Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Pharmacy 520300
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: Secondment may be considered
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 317-2025-30-029
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- 317 Trustwide
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 24/09/2025
Employer heading
Lead Clinical Trials Pharmacist
Band 8a
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest and leading organisations in the country for clinical trial activity involving medicinal products. Pharmacy has a key role in ensuring that clinical trial medications are handled safely and in line with UK legislation.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and well-motivated Pharmacist to join the Clinical Trials Pharmacy team. This post will be an integrated post working within the cancer clinical team and the clinical trials team for paediatric cancer services. With the increase in advanced therapies within clinical trials and cancer services, this post will provide support and advice to both teams and enable smooth transition for these medicines from clinical trials into standard patient care.
Secondment may be considered.
Part time hours may be considered.
- Interview Date Wednesday 24 September 2025
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
You will work with the Clinical Trials Team and support Paediatric Cancer Services to ensure compliance with UK legislative practices and Trust/departmental SOPs relating to clinical trials. You will be expected to contribute to audit of services both clinical and clinical trials related and act on the outcomes of these audits to change practice to improve services where appropriate. You will contribute to promoting cost-effective prescribing strategies and financially monitor drug usage within a specified area providing reports on this when necessary.
You will be expected to provide highly specialist advice and recommendations to other healthcare staff via telephone, e-mail and face-to-face.
As well as in-house training within the Pharmacy Clinical Trials unit, you will be required to attend an initial Good Clinical Practice (GCP) course and subsequent refreshers. You will be based in the Royal Victoria Infirmary Clinical Trials office. However, you may be required to work at one of the other Pharmacy Clinical Trials units within the Trust which include Freeman Clinical Trials office, which is based in the main Pharmacy department or the Northern Centre for Cancer Care Clinical Trials Office. You will report to the Senior lead Clinical Trials Pharmacist and the Senior Lead Clinical Pharmacist – Cancer Services. You will be accountable to the Senior lead Clinical Trials Pharmacist (Trust-wide).
Working for our organisation
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
It is essential that you either hold an independent prescriber qualification or are committed to undertaking this qualification when required to do so.
- To manage and provide the Pharmacy Clinical Trial Service for the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, , ensuring compliance with the UK Clinical Trials Regulations and Trust Research Governance Policies. To organise and develop clinical pharmacy services in cancer services incorporating clinical trials and advanced therapy trials both within the clinical trial and standard of care setting.
- To ensure that the training of a wide variety of pharmacy and other staff on how to handle information on Investigational Medicinal Products (IMPs) is carried out in accordance with Trust guidelines and National Legislation / Guidance.
- To audit compliance with the Medicines Management Committee, Formulary and Hospital Trust recommendations across identified areas within the Trust.
- To conduct and dispense medicines, professionally, effectively, and promptly.
- To participate in Trust wide meetings regarding management and organisation of the Pharmacy Clinical Trials Service within the Trust.
- To participate in HRA pharmacy technical reviews where appropriate.
- To perform the professional role of a Registered Pharmacist, including advice, supervision, and co-operation with colleagues, particularly in relation to support/cover for absent colleagues.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- Registered Pharmacist MPharm degree + post graduate pre-registration training
- Clinical Diploma (or equivalent higher qualification)
Desirable criteria
- Management training course
- Clinical Masters
- Independent Prescriber qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive post registration experience in hospital pharmacy, some at a senior level
- Demonstrate a developing clinical role
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
- Understanding of Clinical Trials legislation
- Understanding of National Clinical Trials policy and practice
- Knowledge of clinical research and its role in pharmacy and medicine
- Well-developed clinical pharmacy knowledge across all aspects of drug use
- Demonstrate knowledge of CT procedures
- Demonstrable awareness of developments in Hospital Pharmacy
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate they have undertaken a staff management role
- Demonstrable involvement in Clinical Trials Support
- Demonstrate they have been involved in the area of clinical audit
- Demonstrable awareness of legislation affecting Pharmacy (directly & indirectly)
- Awareness of Trust policies & procedures which impinge on role
- Specialist knowledge of the cancer services clinical area or directorate
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate ability to communicate, oral and written, specialist clinical information
- One to one communication
- Influencing and negotiating skills
- Basic computer skills
Desirable criteria
- Ability to empathise
- Evidence of lecturing to professional audiences
- Microsoft Office
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kieran Ainsley
- Job title
- Clinical Trials Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2824298
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