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- Chemotherapy, in the UK's largest chemotherapy unit, as well as via 10 other sites, a mobile chemotherapy unit and in patients’ homes
- Highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer. Click here to find out more about surgery at The Christie.
- A wide range of support and diagnostic services
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We are a national cancer specialist based in Manchester
We serve a population of 3.2 million people across Greater Manchester and Cheshire while 26% of our patients are referred to us from across the UK.
We have an annual turnover of £230 million, operating with 2,500 staff, 300 volunteers, 30,000 public members and one of the largest hospital charities in the UK.
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We have been delivering world-first breakthroughs for over 100 years
The Christie has been named, by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), as one of the best hospitals providing opportunities for patients to take part in clinical research studies.
The Christie has one of the largest trials portfolios in the UK, with over 650 active clinical trials.
We are part of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre working with The University of Manchester and Cancer Research UK. We are also one of seven partners in the Manchester Academic Health Science Research Centre.
We established The Christie School of Oncology to provide undergraduate education, clinical professional and medical education - the first of its kind in the UK.
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Lead Education and Training Pharmacist
Closed for applications on: 16-Jul-2024 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 16-Jul-2024 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Pharmacy Clinical - E00920
- Town
- Manchester
- Postcode
- M20 4BX
- Major / Minor Region
- Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 8b)
Specialty
- Main area
- Pharmacy Clinical - E00920 - E00920
Job overview
We are one of the largest oncology Trusts in Europe with an international reputation for clinical excellence, research and development. This is a unique opportunity to work with us to contribute to the challenging and rewarding specialty of oncology to lead and further develop education and training initiatives within the clinical pharmacy service.
Pharmacy education and training is going to be an exciting and challenging area over the next few years with newly registered pharmacists being qualified with independent prescriber status and the opportunity for the Christie hospital to host Foundation year pharmacists for the very first time.
We currently have an opportunity for a highly motivated, enthusiastic lead education and training pharmacist (band 8b) to join our team. The postholder will provide strategic leadership on pre and post registration pharmacy education and development at The Christie. We have wide-ranging educational opportunities in the department with our pharmacy technicians and early years pharmacists undertaking clinical diplomas as well as senior pharmacists embarking on DPharm / MSc programmes. The postholder will be involved in a co-ordinating a range of activities to support the education agenda, to ensure the provision of an effective and efficient pharmacy service to the Trust, ensuring all patients receive a high level of service and care.
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Develop and deliver an education strategy that supports the development and delivery of a high-quality pharmacy service.
To meet the training needs of pharmacy professionals and other multi-disciplinary staff within cancer, in order that they can undertake their roles in a manner which encourages safe, clinically effective, and cost-efficient use of medicines for these patients.
· Support pharmacy professionals through their SACT accreditation, utilising the British Oncology Pharmacy Association Cancer Pharmacy Education and Training Standards.
· Develop local training programmes incorporating both regional and national curriculums for cancer pharmacy professionals’ group by developing yearly training plans.
· Responsible for assessing cancer pharmacy technicians and pharmacists as competent to undertake patient consultations within outpatient clinics and screen SACT.
· Monitor trainee progress to ensure deadlines are met and liaising with relevant internal and external supervisors as required.
· Develop a training matrix and workforce roadmap for internal staff to ensure all suitable training is carried out.
- Responsible, with the assistance of the pharmacy transformation delivery manager (workforce), for the development of the pharmacy Learning Needs Analysis and subsequent funding bids for education and training.
Working for our organisation
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.
We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.
We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Education:
· Identify and develop suitable practice and educational supervisors for training programmes in line with the department local Education & Training strategy.
· Responsible for organising educational sessions e.g., journal clubs, case studies, tutorials, training sessions, external courses, reflective practice, and clinical supervision.
· Co-ordinate and plan the induction programmes for new cancer pharmacy staff to ensure new starters are trained and accredited sufficiently to undertake their respective roles safely and effectively.
· Directly train new pharmacy professionals on BOPA Cancer Pharmacy Education & Training Standards and all aspects of clinical pharmacy services
· To develop, evaluate and coordinate the pharmacy elements of the nurses, doctor’s induction and mandatory training and selected elements of higher-level training.
