# Advanced Oncology Pharmacist – Electronic Prescribing

**Company**: East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
**Location**: Northwood
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £57,528 to £64,750 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are recruiting for an Advanced Oncology Pharmacist - Electronic Prescribing who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The Advanced Pharmacist - Electronic Prescribing will lead, manage and develop the operational pharmacy services to ensure that patients receive safe, high quality and clinical effective pharmaceutical care.

The role involves leading and managing the strategy, design, and development of the Electronic Prescribing (EP) system for Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT).

Key responsibilities include:

- Maintaining the EP system, electronic referrals, and electronic Patient Reported Outcome Measures for SACT

- Providing support and leadership for all aspects of SACT EP

- Facilitating the delivery of the oncology pharmacy service at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, with a particular focus on electronic prescribing

- Developing policies and procedures to ensure safe medication practices in relation to electronic prescribing

- Applying specialist knowledge to a designated patient group to develop pharmacist prescribing role, undertaking the clinical management and drug treatment of patients under an agreed clinical management plan following diagnosis by a medical practitioner

- Promoting the safe, clinically effective and cost-effective use of medicines by providing expert advice on oncology pharmacy issues including clinical, funding, and prescribing issues

- Contributing to the pharmacy management team to help deliver a strategic vision for the pharmacy department and business plan in line with cancer centre and trust strategies.

The postholder will be supported to develop their leadership and management skills. Candidates who do not meet all the essential and desirable criteria are welcome to apply for this role and a Band 7 to Band 8A developmental role will be offered.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year Per annum + 15% High Cost Area Supplement

- Permanent, full-time position

- Opportunities for professional development and growth

**Requirements:**

- Master's Degree in Pharmacy

- Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council as a pharmacist

- Postgraduate diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent

- Registered independent prescriber

- BOPA Passport - completion of adult level 2c

- Extensive previous hospital experience (post-registration)

- Experience in providing specialist pharmacist review of people with cancer

- Experience of delivering clinical pharmacy service and advice relating to the safe use of medicines

- Experience of developing and implementing medicines and service related policies for a specialty

- Experience in working experience with electronic prescribing system

- Good team player - able to work alone and supervise others when necessary

- Able to use initiative

- Assertive

- Good oral and written communication skills

- Ability to prioritise workload

- Good organisation skills

- Able to work under pressure

- Accurate and precise attention to detail

## Skills

### Required
- Pharmacy
- Electronic Prescribing
- Oncology
- Leadership
- Management
- Communication
- Organisation

### Nice to have
- Leadership and/or management qualifications
- Experience as a trainer
- Project management
- Protocol building validation with an e-prescribing system
- Risk assessment and mitigation

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