Advanced Pharmacist - SACT - Huntingdon

at  North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a confident and skilled Clinical Pharmacist aiming to pursue your career in an unfamiliar and challenging setting with excellent work-life balance?
Join the team at North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust to deliver high-quality pharmacy service to our cancer patients. You will be primarily based at Hinchingbrooke Hospital although you may be required to travel to other sites across the Trust. All hospitals are served by good transport links across the region and beyond.
The pharmacy cancer team provides a We are keen to develop a pharmacist prescriber role within our oncology outpatient clinics. Therefore, a non-medical prescriber qualification would be desirable.
To be eligible for this role, you will be an excellent communicator and have strong clinical and leadership experience within oncology and haemato-oncology. You will lead and operationally manage a team of pharmacists, technicians and support staff offering a clinical service across the haematology/oncology ward and day unit and liaising with the clinical trials and aseptics teams.
With post-registration experience of hospital pharmacy practice, you will hold a Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent post-graduate qualification. There will be opportunities to undertake a non-medical prescribing qualification if not already held.
This post will receive a £1000 Welcome Bonus, payable in one instalment upon commencement, subject to terms and conditions.
You will play a key role in the development and delivery of safe, high quality and cost-effective Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) and PN clinical services that deliver key pharmacy service and national benchmark standards for the care of patients on the site.
Working collaboratively with the lead oncology, haematology and clinical staff, you will be leading the development of clinical pharmacy services for SACT and PN on the site and through homecare.
You will make a significant contribution to the delivery of corporate, divisional and departmental operational and strategic priorities and to the modernisation of pharmacy services across the Trust.
As a team leader, you will actively report site service delivery into the departmental senior management meetings and deputise for the Principal Pharmacist SACT, PN and Manufacturing at departmental, Divisional and Trust meetings as required.
For more information on the role or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Laura Simon, Principal Pharmacist - SACT, PN & Manufacturing at laura.simon@nhs.net.
We are committed to ensure a work-life balance to all our staff by offering full time and part time roles, flexible working hours on a shift pattern to fit around your family life.
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and candidates form our local communities.

Benefits to you

• Relocation package in line with the Trust policy;
• Flexible working opportunities;
• Career development and training;
• Increased hourly rates for unsociable hours e.g. night shifts, weekends, bank holidays;
• 27 days annual leave for new starters, rising to 29 days after five years of service and 33 days after 10 years of service, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro-rata for part time staff);
• NHS Pension Scheme:
• Wellbeing support and activities;
• In-house physiotherapy Service;
• On-site canteens with subsidised meals;
• Subsidised staff parking (currently free).
• Free Stagecoach Bus Travel to and from work within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

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