Job summary
- Main area
- Highly Advanced Pharmacist - Oncology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Weekend and late rotations)
- Job ref
- 321-SW-7334626-8b-PUB
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Churchill Hospital
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Advanced Cancer Pharmacist
NHS AfC: Band 8b
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 this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to 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
Job overview
A unique and exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly motivated, proactive and experienced cancer pharmacist to apply for the post of Highly Advanced Pharmacist – Lead for Oncology and Deputy Team Manager, as part of the Oxford Cancer Pharmacy Team at the Oxford Cancer & Haematology Centre.
The highly advanced oncology pharmacist will work as a highly advanced practitioner and will be able to develop their skills to become a future Consultant Pharmacist in line with the RPS Advanced Pharmacy Framework and the NHS Consultant Pharmacist Guidance. The post holder will be expected to work towards advanced level 2 and mastery within the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership & management, education & research, with core capabilities in a specific area of clinical competence. The successful candidate will have excellent leadership, communication, organisational and interpersonal skills, as well as innovative ideas on improving service delivery and patient care. This post promises to bring opportunities and challenges working within the cancer pharmacy team at the Oxford Cancer & Haematology Centre, giving the successful candidate the chance to develop and extend their clinical, leadership and managerial skills at a highly advanced level.
We will provide you with a comprehensive induction covering all aspects of the work, support from senior pharmacy staff and an environment to develop further.
Main duties of the job
To support and deputise for the Consultant Cancer Pharmacist and manage, strategically lead and co-ordinate the cancer pharmacy team in the provision of a safe, effective and efficient clinical pharmacy service to the Oncology & Haematology Directorate.
To be an expert in Oncology.
To ensure the safe and effective use of medicines within Oncology through provision of medicine related aspects of patient care, promoting economy and improvements in quality, safety and cost effectiveness, and medicines optimisation.
To ensure all members of the Cancer Pharmacy Team are trained and competent for their role in Oncology through training and appraisal.
To accept case referrals for medicines optimisation in Oncology.
To act as a mentor and role model as an expert clinical pharmacist, manager and leader.
To use innovation to create new models for service delivery to support effective patient outcomes, safety and experience aligned with relevant national agenda; improve cost effectiveness and in particular support the QIPP agenda.
To lead and deliver education and training in Oncology for pharmacy and other healthcare professionals across the health economy.
To lead, undertake, supervise and publish research in relevant Oncology journals.
To be a lead and role model in the field of Oncology locally, regionally and nationally.
The role is a training Consultant Cancer Pharmacist post in line with the NHS Consultant Pharmacist Guidance 2020.
Working for our organisation
The Oxford Cancer and Haematology Centre is a purpose-built tertiary referral and regional cancer centre on the Churchill site, with a satellite unit at the Horton Hospital, and one of the Cancer Centres within the Thames Valley Cancer Alliance. The Cancer & Haematology services include oncology, haematology, bone marrow transplant, ambulatory care unit, day treatment units and triage. The pharmacy department provides services across the three sites of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Churchill, John Radcliffe, Horton).
The cancer pharmacy team is led by a Consultant Cancer Pharmacist and the team is fully integrated in the multidisciplinary team. The cancer pharmacy team service is comprised of both NHS and research services. The team provides a range of innovative services, including a clinical pharmacy service to the cancer day treatment units, non-medical prescribing as part of multidisciplinary clinics, and a pharmacy led oral education clinic. The cancer pharmacists have opportunities for secondments into research and actively present their work at conferences and via publications. The team has recently been reconfigured to enable an improved skill mix of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy assistants and administration support to provide high quality cancer pharmacy services to the Oxford Cancer & Haematology Centre.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key roles include:
1. Clinical & Expert Practice
2. Clinical Service Organisation and Deputy Management
3. Research, Evaluation and Service Development
4. Education, Mentoring and overview of practice
5. Professional Leadership
Please see full job description attached
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BPharm / MPharm Qualified as a NMP or working towards (desired)
- Member of GPhC
- Member of RPS Member of relevant Professional Groups (e.g. UKCPA, BOPA)
- Accredited at Advanced level 2* or Fellowship of RPS faculty (or within 2 years of taking up post)
- Member of relevant Professional Groups (e.g. UKCPA, BOPA)
Skills
Essential criteria
- Shapes direction of professional group (e.g. Committee Member, Member of Expert Practice development group)
- Post Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma/MSc qualification or equivalent experience
- Experience of managing a team
- Broad clinical or directorate pharmacy provision in a number of different clinical areas
- Appropriate and current clinical experience in relevant specialist area
- Proven experience of working at a strategic level with senior clinicians and managers and experience of working in an integrated directorate team
- Proven budget management or monitoring ability and demonstrable success in achieving savings
- Provision of drug usage and expenditure reports and use of financial reports to influence business cases and clinical practice
- Recognition as an expert nationally through publications / presentations or officer in a national group
- Proven medicines related policy development and implementation
- Proven experience of managing and developing a service within limited resources
- Negotiating and influencing skills
- Problem identification, prioritisation and solving
- Demonstrable experience of change management at a pharmacy level
- Experience as a tutor for postgraduate clinical diploma
- Proven time management skills and an ability to work under pressure
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Visionary and ability to motivate others
- Proven facilitative leadership skills
- Enthusiasm and self motivation
- Assertiveness
- Professional and personal integrity
- Recognised equitable approach
- Understanding of NHS finances
Desirable criteria
- Formal management qualification
- Proven experience of working at a strategic level across the wider health community
- Demonstrable experience of change management at an Organisation or national Level
- Formal teaching / training/ mentoring training
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
- Nicola Stoner
- Job title
- Consultant Cancer Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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