Job summary
We're looking for a passionate, forward-thinking Cancer Pharmacist to join our Cancer Services team at UHB as a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist in Haematology and Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs). This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred pharmaceutical care within haematology and cellular therapies such as CAR-T.
In this permanent position, you'll work closely with the Lead ATMP Pharmacist -- Haematology to manage the growing ATMP service. Your time will be split between the CAR-T/ATMP and Haematology services, with the potential for increased involvement in the former as the ATMP service expands.
The Pharmacy Cancer Services Division at UHB provides world class cancer care to patients from across the country, with a range of specialised services in oncology and haematology including stem cell transplantation and CAR-T, delivered by a team of pharmacy specialists. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver cutting-edge therapies, ensuring the safe, effective, and timely delivery of treatment.
Why Join Us?
*Work at one of the largest CAR-T centres in the UK and contribute to cutting-edge therapies.
*Develop your skills as a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist, with opportunities to grow and shape your research interests.
*We offer a supportive and dynamic environment where clinical governance and service development are at the heart of what we do.
Main duties of the job
The main responsibilities would include:
* To manage the day-to-day delivery of clinical pharmacy services to ATMP and haematology patients, including inpatient and outpatient care.
* Support delivery and development of the Haematology ATMP programme, providing expert pharmaceutical advice on safe and compliant ATMP use.
* To support the training and development of pharmacists in the field of ATMPs.
* Promote safe, effective, and cost-efficient medicines use through ward-based services and multidisciplinary collaboration.
* Work as a non-medical prescriber in haematology outpatient clinics and prescribe ongoing anticancer treatment if appropriate and required
* Contribute to audit and research programmes as needed.
* Support the weekend and on-call rota
What We're Looking For:
* An enthusiastic, motivated clinical pharmacist with significant experience in haematology.
* Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a commitment to working in a multidisciplinary setting.
* A keen interest in service development and improving patient outcomes.
* The ability to work independently and as part of a team, with a focus on delivering high-quality care.
If you're ready to make a difference in the world of haematology and ATMPs, we'd love to hear from you.
For further information, an informal chat or to arrange a visit, please email Vaishali Dulobdas (vaishali.dulobdas@uhb.nhs.uk).
Interviews are planned for 13th April 2026.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *4-year vocational master's degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
- *Post-graduate clinical pharmacy qualification or equivalent experience
- *Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council
- *Willingness to work towards non-medical prescribing qualification.
Desirable
- *Working towards Level I Faculty Membership with the RPS
- *Non-medical prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
- *Significant post-registration hospital pharmacy experience in Haematology /oncology
- *Possesses relevant clinical knowledge in Haematology
- *Demonstrates good knowledge of Haematology and current issues
- *Previous participation in multi-disciplinary team
- *Demonstrates commitment and enthusiasm for providing high quality pharmaceutical care
- *Demonstrates good critical appraisal skills
- *Knowledge of national initiatives and guidelines, e.g. NICE, NSF
- *Possesses knowledge of available resources to answer Medicines Information queries
- *Able to work with drug budget information.
Desirable
- *Experience of teaching/presenting to other healthcare professionals/patients
- *Ability to manage budgets and deliver on cost improvement programmes
- *Previous involvement in clinical trials
- *Possesses relevant and current clinical knowledge in ATMPs
- *Experience as a clinical pharmacist in chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T -cell patients
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Able to use initiative and work without supervision when necessary
- *Good communication skills, written and verbal, with ability to demonstrate fluency, clarity and effectiveness at all levels.
- *IT and presentation skills and report writing
- *Time management skills
- *Organisational skills
- *Negotiating skills
- *Co-ordination of duties of staff
- *Can prioritise local and own workload and that of others
- *Can meet deadlines
- *Can remain composed and effective in demanding situations (students in difficulties, delivering unfavourable feedback, as advocate for students in negotiating with senior staff, staff and patients in department, on wards and on-call)
- *Can reflect and critically analyse own performance
- *Can critically and objectively analyse performance of others
- *Able to identify, prioritise and solve problems
- *Identifies and manages risk
- *Numerate and literate
- *Able to work effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team
- *Committed to developing and extending pharmacy services
- *Able to critically evaluate evidence.
- *Able to implement change
- *Proven ability to work to deadlines and time management without supervision.
- *Well-motivated and reliable
- *Able to work with all grades of staff -- clinical and managerial
- *Professional manner
- *Willingness to travel across all sites within the Trust as required by the job role.
- *Commitment to Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
- *Good teaching and presentation skills (variety of methods, individual and small & large groups)
- *Experience as a trainer
- *Experience of supervision, developing and appraising staff as well as giving feedback
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *4-year vocational master's degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
- *Post-graduate clinical pharmacy qualification or equivalent experience
- *Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council
- *Willingness to work towards non-medical prescribing qualification.
Desirable
- *Working towards Level I Faculty Membership with the RPS
- *Non-medical prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
- *Significant post-registration hospital pharmacy experience in Haematology /oncology
- *Possesses relevant clinical knowledge in Haematology
- *Demonstrates good knowledge of Haematology and current issues
- *Previous participation in multi-disciplinary team
- *Demonstrates commitment and enthusiasm for providing high quality pharmaceutical care
- *Demonstrates good critical appraisal skills
- *Knowledge of national initiatives and guidelines, e.g. NICE, NSF
- *Possesses knowledge of available resources to answer Medicines Information queries
- *Able to work with drug budget information.
Desirable
- *Experience of teaching/presenting to other healthcare professionals/patients
- *Ability to manage budgets and deliver on cost improvement programmes
- *Previous involvement in clinical trials
- *Possesses relevant and current clinical knowledge in ATMPs
- *Experience as a clinical pharmacist in chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T -cell patients
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Able to use initiative and work without supervision when necessary
- *Good communication skills, written and verbal, with ability to demonstrate fluency, clarity and effectiveness at all levels.
- *IT and presentation skills and report writing
- *Time management skills
- *Organisational skills
- *Negotiating skills
- *Co-ordination of duties of staff
- *Can prioritise local and own workload and that of others
- *Can meet deadlines
- *Can remain composed and effective in demanding situations (students in difficulties, delivering unfavourable feedback, as advocate for students in negotiating with senior staff, staff and patients in department, on wards and on-call)
- *Can reflect and critically analyse own performance
- *Can critically and objectively analyse performance of others
- *Able to identify, prioritise and solve problems
- *Identifies and manages risk
- *Numerate and literate
- *Able to work effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team
- *Committed to developing and extending pharmacy services
- *Able to critically evaluate evidence.
- *Able to implement change
- *Proven ability to work to deadlines and time management without supervision.
- *Well-motivated and reliable
- *Able to work with all grades of staff -- clinical and managerial
- *Professional manner
- *Willingness to travel across all sites within the Trust as required by the job role.
- *Commitment to Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
- *Good teaching and presentation skills (variety of methods, individual and small & large groups)
- *Experience as a trainer
- *Experience of supervision, developing and appraising staff as well as giving feedback
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
