
• Represent the pharmacy service at appropriate clinical unit and divisional meetings on request
• To monitor and interpret published evidence and computer reports of drug usage, to use this data to report to the lead clinicians and Director of Pharmacy, implementing agreed policies aimed at improving patient outcomes and containing drug expenditure
• To provide evaluated pharmaceutical information to the Drugs and Therapeutic Committee as requested
• To support the development of the Electronic Prescribing process across the Trust.

• To support the designated cancer disease group through the development and implementation of electronic prescribing for out patients and in patients.
• To support prescribing at the individual patient level, contributing to the optimisation of patients’ drug therapy with due consideration to risk/benefit issues.
• To provide pharmaceutical care, contributing to the multi-professional team through ward pharmacy services and attendance on appropriate clinician’s ward rounds and meetings.
• Facilitate effective communication about relevant pharmacy issues to clinicians and senior managers and the identification of opportunities for development of pharmacy services to match identified services and care needs.
• To demonstrate awareness and commitment to the Trust’s Clinical Governance Plan
• In conjunction with the Principal Pharmacist in Clinical Services, to establish processes for the setting of standards of care, identifying the risks involved and implement changes that need to occur to achieve these.
• To undertake clinical audit and practice research as part of the multi-disciplinary audit process within the designated disease group and clinical pharmacy service.
• To participate in research opportunities internal or external to the Trust in collaboration with disease group or university faculties.
• To identify and report any systemic or preventable errors associated with medicines within the Network Services division and facilitate learning.

General Duties

• To assist and participate in the development, implementation and management of training initiatives and competency frameworks within the clinical pharmacy service.

• Together with colleagues to be involved in the maintenance of cost-effective and efficient pharmacy services and to participate in their regular review and development.

• To participate in clinical audit or practice research as required.
• To represent pharmacy and act as a link person at relevant meetings and conferences
• To provide education and training to pharmacy, medical and nursing staff.

• To act as a mentor / role model to junior pharmacists and undertake regular appraisals.
• To participate in the clinical training of pharmacists, pre-registration pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

• To actively participate in the clinical pharmacy ward service rota to all patients within the Trust as required
• To be responsible for the clinical screening/review of chemotherapy prescriptions for designated patient groups, including clinical trial prescriptions and to clinically screen/ review in-patient and outpatient prescriptions.

• To check and supply medication to and for patients, including clinical trials and to counsel patients or medical or nursing staff on their correct use.
• To participate in prescription clinical screening and final product checking rotas.

• To give advice on the storage, administration and therapeutic use of drugs to patients, medical / nursing staff and other colleagues. To provide written information as necessary.

• To follow local, Trust and National guidelines for safe medicines practice.

• To contribute to the revision of the Trust’s drug formulary.

• To identify own training needs.
• Maintain a CPD portfolio.

• To participate in weekend and Bank Holiday rotas and additional out of hours duties as required to meet the needs of the service.

• To undertake any other duties consistent with the nature of the post as requested by the Pharmacy Managers and the Trust.