Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (The successful applicant will be required to work Monday, Wednesday and Friday)
- Job ref
- 361-7195247
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre
- Town
- Northwood
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 Per annum pro rata + 15% High Cost Area Supplement
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Oncology Pharmacist – Electronic Prescribing
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for an Advanced Oncology Pharmacist - Electronic Prescribing who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
As the Advanced Pharmacist - Electronic Prescribing you will lead, manage and develop the operational pharmacy services to ensure that patients receive safe, high quality and clinical effective pharmaceutical care.
You will be supported to develop their leadership and management skills. Candidates who do not meet all the essential and desirable criteria are welcome to apply for this role and a Band 7 to Band 8A developmental role will be offered.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The role involves leading and managing the strategy, design, and development of the Electronic Prescribing (EP) system for Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT).
It includes maintaining the EP system, electronic referrals, and electronic Patient Reported Outcome Measures for SACT. The postholder provides support and leadership for all aspects of SACT EP. Additionally, they are responsible for facilitating the delivery of the oncology pharmacy service at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, with a particular focus on electronic prescribing.
A key aspect of the role also includes the development of policies and procedures to ensure safe medication practices in relation to electronic prescribing.
Apply specialist knowledge to a designated patient group to develop pharmacist prescribing role, undertaking the clinical management and drug treatment of patients under an agreed clinical management plan following diagnosis by a medical practitioner.
You will promote the safe, clinically effective and cost-effective use of medicines by providing expert advice on oncology pharmacy issues including clinical, funding, and prescribing issues
As a member of pharmacy management team to help deliver a strategic vision for the pharmacy department and business plan in line with cancer centre and trust strategies.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Clinical Oncology Knowledge
- Writing and maintaining SOPS, reports and performing audits
- Well-developed therapeutic and clinical pharmacy knowledge
- Up to date knowledge of national pharmacy issues
- Ability to use Crystal Report or equivalent to extract information from data tables
- Knowledge of building and validating SACT protocols on electronic prescribing systems
- Knowledge of post graduate education for pharmacists
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working in Oncology pharmacy
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Proven line management experience
- Experience of SACT Electronic Prescribing systems
Desirable criteria
- Formal management and leadership training or equivalent experience
- Experience in implementing change and project management
- Experience of working with Chemocare
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Masters Degree MPharm or Equivalent
- Competency assessed and examined professional registration, GPhC
- Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
- Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent (completed both year 1 and year 2)
- Pharmacist Independent Non-medical prescriber (or willing to work towards completion)
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality, values diversity, and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities. Understands the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
- Role model our Trust values every day
- Some flexibility in working hours
Skills
Essential criteria
- Can show appropriate applications of clinical knowledge and effective pharmaceutical care skills
- Critical appraisal skills
- Proven presentation skills
- Supervisory skills
- Good team player – able to work alone and supervise others when necessary
- Able to use initiative
- Able to manage services
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Ability to prioritise workload
- Good organisation skills
- Able to work under pressure
- Ability to work independently
- Accurate and precise attention to detail
- Effective computer and IT knowledge and skills
- Demonstrates good use of initiative and self-motivation
- Adaptable to change
- Audit/research and development
- Previous use of chemotherapy electronic prescribing system
- Previous use of blueteq
- Good understanding of cancer drug fund, NICE & ICDFR
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
- Wendy Ng
- Job title
- Deputy Head of Pharmacy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02038262499
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