About the role
Are you good at practical tasks? Would you like a role in the NHS that prepares medicines for patients? Here we will fully train you to become an Aseptic Unit Pharmacy Assistant where your rewarding role will be to prepare a range of injectable medicines.
You will work as a member of a friendly, highly skilled team of people all working to deliver products that are consistently produced and controlled to a particular quality standard (Good Manufacturing Practice GMP).
You will have good literacy and numeracy skills and good dexterity to handle syringes and needles for accurate measurements of injections, working to procedures at all times. Pharmacy experience is not essential as full training for the role is provided.
The role requires you to work one evening per week until 7 pm and on bank holidays on a rota. You will prepare a wide range of injectable products such as chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, and antibiotics, using specialist equipment and working within clean rooms. Adhering to strict clothing and personal hygiene procedures is essential and you will have to meet the highest standards of discipline, attention to detail and clean‑room behaviours.
There is also the opportunity to work in other areas such as radioisotopes, oral medicines preparation, repacking and over‑labelling of tablets, and assembly of resuscitation boxes. Medicines are manufactured under the Trust’s ‘Specials’ Licence granted by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The manufacturing units operate under the name of Preston Pharmaceuticals (PP), and include Non‑Sterile Medicines Manufacture, Radiopharmacy and Aseptic Services, and an Extemporaneous Dispensing Service.
Working for our organisation
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area and give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria. Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely makes a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
Key responsibilities
* Communicate routine information effectively – verbally, in writing and where appropriate using electronic formats – with colleagues and internal staff on the manufacture of sterile products.
* Use technical and analytical skills to support several quality assurance aspects of the service.
* Follow a work plan but also work flexibly to support the changing priorities within the department on a day‑to‑day basis.
* Operate aseptic production, radio pharmacy and office equipment. Move and handle equipment and materials using agreed procedures.
* Contribute to error monitoring and document deviations via a non‑conformance form and errors via the Trust Datix incident reporting system in a timely manner.
* Follow Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and documented Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs); undertake duties involved in the aseptic manufacture of pharmaceutical products, including clean‑room gowning and cleaning, labelling, measuring, calculating and compounding.
Benefits
* Full and extensive training.
* A friendly and safe working environment (See our Trust Values).
* Staff support, Health and Wellbeing, occupational Health.
Equal opportunity statement
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post. Our Statement on the Recruitment of Ex‑Offenders is available here.
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