# Specialist Clinical Trials Pharmacist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Hillingdon Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Pharmacist
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £63,665 - £70,887 per annum pro rata incl HCAA
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 31 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-06T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-24T10:41:06.595Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Uxbridge/The_Hillingdon_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8209265
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8209265?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.thh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Senior Pharmacist Clinical Trials (Band 8a) **31 hours/week (0.83 WTE) including weekend and on call duties, with an expected Monday to Friday on site working pattern

Are you a skilled and experienced Clinical Trials Pharmacist with a background in cancer services? Are you ready to lead change and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team? Do you have the ambition to drive service improvements and develop a high-quality clinical trials pharmacy service?

An exciting opportunity has arisen at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for a highly skilled, experienced, and enthusiastic specialist pharmacist to join our Clinical Trials Pharmacy team. This role offers a unique chance to make a meaningful impact by combining advanced clinical trials and haemato-oncology expertise with leadership and service development.

We are seeking an individual with strong clinical knowledge, exceptional interpersonal skills, and a passion for excellence. In this challenging but rewarding role, you will work as part of the research delivery team to ensure compliance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP), manage pharmaceutical aspects of trials, evaluate cost-effectiveness, and support the safe and efficient delivery of investigational medicines.

An informal visit by interested candidates is encouraged.

### Main duties of the job

Main duties of the role include:

Maintaining and supporting the Clinical Trials service in accordance with UK Clinical Trial Regulations, the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulation 2004 (EU Clinical Trial Directive) and subsequent updates, along with ICH GCP guidelines and departmental procedures, ensuring a high-quality service to patients and staff

Leading and managing all aspects of trial medicines management within the Dispensary, Day Units, and Wards, ensuring the supply of Investigational Medicinal Products (IMPs) adheres to current legislation and best practice guidelines, safeguarding patients, staff, and the Trust

Providing highly specialised pharmaceutical and clinical advice for all trial medicines to clinicians, investigators, and research staff across all specialisms.

Working closely with the research team to provide highly specialist advice on prescribing and managing adverse events of IMPs in line with the clinical trial protocol.

Leading the pharmacy clinical trials team in education, training, and clinical governance for new and active clinical trials.

Providing a framework for the safe, efficient, and cost-effective use of medicine resources within the Clinical Trials service through education and training, procedures, policies, guidelines, and medicines usage information.

Leading on pharmacy aspects related to the maintenance of cancer and non-cancer clinical trials on the designated EPMA systems.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### shortlisting

**Essential**

- MPharm or equivalent
- GPhC registration
- Post Registration MSc/Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
- Good Clinical Practice Training and knowledge
- Significant experience post-registration hospital pharmacy experience
- Clinical Trials experience
- Oncology or Haemato-Oncology Pharmacy experience
- Excellent understanding of hospital pharmacy practice.
- Understanding of developments in Pharmacy practice and service delivery within the NHS

**Desirable**

- Non-medical prescriber

## Documents

- [culture & values - cares behaviours (pdf, 155.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1043)
- [b8a specialist clinical trials pharmacist jd+ps+adv 31hrs (pdf, 640.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10516506)

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