Specialist Cancer Pharmacy Technician | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 June 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £32,073 - £39,043 per annum/ pro-rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 July 2026 |
| Location: | Oxford, OX3 7LE |
| Company: | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 8059250/321-SW-7790791-B5 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and proactive pharmacy technician to join the Cancer Pharmacy Team as a Band 5 Cancer Pharmacy Technician, at the Churchill Hospital and able to cover across sites.
The successful candidate will be highly motivated with excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills interested indeveloping leadership skills to support the Senior Pharmacy Technician. The Cancer Pharmacy Team is a large team covering the Churchill and Horton Hospitals and includes pharmacy assistants, technicians, pharmacist and admin.
The candidate ideally will have either a hospital pharmacy background, or with community pharmacy experience, wishing to make a change into the hospital environment, for which appropriate training will be provided. You must have successfully achieved the relevant units of pharmacy services skills, ideally NVQ level 3 (QCF) or an equivalent GPhC accredited training programme.
You will be part of the Medicine Management, Ward Based team primarily working to deliver exceptional pharmacy services directly to patients on wards and day treatment areas. You will provide medicine reconciliation, patient counselling and representing the Cancer Pharmacy Technical Team.
Some of the key roles include:
• Delivery of Medicine Management service to adult cancer in-patients, out-patients, and day case patients
• Pharmacy service to Day Treatment Units in Headington and Banbury.
• Patient counselling
• Being part of the dispensing process for labelling, dispensing and checking - if qualified
• Responding to enquiries and requests from staff, patients and carers and ensure appropriate and accurate information is readily available and to escalation questions to other members of the pharmacy team where appropriate.
• Opportunity to develop CPD
• Opportunity for attendance to the Annual British Oncology Pharmacy Association Conference on a rotational basis
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 the OUH YouTube channel.
Ward and Day Treatment Unit based role
1. To be part of the Pharmacy team providing a near-patient medicines management service to clinical areas.
2. To become an accredited Medicines Management Technician, or complete reaccreditation in order to transfer skills where appropriate.
3. To become accredited to assess PODs according to the Trust’s criteria.
4. To implement and maintain the POD scheme according to Trust policies.
5. To train nursing, medical and pharmacy staff regarding the POD scheme.
6. To become accredited to initiate the supply of non-stock items for one-stop/full pack dispensing.
7. To become accredited to complete medicines reconciliation using a variety of available sources.
8. To aid discharge planning in conjunction with the clinical pharmacist and ward staff.
9. To work with the clinical pharmacist and ward staff to support medicines management at ward level.
10. To become accredited to undertake patient counselling on selected patients e.g. warfarin initiation, inhaler counselling
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Jun 2026
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