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Clinical Trials Pharmacist

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
City of London
3 days ago
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Overview

The trials team is expanding, and there is an opportunity for a passionate, motivated, and dynamic pharmacist to join the Pharmacy Clinical Trials team at The Royal Marsden (RMH) NHS Foundation Trust. The RMH is a world-leading cancer centre with sites in Chelsea and Sutton, plus a Medical Day Care Unit at Kingston Hospital. This role focuses on delivering high-quality care to patients and staff within a multidisciplinary team alongside pharmacists, technicians, and assistants.

Our team supports a research strategy of taking personalized cancer treatment to the next level, with approximately 380 active IMP studies and increasingly complex new clinical trials across all specialties, including gene therapies and cellular therapies. RMH, in association with The ICR, has a global reputation for patient care, research, and education, and is one of Europe\'s largest comprehensive cancer centres. The hospital has recently introduced the EPIC digital health record system to support the pharmacy teams and move toward a paperless environment.

Responsibilities
  • 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.
  • Assist the Clinical Trials Team with day-to-day clinical, dispensing, ward and research day unit queries.
  • Provide clinical trials advice while covering the research clinics and attending MDT meetings.
  • 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.
  • Support the clinical trial team with clinical trial setup of new studies and amendments for ongoing studies, and maintain current trial activity.
  • Contribute to provision of the pharmacy clinical trials service to individual clinical units, R&D and the Trust.
Qualifications and Experience
  • Prior clinical trials experience; oncology or haemato-oncology knowledge is an advantage.
  • Ability to work alongside a multidisciplinary team to deliver outstanding patient care.
Benefits and Additional Information

We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment with a wide range of staff benefits and learning and development opportunities. A variety of other staff benefits include employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, and car schemes.

For further details or informal visits, contact: Name: Chris Tong; Job title: Lead Pharmacist Clinical Research and Development; Email: .

Specialist Pharmacist - Clinical Trial: Chris TONG: ext 1938.
Ilves Sanna: ext 4799.

To meet the Clinical Trial team and learn more about their routine, please visit the Clinical trials and aseptic team at The Royal Marsden (vimeo.com).


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