• Job Description

  Req#: C9298-MMP-408?language=en&page=7&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Expected Shortlisting Date

  18/08/2025

  An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated and motivated pharmacist to join the Haematology Pharmacy Team as an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals.

  As the haematology service grows we have been supported with extra funding to grow our specialist pharmacy team. The successful post holder would take on the management of one of our speciality portfolios (Chronic Lymphoproliferative Disorder's) whilst in addition providing clinical pharmacy services to the full range of haematology in and outpatients as part of the wider team.

  We are looking for someone who is able to manage a dynamic and changing workload providing oversight to a specific sub speciality of Haematology. The post holder will be expected to utilise skills around medicines governance, finance and clinical trials.

  In addition, the successful candidate would be responsible for the validation of Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) and inputting to pharmaceutical care on our specialist inpatient wards. All additional training requirements would be covered using our structured SACT verification training programme.

  Experience with SACT is desirable but certainly not essential. There are lots of skills which can be brought from other specialties to support you in this role.

  Main duties of the job

  - Provide an advanced clinical pharmacy service to our inpatient wards including those receiving inpatient Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT)

  - Validation of SACT across a range of sub specialities

  - Support the review and setup of new clinical trials added to the haematology portfolio as well as management of amendments to existing ones.

  - Utilisation of the ChemoCare prescribing system to setup both trial and non-trial treatment templates for use in the Leeds Cancer Centre

  - Attendance at speciality meetings and/or MDTs

  - Support the implementation of new anti-cancer treatments within the post holders designated area of practice

  - Support Drug & Therapeutics processes for individual and cohort applications for the unlicensed use of medicines

  - Undertake finance reporting to support the best value for medicines agenda

  - Provide training and supervision to colleagues in the cancer team and across pharmacy

  - Supervise and line manage a junior pharmacist within the cancer services pharmacy team

  About us

  The haematology pharmacy team work together on a daily basis to ensure that some of our most complex and challenging treatments within Leeds Teaching Hospitals are delivered safely, efficiently and in a patient centered manner. Our team is made up of some highly experienced pharmacists who have strong working relationships with the wider multi-disciplinary team.

  Any new starter to the team receives a thorough induction drawing on the years of experience possessed by our pharmacists and technicians within various specialist fields.

  We have a strong ethos of workforce development. We strive to ensure that all members of the team are able to access development opportunities not solely limited to clinical work as well as the facilitation of regular team based clinical education sessions.

  Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

  Details

  Date posted

  22 July 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 8a

  Salary

  £55,690 to £62,682 a year

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  C9298-MMP-408

  Job locations

  St. James's University Hospital

  Beckett Street

  Leeds

  LS9 7TF

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Clinical

  Lead the highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to patients and the multidisciplinary team within a given clinical speciality.

  Supports the Trust's Prescribing Standards and challenges practice where prescribers have not adhered to the Medicines Code.

  Demonstrate the ability to provide safe, clinically effective and cost-effective use of medicines in accordance with Trust policy, standard operating procedures and medicine legislation. This will include individual prescription review to optimise therapy, advising on dosage and side effects and on safe administration of medicines. The post holder is expected to determine how the outcomes are best achieve in specific circumstances.

  Pharmacists who are registered as prescribers will, with the agreement of the clinical director of the speciality, prescribe within their level of competence, to support patient care.

  Plan, manage, monitor and review individual patient care plans.

  Participate in consultant ward rounds and multi-disciplinary team meetings.

  Manage difficult and ambiguous problems, often when information is limited.

  Undertake risk management, including investigating clinical incidents in the clinical area and ensuring compliance with medicine legislation.

  The post holder will be expected to identify, where necessary, areas that require service changes and develop a strategy to carry out the change through consultation with senior colleagues within and outside the pharmacy.

  Manage the introduction of new drugs, including unlicensed drugs, into the clinical speciality.

  Manage the clinical pharmacist input into clinical trials.

  Develop and update policies for the safe, effective and economic use of medicines through discussion with medical and nursing staff.

  Communication with Primary Care about medicines policies or guidelines specific for their area of practice.

  Management

  Monitor and interpret expenditure on medicines within own clinical speciality. Provide the Directorate with regular reports to assist in the management of the drug budget

  a. Attend the monthly Clinical Speciality Management meetings to advise on medicine use and financial implications

  - Horizon scan for new drugs and advise the clinical speciality meetings on the financial implications

  b. Co-ordinate Medicines Use Savings Projects

  c. Review prescribing data from out-patient clinics

  Contribution to financial initiatives

  Write or respond to business cases for service development to secure additional funding.

