Specialist Clinical Pharmacist – Haematology: Sponsorship Available

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Working Full time: 37.5 hours per week

Are you looking for an exciting role with the opportunity to progress your clinical skills alongside extensive transferable expertise that will enhance your career development?

A role in the pharmacy haematology team could be for you.

Haematology is one of the most rapidly evolving areas of healthcare. We are seeing unprecedented advances in new treatments giving you the chance to work at the forefront of patient care and make a real difference to patient’s lives every day. In addition to developing your clinical knowledge and skills within the haematology specialism, in this role you will also have the opportunity to develop broad, highly valued skills across:

  • Medicines optimisation
  • Medicines governance and safety
  • Medicines value
  • Management of high-cost drugs
  • Aseptic services
  • Leadership

You will be joining a dynamic, high-performing pharmacy team. We are friendly, welcoming and fully committed to living the values of our Trust in everything we do. We support each other, celebrate success and work together to deliver the very best care for our patients.

Main duties of the job

  • Provision of expert, high-quality, patient-centred clinical pharmacy services to haematology patients across inpatient and outpatient settings. Note this service is predominantly the Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) within haematology.
  • Undertaking the role of an independent prescriber.
  • Support the introduction of new and emerging treatments.
  • Support trust medicines optimisation and medicines governance priorities.
  • Support effective management of high cost drugs.
  • Provide specialist advice to medical, nursing and pharmacy teams on all aspects of haematology medicines as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Undertake the duties of an ‘Authorised Pharmacist,’ taking responsibility for the final release of aseptically prepared injectable medicines, ensuring full compliance with legal, safety and quality standards.
  • Support the education, training and development of pharmacy trainees and other healthcare professionals.
  • Lead on service improvements and contribute to audit and research activities as part of our drive to continuously improve care for our patients.
  • You will also be required to support the pharmacy dispensary weekend and pharmacist emergency duty service as part of a rota.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Vocational Master’s Degree in Pharmacy
  • Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Evidence of clinical pharmacy skills
  • Evidence of ongoing continued professional development
  • Completed first year of post graduate clinical pharmacy diploma or demonstrable equivalent NHS hospital experience

Desirable

  • Experience as an authorised pharmacist releasing aseptically prepared Systemic AntiCancer Treatment (SACT
  • Experience with verification of Systemic Anti Cancer Therapy (SACT) prescriptions.
  • Post graduate clinical pharmacy diploma
  • Independent prescribing qualification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

  • Relevant post-registration hospital pharmacy experience.
  • Delivery of clinical pharmacy services to a range of specialities

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Closing Date: 13 September 2026

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