Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity to develop your skills as a Specialist Pharmacy Technician for our expanding clinical trials service, working closely with our Clinical Research Network Wessex award-winning team. Clinical trials can be highly rewarding, offering insights to medical advances in treatment and professional development.
HHFT has a portfolio of over 100 trials, including commercial clinical trials. We currently support trials in Oncology, Cardiology, Microbiology, Rheumatology, Gastroenterology & Paediatrics.
We want to hear from you if you are passionate about making a positive contribution to the evidence base for the future care of patients.
What we look for:
• A Pharmacy Technician who values attention to detail & is computer literate
• Someone committed to providing the highest quality of research and care for patients
• A capable communicator, with skills in team working and self-direction
What we offer:
• Supportive and friendly teams, within Pharmacy and the Trust
• Opportunities for training and development, personal and professional
• Collaborative working within and outside of the Trust, with Clinical Trials Networks region and nationwide
Your life outside HHFT is important. We are happy to consider applications with flexible working patterns that cater to individual requirements and would consider supporting development for a candidate who may not meet all the essential criteria of the person specification. All these can be discussed at interview.
Main duties of the job
1. To support the Speciality Pharmacists (Research & Development, R&D) to develop, deliver and evaluate the Pharmacy Research & Development service within the Pharmacy Business Unit and Trust wide with respect to Medicines Management, in line with pharmacy service level agreements and objectives set by the Lead Pharmacist (R&D).
2. To ensure that the highest standards of clinical care are continuously delivered.
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Tackling Climate Change: Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, search or .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
3. To work with the Research and Pharmacy Teams, and customers to ensure effective planning, scheduling, delivery and monitoring of service access, activity, and quality targets. To identify reasons for deviations and support the Research & Development Pharmacists with service development and implementation of potential solutions.
4. To support the setting of quality standards within the service, including GCP and GMP where appropriate and clinical audit.
5. To dispense and check dispensed prescriptions for in and outpatients, and supply goods to the Trust and outside units, ensuring that medicines are issued in a timely manner to meet the customer’s needs in accordance with the study protocol, departmental and Trust guidelines.
6. To receive returns of investigational medicinal products, ensuring all documentation is completed in accordance with the study protocol.
7. To put into practice all pharmacy policies and standard operating procedures (SOPs) and, if suitable, suggest changes or modifications to improve the pharmaceutical service offered.
8. To actively participate in risk management within the clinical trials service, specifically using information from audits and inspections as well as incidents and complaints to learn and improve.
9. To participate in business unit service level meetings.
10. To assist new or less experienced colleagues of all levels to learn routine tasks within the pharmacy and R&D service to a standard set out in relevant SOPs.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
11. NVQ3 Pharmaceutical science or equivalent
12. Registration with GPhC as Pharmacy Technician
13. Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician qualification
Desirable criteria
14. ICH-GCP training
15. Current NVQ or NVQ1 assessor
Experience
Essential criteria
16. NHS Pharmacy experience
Desirable criteria
17. Experience in Research & Clinical Trials
Skills
Essential criteria
18. Computer literate
19. Evidence of team work
20. Written communication skills
21. Organization