Job summary
The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres with an international reputation for delivering excellence in cancer care, research, education and innovation. We are seeking an exceptional and visionary pharmacist to join our Haematology team as a Consultant Pharmacist - Haematology.

This newly credentialled senior leadership role offers a unique opportunity to transform the future of pharmaceutical care for patients with haematological malignancies leading and supporting innovation in systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT), and other novel therapies within the rapidly growing ATMP treatment landscape.

Working as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, the successful candidate will provide expert clinical leadership, advanced patient care, strategic service development and professional influence across haematology disease group services at the Trust and across the network. The post holder will deliver their own research and contribute to the wider research agenda.

We welcome applications from pharmacists who have commenced, but not yet completed, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Consultant pharmacist credentialling process and who can demonstrate substantial progress towards approval may be considered for an interim developmental appointment, pending completion of RPS credentialling.

If you are ready to take on a high-impact leadership role, advance haematology pharmacy practice and make a lasting difference to patients, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Main duties of the job
The postholder will provide strategic leadership for a high-quality professional clinical pharmacy team supporting haematology services, optimising access to medicines and improving the overall patient experience. The post holder will work in collaboration with the haematology disease group, the Trust's network services division, multidisciplinary clinical and researcher colleagues, and the Trust's designated commercial and outsourced service providers to develop and deliver an efficient, high quality, professional and well-coordinated service capable of meeting patients' clinical needs and all statutory, regulatory and NHS commissioning requirements relating to haematology services including services to other disease groups in respect of ATMPs only. The postholder will support service delivery for haematology patients across the Trust network including satellite sites and neighbourhood initiatives.

This will include provision of direct patient care to patients, as a non-medical prescriber with their own clinic caseload in addition to being responsible for the governance oversight of the Trust's Intrathecal Chemotherapy Policy and register.

Although the pharmacy service is based at The Christie Hospital main the postholder may be required to work at any location across the Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cancer Network. The Trust has a flexible working policy and, subject to service commitments, it may also be possible to support an element of working from home.

About us
The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, looking after more than 64,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 25% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We are the largest radiotherapy provider in the NHS with one in 20 treatments delivered at The Christie. We have up to 15 linear accelerators operating across our network of sites. We operate the largest chemotherapy unit in the UK on our main site and treatments are also provided at 13 other networked sites, and in patients homes. And as a specialist tertiary surgical centre, we focus on rare cancers, complex procedures, and multidisciplinary approaches to cancer surgery, specialising in colorectal, peritoneal, gynaecological, urological and plastic surgery.

We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We have been named by the UK's National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), as one of the best hospitals providing opportunities for patients to participate in clinical research studies, with more than 800 studies open at any time, caring for over 3,000 patients.

Closing date: 19 November 2026

Salary: £79,504 to £91,609 a year per annum, pro rata

Band: Band 8c

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 413-112030-CNS-SD

Job responsibilities

• Expert Professional Practice: be recognised as the pharmacy professional lead and expert clinical practitioner in support of the haematology disease group and the Trust's ATMP portfolio across all disease groups.
• Lead expert pharmacy support including the development of Trust policy, protocols and SOPs relating to haematology and ATMPs.
• Responsible for governance oversight of the Trust's Intrathecal Chemotherapy Policy and register.
• Responsible for the clinical pharmacy management of a caseload of patients in the haematology disease group under the clinical supervision of the lead consultant haematologist.
• Fulfil the role of Consultant Pharmacist, providing leadership for the pharmaceutical aspects of SACT, including ATMPs, across the Trust, guiding doctors and other prescribers in appropriate drug treatments in accordance with NICE guidance, Trust policy and other guidelines.
• Leadership and management: demonstrate active participation in creating national healthcare policies, identify and promote best practice, and work with local and national commissioners and stakeholders on innovative treatment pathways.
• Education, training and mentoring: contribute to national pharmacy workforce strategy, deliver specialist teaching and core training, and tutor and mentor clinical pharmacists undertaking postgraduate qualifications and pre-registration foundation year pharmacists.
• Research, evaluation and service development: lead on and participate in clinical audits, quality improvement projects and treatment protocols for SACT across the local cancer network, and design, plan and supervise multidisciplinary and pharmacy-led audit and research.
• Statutory professional responsibilities: practise within the professional boundaries described by the General Pharmaceutical Council and undertake annual professional revalidation.
• HR, management and organisational tasks: lead and clinically supervise the haematology disease group clinical pharmacists and medicines management technicians, including line management of the 8B principal pharmacist.
• Risk and governance: develop strategies for risk assessment and mitigation, and ensure complaints and adverse incidents are investigated and used as learning.
• Responsibility for financial resources: support budgetary control for relevant pharmacy cost centres and lead horizon scanning, prescribing trends and medicines expenditure forecasting.

Person specification
Essential qualifications

• Masters degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
• Pharmacist registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
• Independent Prescriber in advanced oncology pharmacy practice with previous experience of managing SACT and ATMPs for haematology patients, including training and supervision of other advanced pharmacists
• Meet the requirements of the RPS Faculty cancer care expert professional practice curriculum
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
• Membership of the British Oncology Pharmacy Association, with SACT passport for clinical screening of prescriptions
• Demonstrated ability to work at Doctorate level
• Credentialed as a consultant pharmacist with the RPSGB (or consultant-ready awaiting appointment to an approved post)

Desirable qualifications

• Post graduate qualification in Clinical Oncology, HaemOnc, or Clinical Research
• Management, leadership or quality improvement training
• DPharm, PhD or undertaking study at doctorate level

Essential experience and skills

• Extensive (minimum 5 years') clinical pharmacy experience within cancer services and haematology oncology, including management of ATMPs, haematopoietic stem cell transplants and JACIE accreditation
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Highly developed leadership skills and proven experience of working at a strategic level
• Ability to work in a pressured environment with an unpredictable workload

Other requirements

• Required to work unsocial hours on a rota basis, including evenings, weekends, Bank Holidays and on-call
• Required to work at any site that treats Christie patients across the local cancer network

Desirable

• Driving licence and access to a car

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check. Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker sponsorship are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Employer: The Christie NHS FT
Website: https://www.christie.nhs.uk/
Contact: John Landers, Director of Pharmacy, John.landers1@nhs.net, 07929065449

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