Job Details
Banding: Band 7
Hourly rate: £33 - £36 per hour
Working hours: Full-time working hours
Payment Method: Direct Engagement
Contract Type: Locum
Contract Length: 3-month minimum with a scope for extension
Job Summary
- The pharmacist will be involved in: -screening Oncology and Haematology prescriptions for the Chemotherapy day unit and Haematology day unit.
- Assist in providing a ward-based and daycare specialist pharmacy cancer service to haematology and oncology cancer patients
- To assist in developing, providing, managing and monitoring a safe and effective clinical pharmacy service to haematology and oncology cancer patients
- To provide highly specialist pharmaceutical input to these patients, working with the multidisciplinary team -To participate in risk management by actively mitigating medication errors in the service
- To support providing supervision, support and clinical training for pharmacy colleagues and other healthcare professionals around medicines management for cancer services when needed
- To make cost-effective recommendations without compromising patient care.
- To deputise for the highly specialist pharmacists in their absence
- To communicate complex drug or medicine-related information to patients & relatives in prescription medication counselling, drug history taking and reviewing prescriptions.
- Communicates with medical and nursing staff regarding medicine management issues whereby persuasive skills are required for practising against evidence-based medicine/formulary guidelines
- Participates and discusses within the multidisciplinary team on a specific ward the provision of drug-related information and assessment of patient’s treatment
Person Specification
- The pharmacist will be working towards or completed the SACT passport and have experience in Oncology and/or Haematology
- GPHC Registered
- Full Right To Work
- Masters In Pharmacy
Blackstone Benefits
✅Assigned specialised recruitment consultant
✅Access to exclusive and flexible UK locum and permanent jobs
✅Complete onboarding support
✅Framework Rates
✅Informed tailored career advice
✅Personalised job alerts
✅Unlimited referral bonus
✅Prompt payroll