Lead Pharmacist for Cancer and Palliative Care

Job description Job responsibilities 1. To be responsible for the day to day leadership and management of Cancer Services at QEH.2. To be responsible for the coordination and delivery of a responsive, proactive, patient-focused clinical pharmacy service to the Surgery and Cancer division as well as Allied Clinical Services/Medicine division across the Trust. This will include the promotion of safe, effective and cost effective drug use to facilitate patient admission and enhance continuity of care across the primary and secondary care interface.1. To support the Lead Pharmacist Technical Services (UHL) and the Technical Services Manager in the implementation of technical service developments at QEH.2. To support the division in managing their drugs budget and act as the point of liaison for any service developments that involves medicines or pharmacy services in Oncology and Palliative Care. 3. To act as a role model and provide a consistently high standard of pharmaceutical service to patients in line with the Trust and Departmental objectives. 4. To provide operational and clinical support to pharmacy developments as dictated by trust, departmental and service objectives. This includes supervision, training and support to junior pharmacists, pre-registration pharmacists and other pharmacy staff as necessary.

5. To deputise for the Principal Pharmacist for Cancer Services & Palliative Care as required.1. To participate in the front-line provision of Pharmacy Services as appropriate and when required. To act as a clinical pharmacist in an appropriate area and participate in consultant ward rounds as required.

2. To be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a pharmacist independent prescriber.

3. To practice as a pharmacist independent prescriber, where appropriate to improve patient care and safety, and to continue to develop the role of pharmacist independent prescriber within the specialty.

4. To act as a clinical role model for other pharmacists within the team and demonstrate the ability to provide service that ensures the safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs and the ability to check clinically screened dispensed prescriptions.

5. To provide a safe and patient-focused clinical pharmacy service to wards, day units and clinics across the Trust. This includes undertaking medicines reconciliation, assessing pharmaceutical needs, assessing and facilitating the use of Patients Own Drugs, ensuring appropriate drug supply, maintaining both the One Stop Dispensing system and ward based dispensing service by pharmacy staff.

6. To demonstrate an intuitive grasp of situations based on knowledge, expertise and understanding and to make decisions about drug therapy with limited information.

7. To lead the training programme within Cancer and Palliative Care for pharmacists providing service to wards and day units across the Trust to ensure efficient and safe provision of clinical pharmacy service.

8. To lead on the development and maintenance of chemotherapy proformas for Cancer and Palliative Care as pre-printed prescriptions or on the Mosaiq e-prescribing system.

9. To support clinical verification of chemotherapy prescriptions and participate in peer review of cancer services and implementing changes in line with national standards.

10. To be responsible for intrathecal chemotherapy training for pharmacy staff.

11. To support the duties within pharmacy technical services.

12. To support the investigation of medication related incidents and formulation/delivery of action plans across the Trust to address any problems identified within Cancer and Palliative Care.

13. To contribute to the development and implementation of strategies to improve safe medicines use across the Trust.

14. To liaise with primary care colleagues to gather and disseminate patient medication issues to other healthcare staff.