Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Pharmacy - FH
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2025-15-10-DR
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Freeman Hospital
- Town
- 317 01 Freeman Hospital
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/04/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 07/05/2025
Employer heading
Specialist Pharmacist
Band 7
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
We are looking for an outstanding individual, to join our well-established team of clinical pharmacists, providing a comprehensive and high quality clinical pharmacy service across the Trust’s Adult Oncology and Haematology, as well as Paediatric Oncology services.
- Interview date: Wednesday, 7th May 2025
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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.
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Main duties of the job
The Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC) is based at the Freeman Hospital site, and provides systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT), bone marrow transplant (BMT) and advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) services to adult oncology and haematology patients, as well as radiotherapy for both adults and paediatrics. The centre houses three inpatient wards dedicated to treating cancer patients, as well as a busy SACT day unit, associated supportive therapies facilities, an ambulatory care unit and both early and late phase clinical trials units.
The Paediatric Oncology unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary treats children and young people under the age of 19 who have cancer, leukaemia and other related diseases. The unit is a designated Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG) centre and covers the whole of the Northern region, from Teesside to Newcastle, and Northumberland across to Cumbria.
An exciting regional development in recent years means that solid tumour patients treated in North Cumbria are now under the care of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. A brand new purpose-built facility has recently opened on the Carlisle site, which offers dedicated day unit accommodation, consultation facilities, and radiotherapy services.
Working for our organisation
Our staff oversee around 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
The Trust strives to be at the forefront of anti-cancer treatments, and this has recently been demonstrated by our selection as one of only three centres in England to offer CAR-T therapy to both adult and paediatric patients.
These posts will support, and further augment, our clinical pharmacy service to both Paediatric Oncology and Adult Cancer Services, on a rotational basis. This includes involvement in clinical trials (first in human, through to late phase) and the chemotherapy electronic prescribing system (ChemoCare) for which the Trust is the hub site for the region. Attendance at consultant-led ward rounds and multidisciplinary team meetings would also be required.
We require motivated and enthusiastic pharmacists, who are registered with the GPhC, with significant post-qualification experience, to become members of our team. Experience in cancer services and/or paediatrics is desirable, but not essential, as full training will be given. Candidates who possess an independent prescribing (IP) qualification will be encouraged to use this within an agreed cancer sub-specialty, once training objectives are complete. Our team currently supports IP activity in many cancers, including lung, melanoma, upper GI, prostate, colorectal, gynaecological, and myeloproliferative disorders.
Successful candidates will be expected to participate in extended hours services for one year post appointment and then subsequently in the cancer services weekend and Bank Holiday rota, which provides specialist clinical pharmacist support on the NCCC site, 7 days a week, 364 days a year.
- To develop and maintain clinical pharmacy services in a specialist area or directorate within the overall Trust clinical pharmacy strategy.
- To participate in the provision of other pharmacy patient services functions.
- To promote the safe, rational and cost effective use of medicines by working closely with nursing and medical staff and health care managers.
- 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.
- To support patients to achieve their health goals in relation to medicines by providing person centred care.
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.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable evidence of competence in general clinical practice
- Demonstrable evidence of competence in speciality
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options
- Ability to communicate in a verbal or written manner with patients, junior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff
- Ability to influence junior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff
- Demonstrated commitment to enhancing the quality of patient care
Desirable criteria
- Teaching skills
- Ability to utilise presentation, spreadsheet and database software packages to support the work of the clinical pharmacy team
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience in hospital pharmacy.
- Experience of working in a hospital environment
- Demonstrable post-graduate experience in pharmacy
- Experience of working with specialist patient cohort
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within specialist area
- Evidence of involvement in clinical audit
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- UK-registered pharmacist (GPhC)
- Completion of MPharm degree (or an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy with relevant experience) plus pre-registration training and experience
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy, or satisfactory evidence of equivalent competence as demonstrated in a practice portfolio of evidence
Desirable criteria
- Clinical Diploma / Clinical Masters
- Registered with the GPhc as an independent prescriber
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Christopher Beck
- Job title
- Senior Lead Clinical Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01912139270
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