Clinical Pharmacist inDarlington inDarlington PUBLISHED MON 23 DEC 2024

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest integrated care providers in England, serving a population of around 600,000 people. We are a high performing organisation with a track record of success.

As a pharmacy service we pride ourselves in working at the leading edge of clinical pharmacy practice and medicines management with our teams achieving national recognition for innovative, high-quality patient care.

One of our Cancer Pharmacists has moved to a Consultant post, meaning we are looking for a reliable and forward thinking Senior Cancer Services Pharmacist to join the CDDFT team.

The post will be based at Darlington Memorial Hospital working in the Aseptic Unit supporting the provision of chemotherapy to three locations around the region.

It will also involve the delivery of Oncology clinics, where patients will be seen between Consultant reviews. The role will also involve both face-to-face and remote review of patients, the ordering of appropriate tests, and the prescribing of treatments.

The post-holder will work as part of our Pharmacy Cancer Services team based in the Darlington Aseptic Unit in the Pharmacy Department. For the delivery of cancer clinics, this may be at one of a number of hospital sites in the region as determined by the current cancer services review.

They will be the lead for training rotational and foundation year pharmacists during their time working in the unit within their speciality.

The role includes in-depth clinical screening of new chemotherapy patients, screening cancer prescriptions and releasing aseptically prepared items from the S10 Aseptic Unit. The Trust supplies chemotherapy to 3 different locations, and works with clinicians from both James Cook University Hospital and Newcastle University Teaching Hospitals using the ChemoCare prescribing system.

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The post holder will help lead and manage a team of pharmacy staff and is responsible for managing the delivery of safe, effective and efficient pharmacy and medicines management services to a defined group of patients and service users

To act as an Authorised Pharmacist providing supervision of the Aseptic Unit

To provide and support the delivery and development of pharmacy and medicine management services within the trust, including involvement in research and audit

To maintain and develop a portfolio of personal clinical activity within the trust at a level commensurate with an advanced pharmacist.

To lead on education and training for pharmacists in the Cancer Services team within their speciality.

To provide expert advice in their specialist field to all members of the directorate, the Trust and the wider health economy.

To employ models of practice that recognises the needs of patients and carers whilst maintaining practice that is embedded in the principles of risk minimisation and patient safety.

To review outpatient clinic patients with either solid tumour malignancies or haematological malignancies, ordering and reviewing investigations and prescribing chemotherapy under Consultant supervision in line with professional competence.

To supervise, support and develop other pharmacy staff, in particular junior pharmacists, pre-registration pharmacists, and other Trust personnel as required

To monitor the practice of other healthcare providers, including medical staff, to ensure that prescribing and medicines use is safe and effective for patients. This would include the resolution of local prescribing issues and contribution to the education and training of clinical and non-clinical staff to promote safe and effective medicines use within the trust.