Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Expert clinical practice

• To act as Head of Service for Chemotherapy within ANHSFT – ensuring national standards for Peer Review are met and maintained. Interpreting national guidance and local agenda
• To work within the local integrated care system to provide expert advice and support to GPs, ICB and practice pharmacists and community pharmacists in relation to cancer medicines and local and national guidelines in order to achieve the optimum use of these medicines..
• To participate in collaborative work with Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust and wider West Yorkshire partners, in running patient chemotherapy review clinics, protocol management, guideline preparation, providing advice on the management of oncology conditions, education & training, as well as collaborative research.

·         To promote the safe use of medicines in oncology across the Trust, and act as an expert resource across the Trust, the region and nationally through membership of BOPA and representing the Trust at regional and national meetings

• To provide a clinical pharmacy service to Medical Oncology within ANHSFT, optimising patient outcomes and improving patient experience, working within patient care pathways across sectors and healthcare boundaries.
• To undertake patient reviews in outpatient clinics, improving health outcomes for patients using a holistic approach to care. This will include assessment of chemotherapy toxicities, prescribing chemotherapy, ordering CT and MRI scans where appropriate (working within local non-medical referral guidelines and national regulations such as IRMER). To provide clinical information to patients, including where there is uncertainty, in accessible and considered ways.
• To use innovation to support effective patient outcomes, safety and experience aligned with relevant national agenda.
• To perform clinical screening of SACT prescriptions, making appropriate interventions to ensure treatments are safe and according to protocol.

Leadership and Management

·         To act as a mentor and role model as an expert clinical pharmacist; manager and leader and demonstrate this locally, regionally and nationally.

• To lead and provide line management for the pharmacy team in the provision of a safe, effective and efficient clinical pharmacy service to cancer patients, in accordance with local and national standards and strategy. This includes ensuring the cancer services team are trained and competent for their role through training and appraisal, through use of the BOPA SACT Passport.
• To provide clinical leadership on future developments towards collaborative working for the Chemocare prescribing system, the introduction of new protocols, clinical leadership for upgrades and to ensure all staff are trained in the use of the system

Education and Research

• To undertake clinical and pharmacy practice research and to develop a workforce that is research aware as well as contributing to audit and service evaluation.

• To lead and deliver education and training in oncology for pharmacy, other healthcare professionals and patients across the health economy.

·         To further develop formal links with the University of Bradford and other Higher Education Institutions to undertake collaborative research and undergraduate / postgraduate teaching

• Lead, plan, undertake and publish clinical audit and research in relation to innovations and improvements in SACT prescribing and use.

Professional

• Practice within the boundaries described within the latest version of the Medicines, Ethics and Practice issued by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society setting and demonstrating high professional standards in all aspects of work both clinical and managerial Undertake and record a continuing professional development annually as required by professional bodies.
• To ensure Cancer Drug Fund innovations and NICE chemotherapy appraisals are appropriately implemented. To provide expert advice at highly specialist level on pharmaceutical matters relating to SACT and support the development of guidelines in the use of SACT in conjunction with the Drug and Therapeutics Committee (DTC). To work with commissioners in relation to reporting, data quality and commissioning decisions and challenges as appropriate.
• To be responsible for ensuring that the monthly invoice to the Cancer Drugs Fund, to ensure correct payment of invoices for pass through drug costs, is completed in a timely and accurate manner. To support and inform the forecast for the budgetary impacts of new cancer treatments, or those with changes in usage.

• To support and lead appropriate waste reduction schemes in relation to cancer medicines.

• To Chair meetings of the ANHSFT Clinical Chemotherapy Operational Group

• To maintain a high standard of work at all times and to undertake such other duties as may from time to time be decreed necessary by the Chief Pharmacist

• Participate in the pharmacist clinical rota, operational pharmacy service rota, the pharmacy weekend, bank holiday and out-of-hours on-call service on a rota basis.

In pursuing these duties the post holder will ensure compliance with the NHS Constitution and be familiar with the NHS England Guidance ‘Understanding the new NHS’.