# Lead Clinical Trials Pharmacist

**Company**: East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
**Location**: Northwood
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £57528.00 to £64750.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are recruiting for a Lead Clinical Trials Pharmacist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The successful candidate will lead clinical trials pharmacy at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), giving cancer patients access to new treatments through safe, efficient trial delivery.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading and developing the Trust's clinical trials pharmacy service

- Acting as the first point of contact for new trials, driving timely set-up and recruitment

- Ensuring compliance with UK clinical trials legislation, GCP, and research governance

- Managing Investigational Medicinal Products (IMPs) on all Trust sites

- Advising investigators on trial design, costing, and formulation

- Providing specialist clinical pharmacy support to cancer patients

- Line-managing the Specialist Pharmacist and Clinical Trials Support Technicians

The ideal candidate will be a GPhC-registered pharmacist with a postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy (or equivalent), substantial hospital experience including oncology, experience of managing clinical trials or IMPs, financial awareness, and proven leadership skills.

We offer professional development and the chance to shape research at Mount Vernon.

**Main duties of the job**

- Lead the Trust's pharmacy clinical trials service and be the first point of contact for new trials, ensuring timely set-up and recruitment.

- Act as Lead Pharmacist for compliance with UK clinical trials legislation, GCP, and research governance, including sponsor audits and MHRA inspections.

- Ensure the safe management of Investigational Medicinal Products (IMPs) on all Trust sites, including unlicensed medicines.

- Advise investigators on trial design, feasibility, costing, and formulation.

- Maintain SOPs, implement trial amendments on time, and build trial protocols on the electronic prescribing system.

**About us** East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust runs several hospitals, including The Lister Hospital, New Queen Elizabeth II, Hertford County, and Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC).

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £57,528 to £64,750 per annum + 15% HCA

- Agenda for Change pay scheme

- Band 8a

- Permanent, full-time position

**Requirements**

- Masters degree MPharm (or equivalent)

- Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council

- Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

- Evidence of continuing professional development

- Up-to-date Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training

- Relevant post-registration experience within hospital pharmacy, including oncology

- Experience of managing and supplying Investigational Medicinal Products (IMPs) within an NHS pharmacy clinical trials service

- Effective communication skills, verbal and written

- Good presentation skills

- Ability to influence and negotiate with medical, nursing, research, and pharmacy staff and external organisations

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## Skills

### Required
- Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
- clinical trials legislation
- research governance
- Investigational Medicinal Products (IMPs) management
- leadership
- communication
- presentation
- influence
- negotiation

### Nice to have
- Independent prescriber
- Member of the RPS faculty, Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Member of British Oncology Pharmacy Association (BOPA)
- Management or leadership qualification
- Qualification or formal training in research methodology or clinical trials

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