Velindre Cancer Service is seeking Consultant Pharmacist in Oncology to provide senior clinical leadership in the design, establishment, and delivery of a new CDK4/6 inhibitor clinic for patients receiving long-term systemic anticancer therapies (SACT) for Breast Cancer.
This senior post represents a strategic opportunity to shape advanced pharmacy practice within oncology, embedding medicines expertise into outpatient care pathways and supporting sustainable service models in a multidisciplinary team. This post is undergoing approval by the Royal College of Pharmacy as a Consultant pharmacist-level post.
As CDK4/6 inhibitor Clinic Lead, you will take clinical, professional and service responsibility for a new oncology service, working in partnership with oncologists, nursing teams and the wider MDT. The role will combine advanced clinical practice with service leadership and transformation.
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities include:
* Establishing and leading the CDK4/6 inhibitor clinic
* Independent prescribing and advanced toxicity management
* Development of pathways, SOPs, governance and monitoring frameworks
* Leadership in medicines optimisation for SACT
* Using audit, outcomes data and patient experience to drive continuous improvement and demonstration of service value
* Acting as a senior pharmacy voice within tumour site and service-level MDTs
This role offers a genuine opportunity to redefine how pharmacy contributes to long-term cancer treatment and survivorship care.
You will be an established oncology or haemato-oncology pharmacist with the confidence and credibility to operate at senior level, and the ambition to lead service change. You will bring:
Consultant-level experience and practice in SACT
Significant experience of independent prescribing
Experience of service development, advanced & consultant-level practice and clinic-based care
Strong leadership, influencing and communication skills
A commitment to innovation, governance and patient-centred care
NOTE : There will be some circumstances where current staff apply for these posts, and their new salary will be below that of their current salary. To aid both the recruitment and development of staff it is recommended that staff across NHS Wales should have continuity of pay for the duration of the training to avoid financial detriment; this should apply when staff take up training posts both within and across NHS Wales organisations. Following this training, the remuneration will be the bottom of Band 8b, again without financial detriment.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
* To ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times.
* To be professionally accountable for actions and advice
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
* Accredited at consultant level or able to be completed within 18 months of appointment
* Evidence of leadership development
* Membership of relevant professional group e.g. RPS and BOPA
Skills
* Able to demonstrate an intuitive grasp of complex situations based on deep tacit understanding
* Proven budget management or monitoring ability and demonstrable success in achieving savings
* Proven medicines related policy development and implementation
* Proven experience of managing and developing a service with limited resources
* Negotiating and influencing skills
* Shapes direction of professional group
* Demonstrable experience of change management at a pharmacy leve
Experience
* Appropriate advanced and current clinical experience in oncology/cancer haematology specialty
* Proven experience of working at a strategic level with senior clinicians and managers and experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
* Proven experience of working at a strategic level across the wider health community
* Recognition as an expert nationally through publications / presentations or officer in a national group
* Formal teaching / training/ mentoring training
* Understanding of NHS finances
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.
£67,583 to £78,530 a year per annum Annex 21
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