Chemo Co-ordinator

Are you looking for a career where you can really make a difference and at the same time learn valuable new skills? Our administrative staff provide essential support to the clinical teams striving to ensure the patients’ experience is what we would expect for our own family and friends. Because we understand and value the contribution of administrative staff in our teams we invest in training and development to make sure our staff are equipped with the right skills and knowledge.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our administrative team within our Cancer Pharmacy Team. This pivotal role is key to ensuring that the correct chemotherapy drugs are available in time for the patient to receive chemotherapy treatment. You will need to possess good communication and interpersonal skills as an important element to this role is the liaison between pharmacists, clinicians and the drug suppliers. This busy role will require you to be highly organised, have attention to detail and possess the ability to work individually as well as part of a larger team. If you would like to make a positive contribution to a patient’s care experience, then we would like to hear from you.

As a member of the Pharmacy team you will provide comprehensive administrative support using our software packages, EPR and ARIA, to ensure that our cancer patients are able to receive their chemotherapy on time.

You will liaise between clinicians and pharmacists ensuring that chemotherapy prescriptions have been updated and signed off in a timely manner. You will also be involved in the co-ordination and management of oral education clinics that enable the patients to receive information about their cancer treatment.

You will participate in cover arrangements of any member of the team, for training, annual leave or sick leave, as required.

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Chemotherapy Delivery
1. Use electronic software packages (eg ARIA) to co-ordinate the prescribing of chemotherapy by Doctors, its screening by pharmacists and receipt of prescriptions by the relevant pharmacy departments and being responsible for updating all relevant documentation.
2. Be proactive in liaising with doctors and pharmacists to ensure that all chemotherapy is prescribed and screened, ideally 48 hours in advance.
3. Work with pharmacy and DTU staff to minimise wastage.
4. Liaise daily with nursing staff, providing a status report detailing the stage at which patients’ chemotherapy prescriptions have reached in the process.

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