Job summary
An exceptional opportunity for the position of Consultant Pharmacist for Cancer Services has arisen at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for a highly motivated, dedicated and experienced pharmacist to shape the future of cancer medicines services.
*Please note*
Should you be successfully shortlisted for interview the proposed interview date will be on 5th March 2026. There will be a stakeholder session prior to panel interview, details will be shared closer to interview date
Main duties of the job
The Consultant Pharmacist, as an expert in oncology pharmacy practice, provides a dynamic link between clinical practice and service development by creating models for delivering patient care ensuring the best experience and outcomes for patients from their medicines whenever and wherever their care is delivered. Working in partnership with Medical Oncologists, Haematologists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Cancer services managers and the pharmacy team, they aim to improve the quality of all aspects of SACT (Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment) prescribing and administration. Although the consultant pharmacist's expert clinical practice will be in oncology, the post holder will provide medicines leadership across the whole of cancer services. Progress from band 8b to 8c once fully credentialed.
The post holder will demonstrate their expertise across the 4 pillars of consultant level practice (clinical practice, leadership, education and research). They will work with the Pharmacy and Clinical Leadership Teams to ensure the provision of an excellent, innovative and patient focused service to patients. They will provide support and mentoring to pharmacy colleagues and clinical staff
About us
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it's down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience - we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Expert clinical practice
- To act as Head of Service for Chemotherapy within ANHSFT ensuring national standards for Peer Review are met and maintained. Interpreting national guidance and local agenda
- To work within the local integrated care system to provide expert advice and support to GPs, ICB and practice pharmacists and community pharmacists in relation to cancer medicines and local and national guidelines in order to achieve the optimum use of these medicines..
- To participate in collaborative work with Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust and wider West Yorkshire partners, in running patient chemotherapy review clinics, protocol management, guideline preparation, providing advice on the management of oncology conditions, education & training, as well as collaborative research.
To promote the safe use of medicines in oncology across the Trust, and act as an expert resource across the Trust, the region and nationally through membership of BOPA and representing the Trust at regional and national meetings
- To provide a clinical pharmacy service to Medical Oncology within ANHSFT, optimising patient outcomes and improving patient experience, working within patient care pathways across sectors and healthcare boundaries.
- To undertake patient reviews in outpatient clinics, improving health outcomes for patients using a holistic approach to care. This will include assessment of chemotherapy toxicities, prescribing chemotherapy, ordering CT and MRI scans where appropriate (working within local non-medical referral guidelines and national regulations such as IRMER). To provide clinical information to patients, including where there is uncertainty, in accessible and considered ways.
- To use innovation to support effective patient outcomes, safety and experience aligned with relevant national agenda.
- To perform clinical screening of SACT prescriptions, making appropriate interventions to ensure treatments are safe and according to protocol.
Leadership and Management
To act as a mentor and role model as an expert clinical pharmacist; manager and leader and demonstrate this locally, regionally and nationally.
- To lead and provide line management for the pharmacy team in the provision of a safe, effective and efficient clinical pharmacy service to cancer patients, in accordance with local and national standards and strategy. This includes ensuring the cancer services team are trained and competent for their role through training and appraisal, through use of the BOPA SACT Passport.
- To provide clinical leadership on future developments towards collaborative working for the Chemocare prescribing system, the introduction of new protocols, clinical leadership for upgrades and to ensure all staff are trained in the use of the system
Education and Research
- To undertake clinical and pharmacy practice research and to develop a workforce that is research aware as well as contributing to audit and service evaluation.
- To lead and deliver education and training in oncology for pharmacy, other healthcare professionals and patients across the health economy.
To further develop formal links with the University of Bradford and other Higher Education Institutions to undertake collaborative research and undergraduate / postgraduate teaching
- Lead, plan, undertake and publish clinical audit and research in relation to innovations and improvements in SACT prescribing and use.
Professional
- Practice within the boundaries described within the latest version of the Medicines, Ethics and Practice issued by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society setting and demonstrating high professional standards in all aspects of work both clinical and managerial Undertake and record a continuing professional development annually as required by professional bodies.
- To ensure Cancer Drug Fund innovations and NICE chemotherapy appraisals are appropriately implemented. To provide expert advice at highly specialist level on pharmaceutical matters relating to SACT and support the development of guidelines in the use of SACT in conjunction with the Drug and Therapeutics Committee (DTC). To work with commissioners in relation to reporting, data quality and commissioning decisions and challenges as appropriate.
- To be responsible for ensuring that the monthly invoice to the Cancer Drugs Fund, to ensure correct payment of invoices for pass through drug costs, is completed in a timely and accurate manner. To support and inform the forecast for the budgetary impacts of new cancer treatments, or those with changes in usage.
- To support and lead appropriate waste reduction schemes in relation to cancer medicines.
