Haematology and Oncology Pharmacist

Slough, England, United Kingdom

7/31/2025

Job Overview

Would you like to be part of something amazing? Would you like to be involved in directly helping cancer patients? Frimley Health is investing in pharmacy staff to manage the increasing demand on pharmacy cancer services.

This post offers an opportunity to pharmacists who would like to specialise in cancer and progress from a band 7 to a band 8a. Training will be provided to become an accredited cancer pharmacist and also to be validated to release chemotherapy and monoclonal antibodies from our on site aseptic unit. We are committed to develop our staff, working closely with our clinical pharmacy and education & training teams.

Frimley Health provides haematology and oncology care to patients on an in-patient and outpatient basis across three sites. The sites provide care to patients in Surrey, East Berkshire and South Buckinghamshire. This post is based on the Wexham Park Hospital site.

The post holder will provide specialist clinical cancer services to the haematology day unit, haematology clinics, oncology wards, support clinical trials and undertake final checking within aseptic services.

Main duties of the job

• The role will involve working within clinical haematology and oncology and pharmacy aseptic services.
• The post holder will assist with providing clinical services to haematology and oncology inpatients and outpatients on a daily basis. This will involve working closely with the multidisciplinary team on both the wards, clinics and in the day units.
• You should have completed the clinical diploma or equivalent and be committed to continuing professional development within the field.
• You must have hospital pharmacy experience involving clinical pharmacy skills preferably in a haematology and oncology setting (but this is ot essential)
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• To act as a specialist clinical pharmacist in cancer services, providing clinical support to the delivery of chemotherapy prescriptions after completion of competency based assessments.
• To support the pharmacy team in understanding the scope of technical and professional guidance on all matters relating to aseptic preparation of pharmaceutical products within the Trust, including appropriate outsourcing of aseptic products purchased from external providers as appropriate.
• To support the aseptic unit according to the NHS Long Term Plan ambitions for cancer and to implement Trust policies in relation to the pharmaceutical care of haematology and oncology patients.
  
  

For more information please see attached job description and person specification

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MSc in Pharmacy Practice/Cancer Services or equivalent
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
• GPhC registration
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Independent Prescribing qualification
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication skills- demonstrated in writing
• Organisational skills- evidence in application
• Excellent interpersonal skill- evidence in application
  
  

Desirable criteria

• IT technical skills
• Evidence of haem/Onc CPD
• IT skill - use of E-chemo prescribing systems e.g Aria
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable experience in hospital pharmacy
• Experience of training and mentoring
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of techical services regulations and requirements
• Demonstrable evidence of working in technical services
• Demonstrable evidence of working in haem/onc
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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