· To evaluate, coordinate and continually improve the training and accreditation programmes for cancer clinical pharmacy staff, whilst ensuring accreditation records are kept. The training and development needs of individuals must meet requirements for the current and future delivery of the Pharmacy service.
· To support networking of professionals across the organisations, help to build a workforce who share best practice, encourage innovation and high performance - ultimately leading to better patient care, experience, and outcomes.
· To collaborate with higher education providers and national education and training bodies to develop marketable specialist education and training courses.
· Develop teacher practitioner and educational supervisor roles with the University of Manchester, ensuring teaching on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes is delivered.
· To support cancer pharmacy leads in the delivery of both external and in-house training programmes to enable pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and Foundation year Pharmacists / pre-registration technicians to meet their professional requirements and developmental needs.
· Regularly evaluate effectiveness of training interventions introduced or provided.
· To identify own training and personal development needs. To maintain a clinical expertise and develop areas of interest as appropriate and relevant to the substantive role and in accordance with the Organisation and Pharmacy strategy.
· Act as a Practice Supervisor as required thus supervising and directing pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in the delivery of high-class pharmacy service.
· To be actively involved and coordinate training / teaching programmes, practice research and clinical or service improvement audits.
· To take responsibility for the recruitment and line management of foundation year pharmacists including those on the split industry scheme
· Responsible for the co-ordination of school/college work experience and foreign pharmacist clinical internships
· Responsible for the co-ordination and delivery of training for undergraduate university students including educational sessions, placements and research / project opportunities in collaboration with universities.
Service Development and Leadership:
- Conducts complex planning and organises provision of highly specialist service, plans & organises research opportunities, multidisciplinary teaching and audit to maintain and further develop strategies for service provision in order to meet the changing requirements of the Trust.
- Establish a series of performance targets against which the success of the post will be measured and reviewed on an ongoing basis.
- Demonstrate strong and effective leadership by promoting and modelling leadership behaviours.
- Promote the specialist pharmacy service through building links and relationships across the Trust.
- Identifies and develops service development opportunities. Take a pro-active role in the development and implementation of services in accordance with local, Trust and national requirements.
· Work collaboratively with other organisations to encourage and support the implementation of creative and innovative service models to improve healthcare inequality and drive efficiencies across the system.
Expert Practitioner:
· To provide highly specialist clinical pharmacy services to a disease group and wider MDT in accordance with all departmental, Trust and national standards, procedures and policies.
· Provision of highly specialist pharmaceutical expertise and clinical advice to optimise individual patient care through participation in the multidisciplinary team meetings, consultant ward rounds and outpatient clinics.
- To demonstrate the ability to apply expert clinical knowledge and advanced clinical reasoning and judgement in the management of complex cases.
- To manage difficult and ambiguous clinical problems and make decisions with limited information, or where the evidence is lacking within scope of competence.
· Accountable for own professional actions: guided by national protocols, legislation, hospital formularies; lead specialist in own area.
· Communicates highly complex drug or medicine related information to prescribers, clinicians, patients, relatives, some of which maybe highly sensitive or complex in nature and may be challenged. The post holder must have the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills due to the nature of the role undertaking consultations often in highly emotive circumstances.
- To be trained as a pharmacist independent prescriber and prescribe to appropriate patients in agreement with the relevant Consultants.
- To work autonomously and demonstrate accountability in managing own clinical caseload.
- Documents consultation outcomes / interventions / advice regarding patient care in the medical notes and report medication errors via the Trusts’ incident reporting system
- Utilisation and working knowledge of multiple EPMA systems, Trust resources and medicines information databases to facilitate a personalised approach to patient care.
- Work in partnership with patients and their carer(s) to improve their understanding of medications and addressing any issues around adherence or polypharmacy.
Medicines Management:
· Responsible for the development and implementation of the disease group medicines optimisation agenda and all associated policies and guidelines.
· Collaborate with the lead Consultants to develop a specialist medicines work plan and guideline which can be utilised within the Trust and as a reference across the GM Cancer Network.
· In conjunction with the lead consultants, submits new drug applications to DTC and Chair’s approval requests for named patient funding, thereby minimising delay to the patient.
- Promote UKMi-approved medicines information resources to support clinicians within the Trust in the safe and evidence-based prescribing of drugs.
- Make sustainable choices around medicines where appropriate to reduce carbon footprint of the Trust and help the NHS supply chain achieve the net zero target.
