Pharmacy Manager Cancer and Clinical Trials

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

To maintain a clinical expertise and develop particular areas of interest as appropriate and relevant to the substantive role and in accordance with the Trust and Pharmacy strategy.

To be recognised as an expert within Oncology and Haematology clinical pharmacy speciality.

Clinical Service Organisation and Management role

To manage the cancer & Clinical Trials pharmacy team in accordance with Organisation policy and procedures, for example, pharmacy rotas including cover for sickness, vacancies and leave and performance management.

To deputise for the Clinical Director for Pharmacy at high level meetings within the area of specialism in the absence of or at the request of the Clinical Director for Pharmacy or the Deputy Chief Pharmacist.

Education and Training Responsibilities

To provide a comprehensive induction programme in cancer services and Clinical Trials for all new members of staff coming into Pharmacy.

To ensure each member of staff within cancer services & Clinical Trials has a comprehensive training package tailored to their grade and duties, in accordance with MHRA and quality assurance standards.

Expert practice

To provide strategic advice to the Clinical Director for Pharmacy to enable implementation and delivery of a patient centred medicines management / pharmacy service to Oncology and Haematology patients.

To provide strategic advice to the Clinical Director for Pharmacy to enable implementation and delivery of a high quality, growing clinical trials portfolio.

Professional Leadership

To be recognised as having attained the highest levels of pharmaceutical expertise in Oncology and Haematology.

To expand the boundaries of the pharmacy profession

Professional Role

To ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times

To be professionally accountable for actions and advice.

Please refer to the Job Description for further details

Skills

Essential

• IT and presentation skills and report writing
• Meets targets and identifies a vision for the delivery of pharmacy services to patients
• Good inter-personal skills, with the ability to liaise and influence senior managers and consultants
• Meets expected levels of practice as identified by others and identifies new areas of practice
• Identifies and prioritises clinical work and new clinical pharmacy services
• Understands local and national priorities in care and has the ability to reconcile these with local realities
• Demonstrable ability to manage time, people and resources to deliver outcomes
• Integrates research evidence and audit results into practice; documented experience of own research & audit
• Identifies and manages risk
• Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the Clinical Governance agenda
• Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge, clinical reasoning and judgement; manages difficult and ambiguous problems
• Identifies own training needs, actively seeks training opportunities and maintains a portfolio of practice
• Works autonomously and can delegate authority appropriately
• Evaluates the quality of own work and can evaluate service quality
• An ability to prioritise a complex workload and work accurately under pressure

Qualifications and knowledge

Essential

• BPharm / BSc / MPharm (or equivalent)
• GPhC Registration
• Higher Degree / Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience
• Working knowledge of clinical trials and associated legislation

Desirable

• MRPharmS
• MSc or PhD in Clinical Pharmacy
• Independent prescribing qualification as a pharmacist
• Formal postgraduate training in haematology or oncology.

Experience

Essential

• Broad experience of providing a clinical service to haematology & oncology patients at a senior level
• Experience of managing drug expenditure for a specialty and understanding of budgetary mechanism
• Experience of working with commissioners to manage drug use
• Previous evaluations or reviews of medicines used in the specialty's patient.
• Experience as a trainer
• Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide patient care
• Experience of audit work.
• Personnel management
• Service development
• An awareness of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues relevant to the directorate's patient.
• Experience of supervising, developing and appraising staff as well as giving feedback
• Proven experience of working at a strategic level with senior clinicians and managers and experience of working in an integrated directorate team

Communication

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to influence others
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

Specific requirements

Essential

• Able to perform the duties of the post with reasonable aids and adaptations
• Knowledge and understanding of the safe handling and dispensing of cytotoxic medications, including COSHH.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).