Pharmacy Chemo Coordinator | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	05 August 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£24,937 - £26,598 per annum pro rata
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	04 September 2025
Location:	Oxford, OX3 7LE
Company:	Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7231879/321-SW-7231879-B3-PUB

Summary

Are you looking for a career where you can really make a difference and at the same time learn valuable new skills? Our administrative staff provide essential support to the clinical teams striving to ensure the patients’ experience is what we would expect for our own family and friends. We understand and value the contribution of administrative staff in our teams and we invest in training and development to make sure our staff are equipped with the right skills and knowledge.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our administrative team within our Cancer Pharmacy Team. This pivotal role is key to ensuring that the correct chemotherapy drugs are available in time for the patient to receive chemotherapy treatment. You will need to possess good communication and interpersonal skills as an important element to this role is the liaison between pharmacists, clinicians and the drug suppliers. This busy role will require you to be highly organised, have attention to detail and possess the ability to work individually as well as part of a larger team. If you would like to make a positive contribution to a patient’s care experience, then we would like to hear from you.

As a member of the Pharmacy team you will provide comprehensive administrative support using our software packages, EPR and ARIA, to ensure that our cancer patients are able to receive their chemotherapy on time.

You will liaise between clinicians and pharmacists ensuring that chemotherapy prescriptions have been updated and signed off in a timely manner.

You will participate in cover arrangements of any member of the team, for training, annual leave or sick leave, as required and possibly across sites.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.

In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to theten core principles

Oxford University Hospitalspromotes a safe, respectful hiring environment.

If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.


1. Use electronic software packages (egARIA,electronic patient records) to co-ordinate the screening and delivery of chemotherapy and support medications. Ensuring patients prescriptions are prescribed, screened, and either dispensed or sent to third party providers, withina timelymanner and in line withpatients’treatment dates and department procedures.

1. To respond topatients’queries ina timelyand professional manner andmaintaincomposure at all timeswhen dealing with emotionally distressed patients and their relatives.

1. Be proactive in liaising with doctors and pharmacists, by communicating effectively toensure that all chemotherapy is prescribed and screened withina timelymanner and in line with department guidelines.

1. Liaise daily with pharmacists,technician teamand external chemotherapy providersto ensure efficient service delivery.

1. Work with pharmacy, DTU staff and external providers to minimise wastage.

1. Attend meetings asrequiredto ensure awareness of any potential medications that need chasing up and followingthese up.

1. Support Pharmacy with database input and with any audits that need to be undertaken.

1. To have a clear understanding of our policies and procedures and toparticipatein the implementation of department policies and service development.

1. Tocomply withthe requirements of the Data Protection Act, Access to Health Records and legislation issued in relation to confidential data.

1. Maintain key links and good working relationships with all staff across sites and external providers.


1. Toparticipatein cover arrangements of Pharmacy Chemo Coordinator roles during leave/training etc andpotentially work on another site.Toparticipatein cover arrangements ofthe CancerPharmacyAssistantasappropriate.




This advert closes on Tuesday 19 Aug 2025

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