Advanced Oncology Pharmacist – Electronic Prescribing

Main area Pharmacy Grade NHS AfC:
Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job
-CAN-8321522

Site Mount Vernon Cancer Centre Town Northwood Salary £57,528 - £64,750 Per annum + 15% High Cost Area Supplement Salary period Yearly Closing 29/10/2026 23:59

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Our values - We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do. Our values are:

Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

We are recruiting for an Advanced Oncology Pharmacist
- Electronic Prescribing who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

As the Advanced Pharmacist
- Electronic Prescribing you will lead, manage and develop the operational pharmacy services to ensure that patients receive safe, high quality and clinical effective pharmaceutical care.

You will be supported to develop their leadership and management skills. Candidates who do not meet all the essential and desirable criteria are welcome to apply for this role and a Band 7 to Band 8A developmental role will be offered.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:
Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

The role involves leading and managing the strategy, design, and development of the Electronic Prescribing (EP) system for Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT).

It includes maintaining the EP system, electronic referrals, and electronic Patient Reported Outcome Measures for SACT. The postholder provides support and leadership for all aspects of SACT EP. Additionally, they are responsible for facilitating the delivery of the oncology pharmacy service at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, with a particular focus on electronic prescribing.

A key aspect of the role also includes the development of policies and procedures to ensure safe medication practices in relation to electronic prescribing.

Apply specialist knowledge to a designated patient group to develop pharmacist prescribing role, undertaking the clinical management and drug treatment of patients under an agreed clinical management plan following diagnosis by a medical practitioner.

You will promote the safe, clinically effective and cost-effective use of medicines by providing expert advice on oncology pharmacy issues including clinical, funding, and prescribing issues

As a member of pharmacy management team to help deliver a strategic vision for the pharmacy department and business plan in line with cancer centre and trust strategies.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more…