Job summary
Expected Shortlisting
Date
18/08/2025
An
exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated and motivated pharmacist to
join the Haematology Pharmacy Team as an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist at
Leeds Teaching Hospitals.
As
the haematology service grows we have been supported with extra funding to
grow our specialist pharmacy team. The successful post holder would take on
the management of one of our speciality portfolios (Chronic
Lymphoproliferative Disorder's) whilst in addition providing clinical
pharmacy services to the full range of haematology in and outpatients as part
of the wider team.
We
are looking for someone who is able to manage a dynamic and changing workload
providing oversight to a specific sub speciality of Haematology. The post
holder will be expected to utilise skills around medicines governance,
finance and clinical trials.
In
addition, the successful candidate would be responsible for the validation of
Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) and inputting to pharmaceutical care on
our specialist inpatient wards. All additional training requirements would be
covered using our structured SACT verification training programme.
Experience
with SACT is desirable but certainly not essential. There are lots of skills
which can be brought from other specialties to support you in this role.
Main duties of the job
-
Provide an advanced clinical pharmacy service to our inpatient wards
including those receiving inpatient Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT)
-
Validation of SACT across a range of sub specialities
-
Support the review and setup of new clinical trials added to the haematology
portfolio as well as management of amendments to existing ones.
-
Utilisation of the ChemoCare prescribing system to setup both trial and
non-trial treatment templates for use in the Leeds Cancer Centre
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Attendance at speciality meetings and/or MDTs
-
Support the implementation of new anti-cancer treatments within the post
holders designated area of practice
-
Support Drug & Therapeutics processes for individual and cohort
applications for the unlicensed use of medicines
-
Undertake finance reporting to support the best value for medicines
agenda
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Provide training and supervision to colleagues in the cancer team and across
pharmacy
-
Supervise and line manage a junior pharmacist within the cancer services
pharmacy team
About us
The
haematology pharmacy team work together on a daily basis to ensure that some
of our most complex and challenging treatments within Leeds Teaching
Hospitals are delivered safely, efficiently and in a patient centered manner.
Our team is made up of some highly experienced pharmacists who have strong
working relationships with the wider multi-disciplinary team.
Any
new starter to the team receives a thorough induction drawing on the years of
experience possessed by our pharmacists and technicians within various
specialist fields.
We
have a strong ethos of workforce development. We strive to ensure that all
members of the team are able to access development opportunities not solely
limited to clinical work as well as the facilitation of regular team based
clinical education sessions.
Leeds
Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'
members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts
are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove
adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the
shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this
process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any
questions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
Lead the highly specialised
clinical pharmacy service to patients and the multidisciplinary team within a
given clinical speciality.
Supports the Trust's Prescribing
Standards and challenges practice where prescribers have not adhered to the
Medicines Code.
Demonstrate the ability to provide
safe, clinically effective and cost-effective use of medicines in accordance
with Trust policy, standard operating procedures and medicine legislation.
This will include individual prescription review to optimise therapy,
advising on dosage and side effects and on safe administration of medicines.
The post holder is expected to determine how the outcomes are best achieve in
specific circumstances.
Pharmacists who are registered as
prescribers will, with the agreement of the clinical director of the
speciality, prescribe within their level of competence, to support patient
care.
Plan, manage, monitor and review
individual patient care plans.
Participate in consultant ward
rounds and multi-disciplinary team meetings.
Manage difficult and ambiguous
problems, often when information is limited.
Undertake risk management,
including investigating clinical incidents in the clinical area and ensuring
compliance with medicine legislation.
The post holder will be expected to
identify, where necessary, areas that require service changes and develop a
strategy to carry out the change through consultation with senior colleagues
within and outside the pharmacy.
Manage the introduction of new
drugs, including unlicensed drugs, into the clinical speciality.
Manage the clinical pharmacist
input into clinical trials.
Develop and update policies for the
safe, effective and economic use of medicines through discussion with medical
and nursing staff.
Communication with Primary Care
about medicines policies or guidelines specific for their area of practice.
Management
Monitor and interpret expenditure
on medicines within own clinical speciality. Provide the Directorate with
regular reports to assist in the management of the drug budget
a. Attend the monthly Clinical
Speciality Management meetings to advise on medicine use and financial
implications
- Horizon scan for new drugs and
advise the clinical speciality meetings on the financial implications
b. Co-ordinate Medicines Use Savings
Projects
c. Review prescribing data from
out-patient clinics
Contribution to financial
initiatives
Write or respond to business cases
for service development to secure additional funding.
