Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and forward thinking Pharmacist to join our Breast Cancer service at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC). This role forms part of a reorganisation of oncology pharmacy services, designed to strengthen clinical support across the Breast Cancer pathways. We seek an experienced clinician ready to work at an advanced level within a leading regional Cancer Centre.

The successful candidate will provide high quality, patient‑centred clinical pharmacy input, supporting the safe and effective delivery of systemic anti‑cancer therapy (SACT) and contributing to the multidisciplinary management of breast cancer patients. Based at the Freeman Hospital, the NCCC delivers comprehensive SACT services, with modern inpatient facilities, a busy SACT day unit, supportive therapy services and an ambulatory care unit.

This post offers an excellent opportunity to develop advanced oncology pharmacy skills and play a key role in shaping how pharmacy supports breast cancer care within the reorganised service model.

• Interview Date Friday 06 February 2026
• 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

In this role, you will act as the pharmacy lead for breast cancer, providing specialist clinical pharmacy input across outpatient, day case and inpatient settings. You will be responsible for supporting all aspects of SACT, including verification, regimen management, toxicity assessment and ensuring medicines are used safely, appropriately and effectively. You will work closely with consultants, specialist nurses and wider MDT members, attending consultant‑led ward rounds, multidisciplinary team meetings and providing expert advice to support complex treatment planning.

You will contribute to oncology clinical trials activity, supporting first‑in‑human through to late phase studies, and play a key role in maintaining and developing the regional chemotherapy electronic prescribing system (Chemo Care), for which the Trust is the hub site. You will also lead and participate in service development, quality improvement, audit and clinical governance within oncology pharmacy. Education, training and clinical supervision of pharmacy colleagues and other healthcare professionals will form an important part of the role.

As part of the 7‑day cancer clinical pharmacy service, you will provide specialist cover for cancer inpatient wards and support the Chemotherapy Day Unit to ensure safe and timely delivery of treatment.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting‑edge care (supported by state‑of‑the‑art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit:
Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

• Date posted: 14 January 2026
• Pay scheme:
  Agenda for change
• Band: 8a
• Salary: £55,690 to £62,682 a year per annum
• Contract:
  
  Permanent
• Working pattern:
  Full‑time
• Reference number: 317‑2025‑51‑034
• Job location(s):
  Freeman Hospital (317 01 Freeman Hospital, NE7 7DN
  )