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St Johns Hospital Cancer Unit (ECC@SJH)
Specialist Cancer Care Pharmacist
Band 7, 1.0 WTE, 37.5 hours – Permanent
With weekend and oncall commitment
£40,872 - £47,846
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.
The St John’s Hospital (SJH) cancer unit is part of the Edinburgh Cancer Centre (ECC) providing day-case and outpatient cancer services. The pharmacists on the unit are an essential, highly valued and integral part of the multi-disciplinary team delivering systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT) services to a broad range of oncology and haematology patients. The successful applicant will work closely with senior pharmacy colleagues and the multidisciplinary team to deliver high quality pharmaceutical care for cancer patients.
We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic pharmacist to join the pharmacy team delivering the highest quality pharmacy services across these areas. The post holder will contribute to the development and delivery of the clinical pharmacy service in cancer care. This is an exciting time with new treatments in the horizon, including clinical trials. There will also be service improvement and personal development opportunities such as independent prescribing roles for those aspiring to develop their clinical practice. This is an excellent progression opportunity for a rotational pharmacist or a specialist pharmacist looking for expanding your clinical portfolio.
Candidates must have a Master of Pharmacy Degree or equivalent, must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), and should have completed or have equivalent competence as mapped to the Post Registration Foundation Pharmacist Framework available at:
Post-Registration Foundation Programme for Pharmacists in Sc (scot.nhs.uk)
There will be opportunity to undertake further postgraduate qualifications in this post.
Ideally, candidates will have experience pro-actively influencing prescribing within a secondary care environment, and will have gained experience working in a patient focussed environment using their knowledge and skills to improve patient care and promote optimal outcomes from medicines. Cancer experience is desirable but not essential and candidates will be fully supported through relevant training.
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.
For further information please contact Fionagh Ross, Lead Cancer Care Pharmacist NHS Lothian Fionagh.ross@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk or Jennifer Morrison, Lead Cancer Care Pharmacist jennifer.morrison9@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk Tel 0131 537 2337