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- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Highly Specialist Oncology Clinical Trials Pharmacist
Accepting applications until: 02-Nov-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 02-Nov-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guy's Hospital
- Address
- Great Maze Pond
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 9RT
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 pa inc. H.C.A.
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- OHCT Pharmacy
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
The Highly Specialist Oncology Clinical Trials Pharmacist provides expert leadership and oversight of pharmacy services for oncology and haematology clinical trials (OHCT) at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT). Working jointly with the Early Phase Lead Clinical Trials Pharmacist, the post holder ensures compliance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP), manages pharmaceutical aspects of trials, evaluates cost-effectiveness, and supports the safe and efficient delivery of investigational medicines. The role also contributes to research governance, service development, and staff training.
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Leadership & Service Management: Lead pharmacy support for oncology and haematology clinical trials, including trial setup, approval, and delivery.
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Compliance & Governance: Ensure adherence to GCP, GMP, and relevant UK/EU legislation for investigational medicinal products.
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Clinical Practice: Provide expert pharmaceutical care to trial patients, offering specialist advice to clinicians, investigators, and research staff.
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Training & Development: Deliver and evaluate training for pharmacy and research staff involved in clinical trials.
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Financial & Resource Management: Assess cost implications and oversee invoicing, contracts, and resource allocation for trials.
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Quality & Evaluation: Monitor performance, lead audits, prepare reports, and support regulatory inspections.
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Research & Innovation: Contribute to clinical research, audit, and the development of new protocols, guidelines, and best practices.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 25,300 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see Job Description for full list of main responsibilities.
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Provide joint leadership for oncology and haematology clinical trial pharmacy services at GSTT.
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Manage setup, approval, and delivery of new and ongoing clinical trials.
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Ensure safe, efficient, and cost-effective dispensing and record-keeping for investigational products.
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Monitor service quality, undertake audits, and prepare reports on performance and compliance.
- Liaise with research and development teams, investigators, and sponsors to evaluate trial feasibility and financial viability
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Train and supervise pharmacy and OHCT staff, maintaining high professional standards and accountability.
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Contribute to national initiatives and represent GSTT at professional and research forums.
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Promote research, innovation, and the integration of evidence-based practice into clinical trials.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on the UK Government website.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications/Education
Essential criteria
- UK-MPharm degree or equivalent
- Current GPhC registration
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of providing pharmaceutical input into clinical trials services
- Demonstrate attendance at relevant ICH/GCP training
- Demonstrate an understanding of the clinical trial process, with regard to the setting up and the documentation required to meet legislative requirements
- Demonstrate knowledge of Clinical Trials legislation
- Dispensing and checking experience in dispensary and aseptic/technical services
- Previous experience in delivering training and education at post graduate level
- Experience of multidisciplinary health services research
- Experience in management of pharmacy staff in a dispensing or technical services department
- Demonstrable use of clinical audit to improve practice
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of clinical audit and it’s role in pharmacy and medicine
- Demonstration of active participation in multi-disciplinary health care research
Skills/Knowledge/Ability
Essential criteria
- Meets set targets
- Ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management
- The ability to identify and prioritise clinical work
- Understanding of national and local priorities
- The ability to identify and manage risks
- Can work autonomously
- Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and skills
- Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement
- Enhances the quality of patient care
- Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the Clinical Governance Agenda/Identifies own training needs
Desirable criteria
- Identifies a vision for the delivery of pharmaceutical services
- Identifies and implements best practice
- Can demonstrate innovation
- Demonstrated ability to influence practice at a directorate level
- Ability to identify and prioritise clinical pharmacy services
- Demonstration of the ability to reconcile national priorities with local realities
- The ability to evaluate service quality
- Manages difficult and ambiguous problems
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mai Worthington
- Job title
- OHCT Operations Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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