- To Chair meetings of the ANHSFT Clinical Chemotherapy Operational Group
- To maintain a high standard of work at all times and to undertake such other duties as may from time to time be decreed necessary by the Chief Pharmacist
- Participate in the pharmacist clinical rota, operational pharmacy service rota, the pharmacy weekend, bank holiday and out-of-hours on-call service on a rota basis.
In pursuing these duties the post holder will ensure compliance with the NHS Constitution and be familiar with the NHS England Guidance Understanding the new NHS.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Expert clinical practice
- To act as Head of Service for Chemotherapy within ANHSFT ensuring national standards for Peer Review are met and maintained. Interpreting national guidance and local agenda
- To work within the local integrated care system to provide expert advice and support to GPs, ICB and practice pharmacists and community pharmacists in relation to cancer medicines and local and national guidelines in order to achieve the optimum use of these medicines..
- To participate in collaborative work with Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust and wider West Yorkshire partners, in running patient chemotherapy review clinics, protocol management, guideline preparation, providing advice on the management of oncology conditions, education & training, as well as collaborative research.
To promote the safe use of medicines in oncology across the Trust, and act as an expert resource across the Trust, the region and nationally through membership of BOPA and representing the Trust at regional and national meetings
- To provide a clinical pharmacy service to Medical Oncology within ANHSFT, optimising patient outcomes and improving patient experience, working within patient care pathways across sectors and healthcare boundaries.
- To undertake patient reviews in outpatient clinics, improving health outcomes for patients using a holistic approach to care. This will include assessment of chemotherapy toxicities, prescribing chemotherapy, ordering CT and MRI scans where appropriate (working within local non-medical referral guidelines and national regulations such as IRMER). To provide clinical information to patients, including where there is uncertainty, in accessible and considered ways.
- To use innovation to support effective patient outcomes, safety and experience aligned with relevant national agenda.
- To perform clinical screening of SACT prescriptions, making appropriate interventions to ensure treatments are safe and according to protocol.
Leadership and Management
To act as a mentor and role model as an expert clinical pharmacist; manager and leader and demonstrate this locally, regionally and nationally.
- To lead and provide line management for the pharmacy team in the provision of a safe, effective and efficient clinical pharmacy service to cancer patients, in accordance with local and national standards and strategy. This includes ensuring the cancer services team are trained and competent for their role through training and appraisal, through use of the BOPA SACT Passport.
- To provide clinical leadership on future developments towards collaborative working for the Chemocare prescribing system, the introduction of new protocols, clinical leadership for upgrades and to ensure all staff are trained in the use of the system
Education and Research
- To undertake clinical and pharmacy practice research and to develop a workforce that is research aware as well as contributing to audit and service evaluation.
- To lead and deliver education and training in oncology for pharmacy, other healthcare professionals and patients across the health economy.
To further develop formal links with the University of Bradford and other Higher Education Institutions to undertake collaborative research and undergraduate / postgraduate teaching
- Lead, plan, undertake and publish clinical audit and research in relation to innovations and improvements in SACT prescribing and use.
Professional
- Practice within the boundaries described within the latest version of the Medicines, Ethics and Practice issued by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society setting and demonstrating high professional standards in all aspects of work both clinical and managerial Undertake and record a continuing professional development annually as required by professional bodies.
- To ensure Cancer Drug Fund innovations and NICE chemotherapy appraisals are appropriately implemented. To provide expert advice at highly specialist level on pharmaceutical matters relating to SACT and support the development of guidelines in the use of SACT in conjunction with the Drug and Therapeutics Committee (DTC). To work with commissioners in relation to reporting, data quality and commissioning decisions and challenges as appropriate.
- To be responsible for ensuring that the monthly invoice to the Cancer Drugs Fund, to ensure correct payment of invoices for pass through drug costs, is completed in a timely and accurate manner. To support and inform the forecast for the budgetary impacts of new cancer treatments, or those with changes in usage.
- To support and lead appropriate waste reduction schemes in relation to cancer medicines.
- To Chair meetings of the ANHSFT Clinical Chemotherapy Operational Group
- To maintain a high standard of work at all times and to undertake such other duties as may from time to time be decreed necessary by the Chief Pharmacist
- Participate in the pharmacist clinical rota, operational pharmacy service rota, the pharmacy weekend, bank holiday and out-of-hours on-call service on a rota basis.
In pursuing these duties the post holder will ensure compliance with the NHS Constitution and be familiar with the NHS England Guidance Understanding the new NHS.
Person Specification
Qualifications and experience
Essential
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
- Independent prescribing qualification
Desirable
- Evidence of commitment to RPS consultant pharmacist portfolio
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of ability to exercise strategic vision in the future planning of cancer services
Person Specification
Qualifications and experience
Essential
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
- Independent prescribing qualification
Desirable
- Evidence of commitment to RPS consultant pharmacist portfolio
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of ability to exercise strategic vision in the future planning of cancer services
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).
