Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- 8b
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (Maternity cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (including weekend and late duty work)
- Job ref
- 337-NP-9132DG
- Employer
- London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northwick Park Hospital
- Town
- Harrow
- Salary
- £70,396 - £80,837 per annum Inclusive of High Cost Area Supplement pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Pharmacist Cancer Services
8b
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Find out more about our Trust and why you should join us#WeAreLNWH
Find out more about Our HEART values
Find out more about our Trust Staff Benefits
Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy
We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.
Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.
- H onesty
- E quity
- A ccountability
- R espect
- T eamwork
These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.
LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The post of Senior Specialist Pharmacist for Cancer and Haematology is a vital role in the safe, effective, and evidence-based use of medicines in cancer and haematology. The post holder also is an integral part of the multidisciplinary cancer and haematology team, supporting patients throughout their cancer treatment journey. The post holder works closely with haematology and cancer clinicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals to provide clinical chemotherapy governance in the Trust.
Main duties of the job
- Be the nominated lead pharmacist for the Trust’s Clinical Chemotherapy Services to provide professional leadership, development, supervision and management of Pharmacy Clinical Chemotherapy, Haematology & Cancer Services
- Participate in the provision of a safe and effective specialist clinical pharmacy service to designated clinical areas in particular specialist haematology and cancer chemotherapy services for adults and paediatric.
- Lead the education and training of pharmacy and other healthcare professionals in all aspects of chemotherapy
- Liaise with all relevant local networks and national working groups particularly London wide network with respect to local and national audits and collaborative work
- Be the Lead Trainer for Intrathecal Chemotherapy
- Be a key member of the senior pharmacy management team supporting the Medicines Management Strategy and the management of the pharmacy department
- To support the trust to comply with relevant regulations, local and national policies and guidelines
Working for our organisation
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification
Person specification
Education Qualification
Essential criteria
- Comply with minimum qualification and professional registration
- Relevant Postgraduate qualification
Desirable criteria
- Registered Independent prescriber
- Advanced management courses
Knowl;edge and experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive evidence of specialist knowledge on cancer chemotherapy, haematology.
- Extensive experience in cancer chemotherapy and haematology.
- Provide advanced to mastery competency level using relevant professional framework
- Demonstrate working knowledge of NHS organisation, aseptic services and service and staff management
Desirable criteria
- Extensive experience in management of electronic prescribing
- Demonstrate financial management particularly on cancer drugs
- Experience in conducting external inspection
- Evidence in participation or conducting clinical trial research and development
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable good understanding on leadership and management skills
- Evidence in excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to liaise, pursue and influence the multi-disciplinary team and senior managers and other external stakeholders
- Evidence of ability to identify and manage risks particularly clinical and service risks
- Demonstrate ability to actively seeks to improve services to enhance quality of patient care
Desirable criteria
- Excellent in the use spreadsheets to capture, manipulate and analyse data, searches for evidence-based practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kenny Wong
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02088692204
- Additional information
You can also contact the current post holder Dilpreet Matharu [email protected].
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