  Responsible for day to day supervision / management of specialist clinical pharmacists in clinical speciality (some staff)

  Research and Education

  Occasionally participates in research and development within clinical speciality

  Undertakes own research/audit within clinical speciality

  Supervise, teach, and assess junior pharmacy staff completing training modules within the clinical area. This input varies, mostly based on the experience of the post holder, and will typically include:

  - Acting as a trainer to pre-registration and junior pharmacists in their area of specialist practice

  - Being a named tutor for a pre-registration and/or diploma pharmacist

  - Lecturing on clinical issues relevant to the specialty, as part of the pre-registration training program, the clinical diploma, and any other in service training.

  The post holder is also expected to participate in the training of other clinical professionals within their specialist area as requested.

  Develop the role of a specialist pharmacist through national links.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Clinical

  Lead the highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to patients and the multidisciplinary team within a given clinical speciality.

  Supports the Trust's Prescribing Standards and challenges practice where prescribers have not adhered to the Medicines Code.

  Demonstrate the ability to provide safe, clinically effective and cost-effective use of medicines in accordance with Trust policy, standard operating procedures and medicine legislation. This will include individual prescription review to optimise therapy, advising on dosage and side effects and on safe administration of medicines. The post holder is expected to determine how the outcomes are best achieve in specific circumstances.

  Pharmacists who are registered as prescribers will, with the agreement of the clinical director of the speciality, prescribe within their level of competence, to support patient care.

  Plan, manage, monitor and review individual patient care plans.

  Participate in consultant ward rounds and multi-disciplinary team meetings.

  Manage difficult and ambiguous problems, often when information is limited.

  Undertake risk management, including investigating clinical incidents in the clinical area and ensuring compliance with medicine legislation.

  The post holder will be expected to identify, where necessary, areas that require service changes and develop a strategy to carry out the change through consultation with senior colleagues within and outside the pharmacy.

  Manage the introduction of new drugs, including unlicensed drugs, into the clinical speciality.

  Manage the clinical pharmacist input into clinical trials.

  Develop and update policies for the safe, effective and economic use of medicines through discussion with medical and nursing staff.

  Communication with Primary Care about medicines policies or guidelines specific for their area of practice.

  Management

  Monitor and interpret expenditure on medicines within own clinical speciality. Provide the Directorate with regular reports to assist in the management of the drug budget

  a. Attend the monthly Clinical Speciality Management meetings to advise on medicine use and financial implications

  - Horizon scan for new drugs and advise the clinical speciality meetings on the financial implications

  b. Co-ordinate Medicines Use Savings Projects

  c. Review prescribing data from out-patient clinics

  Contribution to financial initiatives

  Write or respond to business cases for service development to secure additional funding.

  Responsible for day to day supervision / management of specialist clinical pharmacists in clinical speciality (some staff)

  Research and Education

  Occasionally participates in research and development within clinical speciality

  Undertakes own research/audit within clinical speciality

  Supervise, teach, and assess junior pharmacy staff completing training modules within the clinical area. This input varies, mostly based on the experience of the post holder, and will typically include:

  - Acting as a trainer to pre-registration and junior pharmacists in their area of specialist practice

  - Being a named tutor for a pre-registration and/or diploma pharmacist

  - Lecturing on clinical issues relevant to the specialty, as part of the pre-registration training program, the clinical diploma, and any other in service training.

  The post holder is also expected to participate in the training of other clinical professionals within their specialist area as requested.

  Develop the role of a specialist pharmacist through national links.

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Understanding and appreciation of local and national pharmaceutical and clinical strategies
  • Understanding of NHS/government policy and its applications
  • Skills around team dynamics and effective leadership strategies to optimise performance
  • Advanced clinical pharmacy knowledge in a relevant area (does not need to be Cancer/Haematology)

  Skills & behaviours

  Essential

  • Team player
  • Enthusiastic
  • Self motivated
  • Able to work under own initiative
  • Be highly adaptive to changing circumstances and situations
  • Meticulous attention to detail
  • Highly developed influencing and negotiating skills

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Registrant of the GPhC
  • Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
  • Non medical prescriber status

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Understanding and appreciation of local and national pharmaceutical and clinical strategies
  • Understanding of NHS/government policy and its applications
  • Skills around team dynamics and effective leadership strategies to optimise performance
  • Advanced clinical pharmacy knowledge in a relevant area (does not need to be Cancer/Haematology)

  Skills & behaviours

  Essential

  • Team player
  • Enthusiastic
  • Self motivated
  • Able to work under own initiative
  • Be highly adaptive to changing circumstances and situations
  • Meticulous attention to detail
  • Highly developed influencing and negotiating skills

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Registrant of the GPhC
  • Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
  • Non medical prescriber status

  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).

  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.

  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).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Leeds Teaching Hospitals

  Address

  St. James's University Hospital

  Beckett Street

  Leeds

  LS9 7TF

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Leeds Teaching Hospitals

  Address

  St. James's University Hospital

  Beckett Street

  Leeds

  LS9 7TF

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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