Lead Pharmacist - Oncology and Haematology

Job summary

Are you an experienced pharmacist looking for a career change or your next challenge in an acute hospital trust?

About our Pharmacy Service  are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Clinical Pharmacist to consolidate our friendly Pharmacy team here eer progression of the current post holder has released this key position to allow a committed and self-motivated Pharmacist to join our Oncology and Haematology service; being based within the Woolverstone centre at Ipswich Hospital but with the expectation of cross site collaboration with colleagues at Colchester Hospital.

You will be a fully established member of the multi-disciplinary team and will be pivotal in the maintenance, and developing of, our clinical services within the speciality.

Our friendly pharmacy team are dedicated to nurturing, mentoring and developing our staff to reach their full potential. We provide pharmacy forums, tutorials and weekly ICS/ESNEFT delivered educational workshops. We support personal development plans, smart objective setting and opportunities for study.

ESNEFT has recently implemented the Epic Electronic Patient Record system and this is now fully embedded into Trust  addition to our fully automated dispensaries, Pharmacy hosts one of the NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service medicines advice sites and a Regional Pharmacy Manufacturing Unit (including a new Aseptic facility).Main duties of the job Provide highly specialised clinical pharmacy services to the Oncology & Haematology Clinical Delivery Group;

this includes the Ipswich site's Chemotherapy and Haematology suite, in-patient ward and out-patient clinics.

Proactively contribute to the cross-site ESNEFT Clinical Delivery Group agenda.

Develop the clinical pharmacy service within specified tumour types.

Develop clinical guidelines and protocols for the use of medicines within the speciality.

Contribute to the provision of the Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) preparation service by validating and final checking SACT prescriptions.

About us We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

Find out about living and working here -  posted
09 October 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

BandBand 8aSalary
57,528 to 64,750 a year

per annum

Contract Permanent Working  pattern

Full-time

Reference number
432-HR948-26

Job locations

Ipswich Hospital Heath RoadIpswichIP4 5PD
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