Job overview

This exciting new role has been created to support the introduction of pharmacist-led clinics for haemato-oncology patients across Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. You will be joining a respected team of pharmacists and technicians delivering services to our patients at Frimley Park and Wexham Park Hospitals.  

You will be establishing clinics for SACT prescribing, confirming treatments, managing side effects and counselling patients to transform our service to haematology patients. This will include writing the defined outpatient clinic protocols for NMP’s to support activity within the tumour group.

You will also spend time training your colleagues to ensure there is shared learning, screening SACT prescriptions and providing directorate support. You will work closely with the team of haematologists and clinical nurse specialists on each site.

The post holder should have completed the clinical diploma or equivalent, and preferably Independent Prescribing.

For more information please contact the current post holder Kamal Patel (Frimley Park Hospital)  on [email protected] or 0300 613 3655 or Nicola Hughes on [email protected] or 07768 553747 to arrange an informal visit.

Surrey and Sussex Cancer Alliance have funded this service development for 2 years to establish the clinics and improve our patients' experience of SACT.

Main duties of the job

General:

• To work with other senior pharmacists to develop the clinical pharmacy service to patients within the specialist areas being covered.
• The provision of a clinical pharmacy service to patients within the specialist areas.
• To support the training and development of pharmacist independent prescribers.
• To act as a role model in the field of clinical pharmacy practice and provide a consistently high standard of clinical service in line with the pharmacy objectives.
• The recruitment, management, and development of staff under the postholder.

Haematology roles:

• To partake in Haemato-oncology clinical pharmacy duties ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken.
• To manage a caseload of patients as part of the Haemato-oncology Clinical Team within a defined specialist area.
• To develop the provision of Haemato-oncology advanced clinical practice – promoting safe and evidenced-based practice and contributing to improved clinical outcomes and services to patients.
• To provide leadership, management and directorate/service support roles to Haematology.

Please read the Lead Speciality Pharmacist job description for further details, along with the Addendum which provides additional information about the Haematology/Oncology roles.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. 

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo