Specialist Cancer Pharmacist
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Job summary
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 7 Oncology Pharmacist to join a forward-thinking cancer pharmacy team at Oxford. You will provide high-quality pharmaceutical care for adult cancer patients in wards and clinics, including SACT screening and education.
The role offers opportunities in early and late-phase clinical trials, joint MDT work, and potential to develop research interests towards a PhD, with a commitment to delivering compassionate excellence.
Qualifications
- Qualified to a degree level (4-year MPharm or equivalent) and Pharmacist registration with GPhC.
- Diploma / MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience.
- Membership of British Oncology Pharmacy Association (BOPA) or other specialist interest group.
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).
- Accredited tutor for a postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma.
- Accredited non‑medical prescriber.
Responsibilities
- Provide ward-based clinical pharmacy service according to Trust standards.
- Screen and review SACT prescriptions and clinical trial treatments.
- Participate in MDT meetings and ward rounds.
- Non‑medical prescribing in oncology clinics and day unit.
- Tutor rotational pharmacists and clinical diploma students.
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Main area Oncology Pharmacy Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Weekend and late rotations) Job ref 321-SW-8147724-B7
Site Churchill Hospital Town Oxford Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rota Salary period Yearly Closing 29/10/2026 23:59
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
Many of our recruitment programmes useValue Based Interviewingto identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Are you looking to join a forward-thinking, dynamic cancer pharmacy team? At Oxford, you’ll be part of one of the largest specialist pharmacy services in the country, working alongside 2 Consultant Pharmacists, Highly Advanced and Advanced Cancer Pharmacists, and the very first Advanced Cancer Pharmacy Technicians in the UK.
This is a unique opportunity to collaborate with nationally and internationally recognised experts in cancer and palliative care. You’ll help deliver cutting-edge treatments, including ATMPs, CAR-T, HSCT, while also contributing to services at 1 of only 5 bone and soft tissue specialist centres in England.
Our pharmacist prescribers work closely with consultants and the wider MDT to review and prescribe SACTs, ensuring patients receive the highest standard of care.
At OUH, as a major clinical trials centre, we are actively involved in both early and late phase research. We believe every pharmacist role should be research-active, and support your pursuit of opportunities, including the chance to work towards a PhD.
We are happy to hear from B6 pharmacists who are soon to complete their clinical pharmacy diplomas or MSc degrees.
We are proud to provide comprehensive services for patients in Oxfordshire and beyond. With oncology, clinical haematology, BMT unit, palliative care services, private unit, and close links with Cancer Research UK, our centre offers an unrivalled environment for learning, collaboration, and making a real difference for patients.
Key roles include:
- Delivery of high-quality pharmaceutical care to adult cancer in-patients, day-case, and out-patients.
- Participation in pharmacy services to the Day Treatment Unit to optimise patients’ understanding towards medications and reduce medicines wastage.
- Clinically screening and checking of systemic anticancer treatments (SACTs), SACT clinical trial treatments and supportive medication prescriptions.
- Participating in multidisciplinary meeting and ward rounds
- Pharmacist led oral anti-cancer treatment education clinics
- Pharmacist non-medical prescribing in multidisciplinary clinics and day treatment unit
- Aseptic experience within Pharmacy’s Clinical Trials Aseptic Services Unit (CTASU)
- Participating in the day to day running of the CTASU and developing knowledge in quality control and quality assurance.
- Involvement in cancer early and late phase clinical trials
- Active participation in Thames Valley Cancer Alliance groups
The post holder will participate in the band 7 cancer pharmacist rotation which currently includes rotations through:
- Oncology Ward (OWLs)
- Clinical Haematology Ward (CHW)
- Oncology and Haematology SACT clinical screening
- Early phase/Late phase research & SACT clinical trials screening
- Brodey Chemotherapy Day Unit, Horton Hospital, Banbury
- Clinical Trials Aseptic Unit
- Palliative Care
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel .
- To provide a ward-based clinical pharmacy service according to Trust agreed standards including:
- Confirmation of the patient’s medication history
- Medicines reconciliation and clinical screening
- Advise on dosage, side-effects, cautions and monitoring required
- Advise on administration of medicines
- Appropriate and clear endorsing of prescriptions to ensure safe practice
- Monitor the effect and appropriateness of medication
- Education of patients on their medication
- Involvement in discharge planning and provision of discharge medication
- To provide clinical pharmacy cover to other ward areas within the team on a reciprocal basis.
- To ensure medicines are used appropriately, safely and cost-effectively in accordance with Trust policies, standard operating procedures and medicines legislation.
- To monitor medicine use within the ward area. This includes recording of significant clinical interventions and risk management including:
- Participation in investigating clinical incidents
- Recording significant clinical incidents/near misses
- Ensuring compliance with medicines legislation and local policies
- To use available information to influence prescribers and ensure the most cost-effective choice of therapy.
- To participate in ward rounds, clinical meetings or out-patient clinics as appropriate in order to provide pharmaceutical advice to prescribers and other healthcare professionals.
- To liaise with external agencies to ensure safe, timely and appropriate supply to patients e.g. Baxter, Homecare companies etc, where appropriate.
- To participate in ward-based clinical audits and the development and implementation of treatment protocols and guidelines for use of medicines within the clinical area.
- To tutor and supervise rotational pharmacists undertaking the clinical diploma, following formal accreditation as a tutor by Cardiff University, or other university and to tutor other pharmacists and pre-registration students in the clinical area.
- To act as a role model and mentor for clinical pharmacy.
- To develop personal practice research in accordance with the Trust and pharmacy strategy.
- To contribute to local, national and international specialist interest groups and conferences/meetings.
- To become a non‑medical prescriber as appropriate.
- To work as a non‑medical prescriber in the oncology & haematology directorate to prescribe medications safely and effectively in line with their scope of practice for patients requiring therapeutic medications and treatments, utilising local or organisational guidelines, national guidelines, and adhering to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and GPhC Prescribing Standards after the approval from the Trust’s respective Non‑Medical Prescribing Lead.
- To provide teaching for the pharmacy and directorate teams as required.
- To act as knowledge base/resource for the specialist area and to keep up to date with current trends and research in the specialist area.
- Together with the rest of the members of the clinical pharmacy team to support the strategic developments of the service e.g. electronic prescribing, improved discharge processes, accredited technician checking etc.
- To actively contribute to the planning and efficient co‑ordination of clinical pharmacy initiatives including discharge planning, prescribing protocols, pharmacists on consultant ward rounds etc.
- To contribute to and implement the clinical governance plans of the clinical area and the pharmacy clinical governance plans.
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- Qualified to a degree level (4-year MPharm or equivalent) and Pharmacist registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Diploma / MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience
- Membership of British Oncology Pharmacy Association (BOPA) or other specialist interest group
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Accredited tutor for a postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma
- Accredited non‑medical prescriber
- Quality improvement, service evaluation or audit
- Communicating complex information via multiple methods to a variety of receipients
- Experience of working as a clinical pharmacist
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of teaching and tutoring
- Experience of clinically screening SACT prescriptions with BOPA Compassly accreditations.
- Experience of preparing budgetary reports for clinical areas
- Involvement in a pharmacist led outpatient clinic
- Experience of practice research
- Involvement in developing a service
- Experience of developing drug protocols /contributing to formulary development
- Problem identification and solving skills
- Well organised
- Good Time Management
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to prioritise and manage time effectively
- Good interpersonal skills
- Sensitivity and tolerance
- Enthusiastic and self‑motivated
- Must demonstrate flexibility in working practices
- Must be assertive
- Capable of working under pressure
- Must show commitment
- Able to make decisions
- Ability to travel to all sites including the use of public transport
- Demonstrable awareness of current cancer issues, such as administration of intrathecal SACT and the Manual of Cancer Quality Measures
- Demonstrable awareness of financial pressures
- Publication / conference presentations
- Excellent Clinical Prioritisation
- Evidence of balancing conflicting priorities
- Computer literate with experience of working with the Microsoft Office package
- Advanced keyboard skills
- Experience using electronic prescribing systems
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Name Ana Rita Gomes Job title Advanced Cancer Pharmacist Telephone number 01865 226677 Additional information
For further details please contact Ana Rita Gomes via email anarita.gomes@ouh.nhs.uk
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