Lead Pharmacist for Cancer and Palliative Care

We are looking for a motivated and patient-centred pharmacist to join our Cancer and Palliative Care pharmacy team at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. This role offers the opportunity to provide specialist clinical care while supporting the day-to-day leadership and development of the service., Key duties include delivering a safe, effective and responsive clinical pharmacy service to patients across cancer and palliative care wards, day units and clinics. Working closely with the multidisciplinary team, you will provide specialist advice on medicines, support the clinical verification of chemotherapy prescriptions and contribute to treatment protocols and prescribing guidelines. You will also help ensure continuity of medicines-related care between hospital and community services.

You will support the supervision and development of rotational pharmacists and other pharmacy staff, contribute to education and training, and help drive improvements in medicines safety and service quality. The role also includes supporting audit, clinical governance and the cost-effective use of medicines.

You will be a GPhC-registered pharmacist with a postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent, substantial hospital clinical pharmacy experience and demonstrable experience in cancer and/or palliative care. You will have the BOPA Passport at 2b/2c haematology and 2b/2c oncology. Strong clinical judgement, effective communication skills and experience of supervising and developing others are essential, alongside the ability to work independently and collaboratively.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley.

With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Marys Hospital in Sidcup.

The Trust has 7,500 staff and we have recently invested in our workforce to grow our establishment across a number of key services. In 2020 we won a London NHS Parliamentary Award in recognition of a wide range of initiatives to make the organisation a great place to work. We are accredited as a flexible working employer offering a number of flexible working options for staff. We are also accredited as a London Living Wage employer for our substantive, bank and contractors