Bank Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Oncology

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Job Summary

Hourly rate: Competitive

Location: 33 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7HY

Contract: Bank

What are we looking for?

Cleveland Clinic London are looking to recruit Bank Senior Clinical Pharmacists – Oncology to join our Pharmacy team. While our Oncology Centre is in development, this is an exciting opportunity for experienced oncology pharmacists to help shape a brand-new service from the ground up. The Bank Senior Clinical Pharmacists will play a key role in establishing the necessary guidelines, policies, and protocols ahead of opening, ensuring a robust, safe, and patient-centred oncology pharmacy service is in place from the outset.

We have flexible shifts available between 08:00 and 20:00, Monday to Friday, with the potential for additional weekend work.

What makes us different?

Cleveland Clinic London offers a brand-new high-acuity environment with the very latest equipment, where caregivers are encouraged to grow their expertise across multiple specialties, and in collaboration with expert clinicians. Our Mission, ‘Caring for life, researching for health, and educating those who serve’, assures our unwavering commitment to professional development.

The post holders will provide expert pharmaceutical care across inpatient wards, chemotherapy day units, and outpatient clinics. This includes the clinical screening and verification of systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT) prescriptions, as well as a key role in medicines governance, supporting the development, implementation, and ongoing review of oncology guidelines and protocols.

What will your duties include?

• Contribute to the development and implementation of pharmacy service standards, guidelines and care pathways relevant to oncology.
• Support the introduction of new medicines, commissioning decisions and treatment protocols in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
• Lead the day-to-day clinical pharmacy service to oncology and haematology patients across inpatient wards, the chemotherapy day unit and outpatient clinics.
• Act as an authorised pharmacist in the pharmacy aseptic unit, undertaking prescription validation and release of chemotherapy, biological and CIVAS products.
• Development and maintenance of up-to-date oncology pharmaceutical guidelines, protocols and Patient Group Directions.

What we need from you?

• Completion of a master’s degree in pharmacy (or equivalent) (essential).
• Post graduate clinical diploma in clinical pharmacy (hospital) or equivalent experience (essential).
• Full registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) (essential).
• BOPA passport - level 2c adult solid tumour and haematology modules (desirable).
• Significant experience in oncology and/or haematology pharmacy (essential).
• Experience of clinical verification of SACT prescriptions (essential).

What can we offer you?

As a private hospital with no shareholders, we reinvest profits back into our organisation. This means we can offer tailored support and development for caregivers, alongside benefits such as:

• Auto-Enrolment of 5% pension - Cleveland Clinic contributes 10% through Salary Exchange
• Priority shifts over agency workers
• Weekly pay
• Access to the LHQ Hub giving you discounts to local venues and restaurants.

Who we are?

Cleveland Clinic is one of the leading providers of specialised medical care in the world, providing clinical excellence and superior patient outcomes for almost 6 million patient visits per year across more than 200 locations. We employ over 80,000 caregivers worldwide and continue to drive innovation in healthcare.

With over 100 years of history, our “Patients First” philosophy is at the heart of everything that we do.

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Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check

This role may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

“Let’s deliver World Class care together!”

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CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity/Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment/engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.