The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical services and Homecare Pharmacist (with EDC)
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Exciting Opportunity for a Band 7 Clinical Pharmacist
We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, enthusiastic Band 7 Clinical Pharmacist to specialise in the Trust’s Pharmacy Homecare Service and contribute to service developments within designated disease groups. The post is split equally between the Pharmacy Homecare Service and Clinical Services team. Working with our Principal Pharmacist Medicines Optimisation, you will help shape and deliver the NHS 10-year plan of shifting care from hospital to community.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and develop homecare medicines optimisation services, alongside the Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist – Homecare and Medicines Value.
- Provide a specialist pharmacist service to the homecare team, including the Christie at Home team and Outsourced homecare.
- Manage services for the homecare specialist area through liaison with external homecare providers.
- Deputise for the Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist – Homecare and Medicines Value as required.
- Provide a clinical pharmacy service to inpatient wards as allocated.
- Provide support to the dispensary, aseptic, satellite units, and peripheral Christie@sites if required.
- Qualify as an independent prescriber (if qualification not already achieved) and work as an independent prescriber within a designated disease group working alongside the relevant MDT team.
- Provide advice on medicine-related issues and clinical trials to healthcare professionals.
- Participate in weekend and Bank Holiday rotas and additional out-of-hours and emergency duty commitment (EDC) duties as required to meet the needs of the service.
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Requirements
- Good prioritisation and organisational skills to manage both aspects of the role effectively.
- Initially, the postholder will work on the inpatient wards while completing clinical competencies.
- They will then provide 0.5 WTE support for the management and development of Homecare Services and 0.5 WTE clinical pharmacy support, including inpatient ward cover and screening Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy prescriptions.
About the Role
Our pharmacists work closely with multidisciplinary teams, with many practising as non-medical prescribers in outpatient clinics. We are committed to expanding these opportunities and support professional development through postgraduate study, research, secondments, and collaborative projects with research partners and the University of Manchester.
You will join a friendly, supportive, and expanding team, helping to develop innovative services for cancer patients. If you are enthusiastic, proactive, and committed to delivering high-quality patient care, we would like to hear from you.
About The Christie
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, looking after more than 64,000 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 25% of patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.
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We are the largest radiotherapy provider in the NHS with one in 20 treatments delivered at The Christie. We have up to 15 linear accelerators operating across our network of sites. We operate the largest chemotherapy unit in the UK on our main site and treatments are also provided at 13 other networked sites, and in patients' homes. And as a specialist tertiary surgical centre, we focus on rare cancers, complex procedures, and multidisciplinary approaches to cancer surgery, specialising in colorectal, peritoneal, gynaecological, urological, and plastic surgery.
We are also an international leader in research, with world-first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We have been named by the UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), as one of the best hospitals providing opportunities for patients to participate in clinical research studies, with more than 800 studies open at any time, caring for over 3,000 patients.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Carolanne O’Sullivan
- Job title: Principal Pharmacist
- Email address: carolanne.osullivan3@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0161 446 3000
To arrange an informal visit or discuss the role:
- Lauren Bayles, Clinical Service Deputy pharmacist.
- Email: lauren.bayles@nhs.net
- Rosalind Wyatt-John, Medicines Optimisation pharmacist – Homecare and Medicines Value
- Email: rosalind.wyatt-john@nhs.net
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