Job summary
Would you like to join a forward-thinking team that includes Consultant Pharmacists in Cancer and Palliative Care, Highly Advanced/Advanced Cancer Pharmacists, and the first Advanced Cancer Pharmacy Technicians in the UK? This role offers an opportunity to work with nationally and internationally recognized experts in the field.
Based at Horton General Hospital in Banbury, you will travel to inpatient units in Banbury and Oxford. You will work with one of only two Consultant Palliative Care Pharmacists in the UK and an Advanced Palliative Care Pharmacist, providing innovative and individualized care.
We welcome applications from Band 6 pharmacists completing their clinical pharmacy diplomas/MScs in 2025.
Main duties of the job
Key roles include:
- Providing high-quality pharmaceutical care to adult palliative care patients
- Clinical checking of systemic anticancer treatments and clinical trial prescriptions
- Participating in multidisciplinary ward rounds
- Non-medical prescribing in multidisciplinary clinics
- Verifying outpatient prescriptions
- Conducting incident investigations and reporting
- Performing clinical pharmacy audits
- Contributing to guidelines and policies
- Weekend and bank holiday rota, covering clinical pharmacy
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for full outline of duties and responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for full outline of duties and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified to a degree level (4 year MPharm or equivalent) and Pharmacist registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Diploma / MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable
- Membership of British Oncology Pharmacy Association (BOPA)
- Accredited tutor for Cardiff University Clinical Pharmacy Diploma
- Accredited Non-medical prescriber
- Edward Jenner Leadership programme or equivalent
Technical Skills
Essential
- Computer literate with experience of working with the Microsoft Office package
- Advanced keyboard skills
Desirable
- Experience using Electronic prescribing systems
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a clinical pharmacist
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of teaching and tutoring
- Communicating complex information via multiple methods to a variety of recipients
- Quality improvement, service evaluation or audit
Desirable
- Experience of preparing budgetary reports for clinical areas
- Involvement in a pharmacist led outpatient clinic
- Experience of practice research
- Involvement in developing a service
- Experience of developing drug protocols /contributing to formulary development
Personal Skills
Essential
- Problem identification and solving skills
- Well organised
- Good Time Management
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Ability to prioritise and manage time effectively
- Good interpersonal skills
- Sensitivity and tolerance
- Enthusiastic and self-motivated
- Team worker
- Must demonstrate flexibility in working practices
- Must be assertive
- Capable of working under pressure
- Must show commitment
- Able to make decisions
Desirable
- Understands national priorities in Palliative care and cancer care
- Demonstrable awareness of current cancer issues such as administration of intrathecal chemotherapy and the Manual of Cancer Quality Measures
- Demonstrable awareness of financial pressures
- Publication / conference presentations
- Excellent Clinical Prioritisation
- Evidence of balancing conflicting priorities
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Member of relevant professional group e.g. ASPCP, BOPA
- Ability to travel to all sites including the use of public transport
Behavioural Skills
Essential
- Acts in accordance with the Trust values
- Conducts themselves in a professional manner at all times
- Positive attitude to all tasks and stakeholders.
- Adaptable and resilient
- Growth mindset and continuing professional development
- Appreciation of the value of equality diversity and inclusion
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified to a degree level (4 year MPharm or equivalent) and Pharmacist registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Diploma / MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable
- Membership of British Oncology Pharmacy Association (BOPA)
- Accredited tutor for Cardiff University Clinical Pharmacy Diploma
- Accredited Non-medical prescriber
- Edward Jenner Leadership programme or equivalent
Technical Skills
Essential
- Computer literate with experience of working with the Microsoft Office package
- Advanced keyboard skills
Desirable
- Experience using Electronic prescribing systems
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a clinical pharmacist
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of teaching and tutoring
- Communicating complex information via multiple methods to a variety of recipients
- Quality improvement, service evaluation or audit
Desirable
- Experience of preparing budgetary reports for clinical areas
- Involvement in a pharmacist led outpatient clinic
- Experience of practice research
- Involvement in developing a service
- Experience of developing drug protocols /contributing to formulary development
Personal Skills
Essential
- Problem identification and solving skills
- Well organised
- Good Time Management
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Ability to prioritise and manage time effectively
- Good interpersonal skills
- Sensitivity and tolerance
- Enthusiastic and self-motivated
- Team worker
- Must demonstrate flexibility in working practices
- Must be assertive
- Capable of working under pressure
- Must show commitment
- Able to make decisions
Desirable
- Understands national priorities in Palliative care and cancer care
- Demonstrable awareness of current cancer issues such as administration of intrathecal chemotherapy and the Manual of Cancer Quality Measures
- Demonstrable awareness of financial pressures
- Publication / conference presentations
- Excellent Clinical Prioritisation
- Evidence of balancing conflicting priorities
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Member of relevant professional group e.g. ASPCP, BOPA
- Ability to travel to all sites including the use of public transport
Behavioural Skills
Essential
- Acts in accordance with the Trust values
- Conducts themselves in a professional manner at all times
- Positive attitude to all tasks and stakeholders.
- Adaptable and resilient
- Growth mindset and continuing professional development
- Appreciation of the value of equality diversity and inclusion
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).
