Senior Pharmacist-Haematology & Oncology - Digital

Job overview

Do you want to make a real difference to patient care and are you looking for your next exciting challenge? Join Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust as a Haematology/Oncology Digital Pharmacist and become part of an innovative team at the forefront of digital transformation in cancer services.

This is a unique opportunity to combine your specialist clinical pharmacy expertise with cutting-edge digital healthcare systems to improve the safety, quality, and effectiveness of chemotherapy prescribing, dispensing, and administration for children receiving complex cancer treatments.

In this dynamic and rewarding role, you will work closely with multidisciplinary teams, digital specialists, and clinical leaders to develop and optimise electronic prescribing pathways, enhance medicines safety, and support service improvements across haematology and oncology services.

You will play a key role in shaping safer, smarter, and more integrated digital medicines systems that directly improve patient outcomes and experience.

If you are passionate about innovation, patient safety, and advancing digital healthcare within specialist pharmacy services, this is your opportunity to contribute to nationally recognised NHS priorities while developing your leadership, clinical, and digital expertise within a forward-thinking organisation.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting safe electronic prescribing and medicines optimisation for haematology and oncology patients
• Ensuring chemotherapy prescribing, dispensing, and administration processes comply with national safety standards and local governance requirements
• Developing and maintaining digital chemotherapy pathways and electronic treatment protocols
• Working closely with multidisciplinary teams including pharmacists, clinicians, nursing staff, digital teams, and informatics specialists
• Supporting implementation and optimisation of electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) systems
• Contributing to service improvement, audit, governance, and medication safety initiatives
• Supporting national NHS strategies focused on digital transformation, interoperability, and safer cancer care pathways
• Providing specialist pharmaceutical advice for paediatric and oncology-haematology services
• Delivering training and support to staff using digital prescribing systems

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.