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NHS Lothian Pharmacy & Medicines Service
Royal Hospital for Children & Young People
Advanced Pharmacist – Clinical Trials
Paediatric Haematology / Oncology
Band 8a, 1.0 WTE, 37 hours
(including evening, weekend working, on-call and public holiday commitments)
NHS Lothian covers Edinburgh city, East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian. We are the second largest health system in NHS Scotland and one of only four teaching Boards. We have strategic partnerships with local Universities, Local Authorities and our four Integration Joint Boards. We serve a population of 900,000, providing a range of primary, community based and acute hospital services. We also provide regional and national services across a range of clinical specialties.
The vision for the Pharmacy & Medicines service is to deliver clinically led, person-centred services to ensure patients across Lothian get the best from their medicines and pharmacy services. We are focussed on creating an environment where each person in the team has the opportunity to flourish, develop and make best use of their skills.
This is an exciting time to join our innovative and enthusiastic team who are committed to service modernisation, including job planning, as well as developing the role of all members of the pharmacy team in line with the NHS Lothian Pharmacy & Medicines Strategic priorities and action plan.
NHS Lothian pharmacy clinical trials team is integral to the delivery of approximately 200 clinical trials across its sites in a wide variety of clinical indications. We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic pharmacist who demonstrates a high level of professional practice and reasoning to join our established multidisciplinary pharmacy clinical trials service to support the expansion of our clinical trials portfolio and to implement local and national strategies and work collaboratively with both pharmacy services and the research community across NHS Lothian to ensure the delivery of clinical trials in an equitable manner.
Candidates should demonstrate considerable experience working within a clinical and clinical trials environment and evidence an excellent working knowledge of clinical trial guidelines and regulations as well as hospital pharmacy services.
You will be working as part of the paediatric haematology and oncology multidisciplinary clinical team providing tertiary service delivery to children and young people with cancer and benign haematology, where clinical trials are an integral part of the clinical service. This role will deliver the paediatric haematology and oncology clinical trial portfolio and will involve a high degree of interaction with the clinical services team where you will be based.
Candidates will have an enthusiasm for developing self and others, leadership and staff management experience and be able to demonstrate personal values aligned with the NHS Lothian Values. They must be reliable, possess excellent communication and organisational skills and can plan and deliver a service, whilst also working to deadlines. They must be able to work independently as well as being able to work effectively as part of a team. There will be line management responsibilities to Specialist Pharmacists from the core pharmacy team.
Candidates must have a master’s degree in pharmacy or equivalent, registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council, have a postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification or equivalent OR demonstration of competence to the level of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Core Advanced Pharmacist Curriculum, be a Supplementary and / or independent prescriber on the General Pharmaceutical Council and have post-registration hospital pharmacy practice experience.
The job is based at the Royal Hospital For Children & Young People and includes participation in their weekend, on-call and public holiday rotas. There may be limited travel across other NHS sites.
For further information please contact:
Hazel Milligan, Lead Pharmacist, Clinical Trials – hazel.milligan@nhs.scot or call 0131 537 1208
Neil Richardson, Lead Pharmacist Paediatric Haematology Oncology – Neil.Richardson@nhs.scot or call 0131 312 1752
This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.