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Specialist Pharmacist Cancer Services

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
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Salary
£51,883 - £58,544 Per Annum pro rata Inclusive of High Cost Area Supplement
Profession
Pharmacist
Grade
Band 7
Deadline
04 Jun 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
21 May 2025

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has presented for a pharmacist to join our cancer pharmacy team. We are looking to recruit to the post of Specialist Pharmacist Cancer Services who will play a pivotal role in managing the pharmacy service provided to cancer patients.

The pharmacy cancer team is well integrated into the cancer directorate and provides a high-quality and progressive pharmacy service to cancer patients. You will have opportunities to  develop your general and specialist skills in providing multi-disciplinary Cancer Services.

Main duties of the job

The main day to day responsibilities would include:

  • manage the day-to-day delivery of, and support the development of, clinical pharmacy services to cancer patients
  • provide safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of medicines to cancer patients
  • work closely with the multi-disciplinary team and undertake an active role in the safe provision of medicines to cancer patients

To maintain and further develop the pharmacy service to cancer patients, we are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated pharmacist to join our lively, progressive and dynamic pharmacy team. Our ideal candidate will be:

  • interested in helping us develop and deliver our vision for a patient-focussed clinical pharmacy service
  • able to drive directorate and departmental clinical governance issues, clinical audit, practice research, service improvement projects and more
  • keen to further their career within cancer services

The post will provide comprehensive cancer clinical and technical pharmacy experience through a competency based training. As a member of a multi-disciplinary team, you will be working closely with the Haematologists, Oncologists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, and Chemotherapy Nurses, in a broad range of clinical haematology and oncology specialties and settings including inpatient wards, day-care and outpatient clinics.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.