Responsible for day to day
supervision / management of specialist clinical pharmacists in clinical
speciality (some staff)
Research
and Education
Occasionally participates in
research and development within clinical speciality
Undertakes own research/audit
within clinical speciality
Supervise, teach, and assess junior
pharmacy staff completing training modules within the clinical area. This
input varies, mostly based on the experience of the post holder, and will
typically include:
- Acting as a trainer to
pre-registration and junior pharmacists in their area of specialist practice
- Being a named tutor for a
pre-registration and/or diploma pharmacist
- Lecturing on clinical issues
relevant to the specialty, as part of the pre-registration training program,
the clinical diploma, and any other in service training.
The post holder is also expected to
participate in the training of other clinical professionals within their
specialist area as requested.
Develop the role of a specialist
pharmacist through national links.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
Lead the highly specialised
clinical pharmacy service to patients and the multidisciplinary team within a
given clinical speciality.
Supports the Trust's Prescribing
Standards and challenges practice where prescribers have not adhered to the
Medicines Code.
Demonstrate the ability to provide
safe, clinically effective and cost-effective use of medicines in accordance
with Trust policy, standard operating procedures and medicine legislation.
This will include individual prescription review to optimise therapy,
advising on dosage and side effects and on safe administration of medicines.
The post holder is expected to determine how the outcomes are best achieve in
specific circumstances.
Pharmacists who are registered as
prescribers will, with the agreement of the clinical director of the
speciality, prescribe within their level of competence, to support patient
care.
Plan, manage, monitor and review
individual patient care plans.
Participate in consultant ward
rounds and multi-disciplinary team meetings.
Manage difficult and ambiguous
problems, often when information is limited.
Undertake risk management,
including investigating clinical incidents in the clinical area and ensuring
compliance with medicine legislation.
The post holder will be expected to
identify, where necessary, areas that require service changes and develop a
strategy to carry out the change through consultation with senior colleagues
within and outside the pharmacy.
Manage the introduction of new
drugs, including unlicensed drugs, into the clinical speciality.
Manage the clinical pharmacist
input into clinical trials.
Develop and update policies for the
safe, effective and economic use of medicines through discussion with medical
and nursing staff.
Communication with Primary Care
about medicines policies or guidelines specific for their area of practice.
Management
Monitor and interpret expenditure
on medicines within own clinical speciality. Provide the Directorate with
regular reports to assist in the management of the drug budget
a. Attend the monthly Clinical
Speciality Management meetings to advise on medicine use and financial
implications
- Horizon scan for new drugs and
advise the clinical speciality meetings on the financial implications
b. Co-ordinate Medicines Use Savings
Projects
c. Review prescribing data from
out-patient clinics
Contribution to financial
initiatives
Write or respond to business cases
for service development to secure additional funding.
Responsible for day to day
supervision / management of specialist clinical pharmacists in clinical
speciality (some staff)
Research
and Education
Occasionally participates in
research and development within clinical speciality
Undertakes own research/audit
within clinical speciality
Supervise, teach, and assess junior
pharmacy staff completing training modules within the clinical area. This
input varies, mostly based on the experience of the post holder, and will
typically include:
- Acting as a trainer to
pre-registration and junior pharmacists in their area of specialist practice
- Being a named tutor for a
pre-registration and/or diploma pharmacist
- Lecturing on clinical issues
relevant to the specialty, as part of the pre-registration training program,
the clinical diploma, and any other in service training.
The post holder is also expected to
participate in the training of other clinical professionals within their
specialist area as requested.
Develop the role of a specialist
pharmacist through national links.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Understanding and appreciation of local and national pharmaceutical and clinical strategies
- Understanding of NHS/government policy and its applications
- Skills around team dynamics and effective leadership strategies to optimise performance
- Advanced clinical pharmacy knowledge in a relevant area (does not need to be Cancer/Haematology)
Skills & behaviours
Essential
- Team player
- Enthusiastic
- Self motivated
- Able to work under own initiative
- Be highly adaptive to changing circumstances and situations
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Highly developed influencing and negotiating skills
Qualifications
Essential
- Registrant of the GPhC
- Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
- Non medical prescriber status
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Understanding and appreciation of local and national pharmaceutical and clinical strategies
- Understanding of NHS/government policy and its applications
- Skills around team dynamics and effective leadership strategies to optimise performance
- Advanced clinical pharmacy knowledge in a relevant area (does not need to be Cancer/Haematology)
Skills & behaviours
Essential
- Team player
- Enthusiastic
- Self motivated
- Able to work under own initiative
- Be highly adaptive to changing circumstances and situations
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Highly developed influencing and negotiating skills
Qualifications
Essential
- Registrant of the GPhC
- Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
- Non medical prescriber status
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).
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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).
