Specialist Haemoglobinopathy Pharmacist

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

7/31/2025

Would you like to work in a forward-thinking team who provides excellent specialist care to haemoglobinopathy patients?

Across the Thames Valley region there are over 700 patients (children and adults) with a haemoglobinopathy disorder. These include sickle cell anaemia, thalassaemia and other rare inherited anaemias.

The care of this group of patients and families is determined by national Haemoglobinopathy care standards (adult and paediatric SCD and thalassaemia guidelines). Our specialist network is peer reviewed to the Quality Review Service standards.

Recognising the essential need for pharmaceutical input in this patient group, we have newly created this pharmacist post, which will be embedded within the adult and paediatric haemoglobinopathy team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a dynamic, motivated pharmacist to develop the skills to be able to work flexibly with both adult and paediatric services, on a local and regional level. Working closely with the friendly and welcoming haemoglobinopathy team, this is an opportunity to make a genuine difference to patient care.

Flexible working applications will be considered. We will also consider job sharing with a complementary post to make up a full-time post.

Specific experience within this specialty is not essential as we will ensure you have the orientation, support, education and training required to develop within this role.

Key Roles Include

• Delivery of high-quality pharmaceutical care to adult and paediatric patients with major haemoglobin disorders
• Contribution to local, national and international specialist interest groups and conferences/meetings, such as the Haemoglobinopathy Pharmacist Engagement Meeting.
• Collaboration with the haemoglobinopathies network to produce shared care agreements, guidelines, referral pathways and horizon scanning for new medicines.
• Participation in multidisciplinary ward rounds and team meetings
• Pharmacist-led patient education clinics
• Pharmacist non-medical prescribing in multidisciplinary clinics and day treatment unit
  
  

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.

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 this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and 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 the OUH YouTube channel.

Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset.

The post is hosted within the friendly adult cancer & haematology pharmacy team, which includes Consultant Pharmacists, Highly Advanced and Advanced Pharmacists, as well as the first Advanced Cancer Pharmacy Technicians nationally. You would have strong networks of peer support and mentorship. Our team have specialist haematology and oncology pharmacist non-medical prescribers who are embedded within the MDT to review and prescribe important treatments for our patients.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Yen Lim Job title: Highly Advanced Haematology Pharmacist Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01865 857188

Nicola Stoner: [email protected], Consultant Pharmacist - Cancer & ATMPs