# Senior Pharmacist-Haematology & Oncology - Digital > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-pharmacist-haematology-and-oncology-digital/8919fa72-20b5-4786-836f-5152e8036d33 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-pharmacist-haematology-and-oncology-digital/8919fa72-20b5-4786-836f-5152e8036d33.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Birmingham - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Pharmacist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 pa pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, Compressed hours, 37.5 hours per week (Oncall duties, weekend working and BH) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-15T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-01T15:28:30.862Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Birmingham/Birmingham_Womens_Childrens_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8003035 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8003035?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.bwc.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Job Details 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. ## Job Description 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 ## 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. ## Person Specification ### Qualifications **Essential** - MPharm or equivalent degree in pharmacy - Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council - Additional post-registration Postgraduate Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or Independent Prescriber Qualification (masters level) **Desirable** - Registration with Royal Pharmaceutical Society ### Other Requirements **Desirable** - Experience of working in pharmacy Clinical trials unit - Recent experience of working in an aseptic or manufacturing environment compounding cytotoxic chemotherapy and CIVAS ### Analytical & Judgement Skills **Essential** - Ability to analyse highly complex data relating to medication use and present in a way that actions and follow-up can be identified - Problem solving skills and the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands - Ability to analyse highly complex facts and situations and develop a range of options - Able to make decisions on difficult issues where there may be number of courses of action - Ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise ### Knowledge & Nature of Experience **Essential** - Previous experience in hospital pharmacy (Post-Registration) - Previous experience contributing to the management of a digital clinical system (PostRegistration) - Experience of developing and implementing service changes - Experience of complex audit and implementation of change. - Have a sound knowledge of legislation, national standards and good practice around medication supply, storage and prescribing/use in relation to digital systems. - Understand the background and aims of current healthcare and digital policy **Desirable** - Experience in providing pharmacy services/pharmacist review to paediatrics - Experience in providing specialist pharmacist review of people with cancer - Experience of handling chemotherapy in any setting - Experience of managing a clinical pharmacy service to a specialty on a day-to-day basis (e.g. whilst covering a more senior colleague) - Experience of writing policies and procedures. - Experience of developing business cases. ### Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes **Essential** - Strong interpersonal communication skills. Able to collaborate and negotiate successfully with internal and external staff groups at all levels - Strong writing skills with evidence of report and policy writing. - Effective organisational and time management skills. Ability to prioritise a complex workload and work accurately under pressure adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances - An ability to identify improvement and foster change in an ever-growing fast-paced environment - Demonstrate alignment with the values and beliefs of the Trust - Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of equality and inclusion in the delivery of this role - Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required - Excellent team leadership skills and a good team player. - Experience of managing and motivating a team. ### Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledgeable in clinical pharmacy - Knowledgeable in commonly used software such as Excel and Word - Experience in the use and maintenance of SACT e-prescribing system **Desirable** - Knowledgeable in clinical and technical aspects of cytotoxic chemotherapy provision - Awareness of National initiatives with regards to development of chemotherapy services particularly SACT (systemic anti-cancer therapy) reporting ## Documents - [senior pharmacist-haematology & oncology - digital (pdf, 439.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10288938) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.