Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Oncology Service as a Chemotherapy Scheduler, supporting the Chemotherapy Unit across Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.

In this vital role, you will work closely with Chemotherapy Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs), Medical Teams, and administrative colleagues to ensure the safe and seamless delivery of chemotherapy and Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapies (SACT). You will be responsible for scheduling treatment pathways, maintaining accurate data, and supporting patients throughout their cancer journey.

This is a patient-facing role requiring excellent communication, organisational, and IT skills, as well as the ability to manage sensitive and complex situations with empathy and professionalism.

Main duties of the job

As a Chemotherapy Scheduler, you will play a key role in coordinating patient pathways, including scheduling and monitoring chemotherapy and outpatient appointments, and ensuring timely prescriptions and treatment delivery. You will act as a central point of contact for patients, carers, and healthcare professionals, handling queries with compassion and professionalism, while maintaining accurate records across systems such as Chemocare, EPR, PPM, and Varian. The role also involves preparing patient documentation, managing waiting lists, producing activity reports, and ensuring each stage of the patient journey is clearly documented and updated.

In addition to pathway coordination and administrative support, you will liaise with multiple departments, including Pharmacy, Radiology, and Transport, to facilitate smooth service delivery. You will contribute to audits, data management, and service improvement initiatives, helping to identify and address inequities in capacity across chemotherapy units. The role demands excellent organisational and communication skills, the ability to work under pressure with high attention to detail, and the emotional resilience to support patients and families through sensitive and sometimes distressing situations.

Working for our organisation

CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees.  We are rated as ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.  

Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients.  That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.