# Specialist Rotational Pharmacist- Cancer Services > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-rotational-pharmacist-cancer-services/bceeef91-71f2-40ea-83a1-5b885f28080b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-rotational-pharmacist-cancer-services/bceeef91-71f2-40ea-83a1-5b885f28080b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Pharmacist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £56,276 - £63,176 pa inclusive - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2025-08-29T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2025-08-15T12:40:51.826Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v7422336 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7422336?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and capable pharmacist to join the Cancer and Aseptics Pharmacy Team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHNT). ICHNT is the cancer centre for North West London, and manages both local and nationally referred patients, with a variety of different and complex oncology and haematology cancer pathologies. ICHNT offers a fully multi-disciplinary approach and the successful applicant will work closely with our extended cancer teams. The post holder will have the opportunity to undertake rotations in each of the three key areas within Cancer Services: Aseptics, Haematology, and Oncology. Each of the three rotations is approximately nine months in duration, allowing the post holder to develop specialist skills each time they rotate, as well as gaining in-depth experience, thus being fully integrated into the delivery of cancer services. They will be involved in the management of patients with oncology and haematology diagnoses, who are on a variety of systemic anti-cancer therapies (SACT), including CAR-T and BMT. This is in addition to managing disease complications, therapeutic drug based complications and working with our palliative care team to give patients the best care. You will need to work well as part of a team and possess excellent communication skills.  You will need to have high attention to detail to be able to work under pressure ### Main duties of the job - Supporting the Senior Lead/ Lead Pharmacists for each rotationdelivering a clinical ward pharmacy service - Providing expert support to clinicians and other healthcare professionals - Final checking and releasing of aseptically manufactured SACT - Verification of SACT prescriptions - Contributing to the outpatient hub and clinics - Participating in audit projects - Supporting and developing trainee pharmacists, junior pharmacists and medicines management pharmacy technicians. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ## Job Details An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and capable pharmacist to join the Cancer and Aseptics Pharmacy Team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHNT). ICHNT is the cancer centre for North West London, and manages both local and nationally referred patients, with a variety of different and complex oncology and haematology cancer pathologies. ICHNT offers a fully multi-disciplinary approach and the successful applicant will work closely with our extended cancer teams. The post holder will have the opportunity to undertake rotations in each of the three key areas within Cancer Services: Aseptics, Haematology, and Oncology. Each of the three rotations is approximately nine months in duration, allowing the post holder to develop specialist skills each time they rotate, as well as gaining in-depth experience, thus being fully integrated into the delivery of cancer services. They will be involved in the management of patients with oncology and haematology diagnoses, who are on a variety of systemic anti-cancer therapies (SACT), including CAR-T and BMT. This is in addition to managing disease complications, therapeutic drug based complications and working with our palliative care team to give patients the best care. You will need to work well as part of a team and possess excellent communication skills.  You will need to have high attention to detail to be able to work under pressure ## Responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Good ability to organise and prioritise work - Good clinical practice knowledge including the ability to analyse patient specific information to advise on management of medicines - Ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management - A good understanding of national and local priorities **Desirable** - Experience of using electronic prescribing systems - Good understanding of financial aspects of PbR excluded medicines / Blueteq - Able to obtain, interpret, analyse & report on drug expenditure - Good understanding of how Homecare companies deliver services ### Education **Essential** - Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent - Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council - Certificate in Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent relevant postgraduate experience & studying for completion of full Diploma. - Undertakes continuing professional development (CPD) and maintains a CPD portfolio **Desirable** - Completed full Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent Post Graduate Qualification - Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain - BOPA SACT verification passport (or equivalent) - GMP training ### Experience **Essential** - Appropriate post-registration training and experience in hospital Pharmacy - this must include a solid grounding in all aspects of hospital pharmacy practice (medicines information, aseptic services, ward services and dispensing) - Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options for patients - Practical Clinical experience covering a range of specialities including medicine & surgery with a broad knowledge of therapeutics - Demonstrable use of clinical audit to improve practice **Desirable** - Experience with verifying, and/or checking, and/or releasing of SACT - Experience of drug expenditure reporting - Experience of managing funding applications for PbR excluded drugs - Experience in delivering training and education ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 608.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=9666059) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) - [functional requirements (pdf, 472.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=9666058) ## 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.