Advanced Pharmacist - Clinical Trials

Job summary

We are looking for a motivated and driven pharmacist, who is passionate about working with innovative clinical trials medicines which will be part of cancer medicines of tomorrow. You will become our Advanced Pharmacist - Clinical Trials, you will have an independent work load but will have full support from ourPrincipal Pharmacist for Clinical Trials who will be able to support you to help our patients gain access to clinical trials.

There are opportunities to specialise clinically in a tumour specific area in solid tumour services.

The Pharmacy clinical trials team is a dedicated to implementing and ensuring our clinical trials are available.

Our Pharmacy team is large, diverse and friendly. Working within a cutting edge clinical environment we are supported to be forward thinking and innovative. This role represents an exciting opportunity to become a member of our team.

You will support the Trustwide implementation of clinical trials, liaising closely with aseptic services, MDT colleagues from clinical services, procurement and our wholly owned subsidiary, PharmaC.

You will be working within the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, providing excellent cancer care to patients across the North West (including North Wales and the Isle of Man). We have 3 site locations; the central Liverpool site and hub sites in the Wirral and Aintree. It is an exciting time for pharmacy as we have moved into our purpose built hospital, with state of the art aseptic facilities.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will work alongside a clinical trials and R&D team , working in bringing new innovative treatments into practice, reviewing ongoing amendments to trials and working closely with the research practitioners.

• Provide clinical, professional and technical expertise to support the delivery, development and monitoring of high quality patient focused pharmacy services to oncology patients at the Clatterbridge-Liverpool site.
• Provide highly specialised clinical pharmacy services to cancer services.
• Support the implementation of clinical trials chemotherapy electronic prescribing to the oncology service
• Provides medicines optimisation services including dispensary duties, ward cover and aseptic release cover when required

Working pattern will be 37.5 hours per week. Late duty, weekends, bank holidays and on-call will be part of the post.

Prior experience in oncology or haematology is not required as a full clinical grounding will be provided if required.

About us

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is one of three specialist cancer centres in England. With 1,800 specialist staff and three sites, we are one of the largest NHS providers of non-surgical cancer treatment. The Trust has a unique multi-site care model serving the 2.4 million population across Cheshire and Merseyside and is consistently rated by patients as one of the best performing hospitals.

Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do.

Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.

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