The closing date for this post may be extended if there are insufficient applicants or brought forward if there is a high volume of applicants.
We want to ensure that everyone who works at the Christie or uses our services is welcomed, valued and treated with dignity and respect. The Christie values diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for all and fair representation across the organisation at all levels. In support of these commitments, we particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority people and people with disabilities for this post. Appointment will be only on merit.
We are committed to creating a balanced and diverse workforce. As such we welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Together we will foster inclusion and tackle inequity and health inequalities in cancer care.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy
All positions within the Christie are subject to the receipt of satisfactory written references, medical clearance and evidence of your Right to Work in the UK. Some roles will require a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check. Please note if you are successfully appointed to a post with this Trust, you will be required to pay for your own DBS Disclosure.
By applying for this post you are agreeing to The Christie NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email, please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there.
If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, I regret that on this occasion your application will have been unsuccessful.
The Inter-Authority Transfer (IAT) process is a critical and beneficial component of ESR and will form part of the recruitment process. In the event that you are successful following interview your previous NHS employment data, if applicable will be transferred from your current / most recent employer.
Overseas candidates wishing to apply for this position and who would require immigration sponsorship, may wish to self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the post on the UKVI website.
You should be aware the Trust operates a No Smoking Policy and therefore employees are not permitted to smoke at work.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Vocational master’s degree in pharmacy
- GPhC registered pharmacist
- Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Independent prescribing qualification
- Training qualification e.g., accredited trainers’ scheme
- Planning and delivering training
Desirable criteria
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Post graduate education qualification.
- Leadership or management qualification or working towards one.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post-registration experience within an NHS hospital setting
- Experience of delivering clinical pharmacy services and highly specialist advice
- Experience of leading and managing change projects to improve services.
- Audit, project management and research experience
- Experience of training staff, setting, and delivering objectives
- Experience of leading on medication governance and medication safety
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working
- Experience of objective setting for other members of staff
- Line management experience with direct line management and appraisals
Desirable criteria
- Audit work
- Clinical governance
- Research publications
- Experience of working in education
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent oral and written communication skills to include communication of complex information
- Ability to provide highly complex information on Pharmacy Service issues and impart knowledge to and influence all levels of healthcare professionals (up to and including senior consultants/professor/executive director level)
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
- Self-motivating
- Ability to manage and implement change.
- High level of analytical and reflective skills
- Ability to train and act as mentor to other members of staff.
- Experience in undertaking research and development including audit in conjunction with University of Manchester
- Supervision and mentorship of others conducting audit in partnership with University of Manchester
- Regular complex audits carried out presenting to national peer group.
- Ability to identify own training and development needs.
- Ability to prioritise workload, work accurately, positively, and calmly under pressure, and meet deadlines.
- Proficient in all Microsoft Office software and ability to use search engines/medical databases to retrieve information.
- Awareness and compliance with funding mechanisms for medicines to ensure best value.
Desirable criteria
- Project implementation experience
- Advanced communication skills
- Evidence of consultation skills
- Clinical trials experience and/or GCP training
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the Medicines Management, Clinical Governance and Modernisation agendas of the NHS
- Sound medicines and clinical knowledge. Cost effective use of medicines and medicines management.
- Highly specialised knowledge of drugs used and therapeutic trends within specialist area.
- Knowledge of financial reporting and budget statement
- Knowledge of regulations and legislation relevant to Pharmacy Services
Values
Essential criteria
- Strive to deliver excellence and quality in work.
- Seek ways to continually improve
- Take responsibility for the development of others and support them to flourish and grow in their careers. Inspiring shared learning and making time to reflect on how we do things.
- Take time for team to come together and share their success and their feelings of achievement.
Other
Essential criteria
- Flexible working hours
- Ability to work under a high level of pressure, managing manage conflict and complaints, prioritising tasks and time effectively, but also dealing with frequent interruptions
- Required to contribute to all pharmacy OOH services (evening, weekend and BH rotas, plus emergency on-call service)
- May be required to work at any site that the Trust treats patients
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sue Stent
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacist Clinical Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 446 8453
- Additional information
Joanne McCaughey, Lead Pharmacist - Operations
Phone number - 0161 956 1096
Email address - [email protected]
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