Clinical Trials Pharmacist

Job overview

A fantastic opportunity has emerged for a passionate, highly motivated, and dynamic pharmacist to join the pharmacy clinical trials team at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.
This is an exciting time to join the Royal Marsden Hospital Clinical Trials Department. Our service is built around providing a high-quality service to our patients and staff of the Trust.
The Royal Marsden is a world-leading cancer centre with two hospitals: one in Chelsea, London, and another in Sutton, Surrey. We also have a satellite Medical Day Care Unit located on the grounds of Kingston Hospital, Surrey.
This position will be based in Sutton but will require working at our Chelsea site when necessary, to ensure consistent coverage and maintain the quality and speed of service during absences and annual leave.
Applicants should have previous experience in clinical trials, and a background in oncology or haemato-oncology would be advantageous.
You will be part of a team consisting of Pharmacists, Technicians and Assistants, who are always striving for excellence in all aspects of our work.

We are working collaboratively as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team to ensure we always deliver outstanding care to our patients.
Our team continues to support the research strategy of "taking personalized cancer treatment to the next level," with approximately over 400 active IMP studies and increasingly complex new clinical trials across all specialties, including gene therapies and cellular therapies studies.

Main duties of the job

• To contribute to the provision of the pharmacy clinical trials service to the Dispensaries (Chelsea & Sutton), Medical day Unit, West Wing Clinical Research Centre (WWCRC), Oak ward and day case areas of the Drug Development Unit and the Clinical Trial Dispensary across both sites.
• To assist the Clinical Trials Team with any day-to day clinical, dispensing, ward and research day units’ queries.
• To provide clinical trials advice while covering the research clinics and attending MDT. 
• To support research clinic prescribing 
• Provide clinical trial support and advice to other areas within pharmacy e.g. aseptic service, clinical services and to the research teams.
• To support the clinical trial team with clinical trial set-up of new studies, revision of amendments for ongoing studies already open at the trust, to provide continued support for the running and maintenance of current trial activity.
• To contribute to the provision of the pharmacy clinical trials service to the individual clinical units, R&D and the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide clinical support to clinical trial team.

Support education and training regarding clinical trial dispensing and preparation within pharmacy. Assist in the training of new pharmacists undergoing their accreditation for clinical trial chemotherapy prescription screening and clinical trial final product checking.

To provide continued support for the clinical trial set-up of new studies for the allocated unit.

To provide continued support for the running and maintenance of active studies, including the management of protocol amendments.

To assist in writing, reviewing and updating pharmacy clinical trial standard operating procedures.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

GPhC registered Pharmacist

Certificate in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent

Desirable criteria

Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

Member of RPS

Non-medical prescribing

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience in Hospital Pharmacy experience (including pharmacy ward experience) in an NHS or equivalent setting providing a clinical pharmacy service

Experience of delivering clinical pharmacy to a broad range of specialities & ability to provide highly specialist advice.

Audit, project management of research experience

Experience & ability to train/coach other members of staff.

Desirable criteria

Experience in Oncology +/- Haemato-Oncology Pharmacy practice.

Demonstrated skills/knowledge for preparing injections & working in an aseptic environment

Clinical Trial experience.

Working knowledge of GCP.

Experience with electronic prescribing systems.

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

Essential criteria

Excellent organisational, prioritisation & time management

Excellent interpersonal skills & communication skills (written and verbal)

Excellent presentation and problem-solving skills.

) Ability to use Microsoft Office applications eg. Word and Excel.

Desirable criteria

Awareness of current developments in research and pharmacy clinical trials.

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

Patient focused.

Professional appearance & demeanour.

Confident and assertive.

Enthusiastic, approachable and adaptable.

Ability to provide emotional and social support whilst promoting dignity and respect

Commitment to providing a high standard of care

The Royal Marsden values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

 As a Disability Confident Employer, we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. We advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment. Please ensure your information is accurate to avoid errors with processing your application

Flu Vaccination – What We Expect of our Staff

At The Royal Marsden we have an immune compromised patient population who we must protect as much as we can against the flu virus. Each year, seasonal flu affects thousands of people in the UK. Occurring mainly in winter, it is an infectious respiratory disease capable of producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a common cold, through to very severe or even fatal disease.

The wellbeing of our staff and patients is of the upmost importance to us, and it is the expectation of The Royal Marsden that all patient-facing staff have an annual flu vaccination, provided free of charge by the Trust.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.