Advanced Specialist Pharmacist Band

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, dynamic, innovative, and enthusiastic pharmacist to join an established team of Specialist Clinical Pharmacists to support cancer patients. You will be part of the wider Pharmacy Cancer Team and joint Lead at the satellite pharmacy on the Cancer Unit at the County, providing clinical services to out‑patient clinics, the local hospice, and clinical trials.

The County Cancer Unit has a nurse‑led 16‑chair out‑patient day unit. The Cancer Centre at the Royal Stoke site includes a 40‑bedded in‑patient ward, a 27‑chair out‑patient area, and four linear accelerators. The Acute Oncology Service spans both sites with a dedicated Emergency Admissions Bay at the Royal Stoke. Electronic prescribing is now well established across Adult (ARIA®) Cancer Services.

UHNM is a Cancer Centre with Level 3 haematology and a UK Myeloma Centre of Excellence. The Clinical Trials team manages a broad portfolio of both commercial and non‑commercial trials.

This is an exciting time to join our specialist Cancer Services team to further improve quality and patient experience.

• Deliver a comprehensive and consistently high‑quality clinical pharmacy service and medicines management to cancer patients.
• Work with the Cancer Pharmacy team and Cancer Team Leaders to review clinical pathways and services.
• Be responsible for specific disease sites, develop specialist knowledge, and forge links with specialist centres.
• Clinically screen SACT prescriptions according to locally agreed standards, after competency‑based training in line with the British Oncology Pharmacy Association SACT Passport to Level 3.
• Undertake further education to become a Pharmacist Independent Prescriber (PIP) when required.
• Deliver pharmacy elements of cancer clinical trials.
• Implement relevant local, network, and national standards.
• Obtain and assure correct funding, including Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF), individual funding requests (IFRs), and early access to medicine schemes (EAMS).

You will work alongside Oncology, Haematology and Paediatric Cancer teams under the management of the Lead Pharmacists, and there will be opportunities to work at the Royal Stoke site.

Independent prescribing is actively encouraged, with two pharmacists already having allocated prescribing clinics across both Oncology and Haematology. All specialist pharmacists are encouraged to undertake further training to become independent prescribers.

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• We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
• Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies.
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• You can contact Isabel Roberts for further information.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.