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An exciting opportunity has presented itself for a pharmacist with both clinical cancer experience and a strong interest in clinical trials to join our senior cancer pharmacy team. This post is a permanent position working within the Clinical Research Facility (CRF) and the Cancer Clinical Trials Unit (CCTU) at UCLH. You will work closely with the Lead Clinical Pharmacist to manage a fast paced, growing service.
As a world-leading research facility, you will collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver clinical trials, including early phase, and streamline the service.
As a registered pharmacist, you will provide a person-centred approach to care and manage specialist pharmacy services to patients within the CRF & CCTU. You will collaborate with the Lead Clinical Pharmacist to improve the pharmacy service for these patients and educate pharmacy and multidisciplinary staff on these innovative treatments.
The post holder will lead, develop and undertake clinical and operational audit and research in the CRF & CCTU.
The UCLH Cancer Pharmacy Team is a large team across oncology, haematology and transplantation and works well together. Our ideal candidate will: • help us develop and deliver our vision for a person-centred clinical pharmacy service • drive directorate and departmental clinical governance issues, clinical audit, practice research, service improvement projects and more • be keen to further their career within cancer services.
Main duties of the job
The main day to day responsibilities would include: • To manage the day-to-day delivery of clinical pharmacy services to the CRF & for CCTU trials and streamline the clinical pharmacy pathway • To lead and support the opening and management of cancer clinical trials • To lead and manage amendments for cancer clinical trials • To provide highly specialised and complex evidence-based clinical advice and information to the multidisciplinary team on the care and treatment of cancer clinical patients • To deliver and promote high quality, cost effective, patient focused pharmaceutical care • To manage cancer pharmacists delivering clinical pharmacy services to the CRF • To support the training and development of cancer pharmacists in the field of cancer trials
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
The cancer pharmacy team consists of specialist cancer pharmacists and technicians that work for the Cancer Division and is fully integrated within the Division to provide clinical pharmacy services to patients. The team also collaborates closely with the UCLH Pharmacy Department to ensure pharmacy standards are maintained.
At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff – To find out more, visit: Flexible working.
To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum five years post-registration.
- Minimum of three years’ experience as a clinical pharmacist in a cancer specialty.
- Experience of verifying prescriptions for systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT).
- Actively seeks to improve the ward and clinical services provided to enhance quality of care to cancer patients.
Desirable
- Experience as a clinical pharmacist in clinical trials.
- Experience in reviewing and setting up cancer clinical trials including validation of electronic protocols.
- Experience of managing change and driving service improvements.
- Evidence of evaluating own and pharmacy staff’s work to drive and deliver service improvements.
- Participation in multidisciplinary health services research.
- Evidence of publishing in a peer reviewed journal.
Communication
Essential
- Demonstrates high level clinical knowledge, reasoning, and judgment, manages difficult and ambiguous problems.
- Able to communicate complex, contentious, and sensitive information effectively when using clear written and spoken English.
- Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels both within and beyond pharmacy and the trust.
Desirable
- Experience at presenting complex information to senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrates ability to influence practice within pharmacy and at a divisional level.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Effective time management and demonstrates the ability to meet deadlines.
- Excellent ability to prioritise complex workload and work accurately under pressure.
- IT literate, including use of spreadsheets to capture and manipulate data, search for evidence-based practice, presenting complex information.
Desirable
- Able to identify risks, and develop and manage risk management procedures.
- Demonstrates integration of research evidence into practice.
Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential
- Master degree in Pharmacy, or equivalent.
- Pharmacist Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent experience and expertise.
- Evidence of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training.
Desirable
- Independent prescriber, or willingness to undertake an independent prescribing qualification.
- Advanced practitioner as defined by the Faculty of Cancer Pharmacy Advanced and Consultant Level Framework (ACLF).
- Evidence of formal management training.
Personal and People Development
Essential
- Commitment to continually update skills, knowledge, and expertise; and maintain a portfolio of practice.
- Experience of identifying training needs and delivering education and training programmes for clinical staff groups.
- Ability to delegate authority appropriately.
Desirable
- Experience of managing staff including objective setting, performance monitoring, recruitment and selection, and managing poor performance.
- Evidence of evaluating own and pharmacy staff’s work to drive and deliver improvements in service quality.
- Ability to motivate team members in the achievement of common goals.
Ensure the risk of infection to self, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors is minimised by:
Essential
- Being familiar with, and adhering to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control.
- Completing all required training and education (both via e-learning and face to face) on infection prevention and control.
- Including infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development and included in your annual appraisal.
- Taking personal responsibility so far as is reasonably practicable, in helping ensure that effective prevention and control of health care associated infections is embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently.
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This advert is for Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Cancer Clinical Trials with University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £66,274 - £73,496 Per annum inclusive of HCAS. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 02 Jul 2026.
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