Job summary
The Cancer Services Division at UHB delivers world class cancer care to patients from across the country, with a range of specialised services in Oncology & Haematology, delivered by a multidisciplinary team.
We are pleased to offer an experienced individual the opportunity to be the Advanced Pharmacist for Haematology/Oncology Services at the Trust.
You will be a highly motivated individual and a team player with exceptional communication skills and a strong desire to use your knowledge, skills and experience to improve patient care and influence healthcare professionals in the best use of medicines.
You will deliver a high-quality specialist clinical pharmacy service and will be able to demonstrate effective leadership and management of staff and allocated services.
With the support of the senior team within Cancer Services, you will lead on core directorate activities such as reporting and analysis of medicines expenditure, clinical governance and risk management activities, as well as advancing your knowledge and skills within a specific clinical area.
Opportunities to gain further skills to enhance your career will be available.
If you have a passion to provide an excellent, patient focused pharmacy service within a large and friendly team we encourage you to apply. Interviews will take place on 16th October.
For more information please contact: Nicola Turner, Associate Chief Pharmacist -- Technical & Clinical Oncology Services: Mob: 07909997303, nicola.turner@uhb.nhs.uk
Main duties of the job
*The Advanced Pharmacist for Clinical Oncology has management responsibility for the ongoing development and sustainability of a high quality, innovative clinical service to oncology/haematology patients across Queen Elizabeth, Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull sites of the Trust.
*The post holder will manage the clinical service delivery of pharmacists working within oncology/haematology and provide advice on pharmaceutical matters.
*The post holder will manage, lead, develop and participate in practice research, risk management, clinical intervention monitoring and clinical audit, including interface issues. They will represent the Trust in relevant clinical networks and in joint work with locality ICS, and relevant Regional and National bodies.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *BSc, BPharm, MPharm or equivalent in pharmacy
- *Postgraduate Masters in clinical oncology or equivalent specialist experience
- *Postgraduate Diploma in management or equivalent experience
- *Member of The General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- *Non-medical prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
- *Substantial experience as a clinical oncology pharmacy practitioner
- *Ability to effectively influence other NHS professionals at both senior management/clinical level.
- *Substantial experience in project management, developing services and policy at a strategic level
- *Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- *Substantial experience of managing staff
- *Ability to manage budgets and deliver on cost improvement programmes
- *Previous experience in delivering training and education and undertaking audit and research
- *Experience of managing and implementing service developments
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Remains calm and personally effective in all situations and able to change communication style to suit the audience
- *Able to identify and priorities tasks and organise and plan own work to meet deadlines along with prioritising work for others
- *Ability to present complex, sensitive or contentious information to large groups of patients, clinicians and senior managers
- *Negotiating and influencing skills, particularly with decision makers, service managers
- *Able to critically appraise and evaluate information
- *Excellent presentation skills
- *Ability to manage change in a complex environment
- *Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- *Word processing, email and accurate data entry skills
- *Demonstrable experience of writing reports and business cases
- *Proven Business Planning skills with project and financial management
- *Proven ability to motivate others
- *Integrates research evidence into practice
- *Identifies own training needs
- *Ability to cope with frequent interruptions where the job holder has to change from one activity to another at the response of a third party
- *Demonstrates competence to maintains own CPD portfolio and identifies and meets own training needs
- *Able to develop systems to maintain and improve quality of service
- *Computer literacy and keyboard skills
- *Cross-site working to meet service needs
- *Participation in 7 day week rota including bank holidays and weekends and on-call rota
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *BSc, BPharm, MPharm or equivalent in pharmacy
- *Postgraduate Masters in clinical oncology or equivalent specialist experience
- *Postgraduate Diploma in management or equivalent experience
- *Member of The General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- *Non-medical prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
- *Substantial experience as a clinical oncology pharmacy practitioner
- *Ability to effectively influence other NHS professionals at both senior management/clinical level.
- *Substantial experience in project management, developing services and policy at a strategic level
- *Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- *Substantial experience of managing staff
- *Ability to manage budgets and deliver on cost improvement programmes
- *Previous experience in delivering training and education and undertaking audit and research
- *Experience of managing and implementing service developments
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Remains calm and personally effective in all situations and able to change communication style to suit the audience
- *Able to identify and priorities tasks and organise and plan own work to meet deadlines along with prioritising work for others
- *Ability to present complex, sensitive or contentious information to large groups of patients, clinicians and senior managers
- *Negotiating and influencing skills, particularly with decision makers, service managers
- *Able to critically appraise and evaluate information
- *Excellent presentation skills
- *Ability to manage change in a complex environment
- *Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- *Word processing, email and accurate data entry skills
- *Demonstrable experience of writing reports and business cases
- *Proven Business Planning skills with project and financial management
- *Proven ability to motivate others
- *Integrates research evidence into practice
- *Identifies own training needs
- *Ability to cope with frequent interruptions where the job holder has to change from one activity to another at the response of a third party
- *Demonstrates competence to maintains own CPD portfolio and identifies and meets own training needs
- *Able to develop systems to maintain and improve quality of service
- *Computer literacy and keyboard skills
- *Cross-site working to meet service needs
- *Participation in 7 day week rota including bank holidays and weekends and on-call rota
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
