Senior Pharmacist-Haematology & Oncology – Digital
NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
37.5 hours per week (Oncall duties, weekend working and BH)
Job ref 284-26-8003035-DMRG
Site Birmingham Children’s Hospital Town Birmingham
Salary £57,528 – £64,750 pa pro rata. Salary period Yearly. Closing 15/06/2026 23:59. Interview date 01/07/2026
Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.
Job overview
Do you want to make a real difference to patient care and are you looking for your next exciting challenge? Join Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust as a Haematology/Oncology Digital Pharmacist and become part of an innovative team at the forefront of digital transformation in cancer services.
This is a unique opportunity to combine your specialist clinical pharmacy expertise with cutting‑edge digital healthcare systems to improve the safety, quality, and effectiveness of chemotherapy prescribing, dispensing, and administration for children receiving complex cancer treatments.
In this dynamic and rewarding role, you will work closely with multidisciplinary teams, digital specialists, and clinical leaders to develop and optimise electronic prescribing pathways, enhance medicines safety, and support service improvements across haematology and oncology services.
You will play a key role in shaping safer, smarter, and more integrated digital medicines systems that directly improve patient outcomes and experience.
If you are passionate about innovation, patient safety, and advancing digital healthcare within specialist pharmacy services, this is your opportunity to contribute to nationally recognised NHS priorities while developing your leadership, clinical, and digital expertise within a forward‑thinking organisation.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
- Supporting safe electronic prescribing and medicines optimisation for haematology and oncology patients
- Ensuring chemotherapy prescribing, dispensing, and administration processes comply with national safety standards and local governance requirements
- Developing and maintaining digital chemotherapy pathways and electronic treatment protocols
- Working closely with multidisciplinary teams including pharmacists, clinicians, nursing staff, digital teams, and informatics specialists
- Supporting implementation and optimisation of electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) systems
- Contributing to service improvement, audit, governance, and medication safety initiatives
- Supporting national NHS strategies focused on digital transformation, interoperability, and safer cancer care pathways
- Providing specialist pharmaceutical advice for paediatric and oncology-hiematology services
- Delivering training and support to staff using digital prescribing systems
Working for our organization
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a foundation trust delivering high quality care to women, children and families. The Trust offers opportunities to work in a leading specialist paediatric centre and a dedicated women’s hospital.
The Trust is committed to creating the best place to work, promoting inclusive and diverse culture and encouraging applications from all backgrounds.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
Person specification
Qualifications
- MPharm or equivalent degree in pharmacy
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Additional post-registration Postgraduate Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or Independent Prescriber Qualification (masters level)
- Registration with Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Knowledge & Nature of Experience
- Understand the background and aims of current healthcare and digital policy
- Experience in providing pharmacy services/pharmacist review to paediatrics
- Experience in providing specialist pharmacist review of people with cancer
- Experience of handling chemotherapy in any setting
- Experience of managing a clinical pharmacy service to a specialty on a day‑to‑day basis (e.g. whilst covering a more senior colleague)
- Experience of writing policies and procedures.
- Experience of developing business cases.
Analytical & Judgement Skills
- Ability to analyse highly complex data relating to medication use and present in a way that actions and follow‑up can be identified
- Problem solving skills and the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
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