Overview
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Manage all technical activities of the Aseptic Unit, including stock control, receipt of prescription/orders, technical aspects of cytotoxic, monoclonal antibody, parenteral nutrition, aseptic manufacturing and dispensing, costing, delivery of prepared items, and allocation of staff within the Aseptic Unit.
* Actively work with nursing and medical teams to ensure timely supply of patient treatment as part of a multidisciplinary team.
* Ensure safe practice and risk management principles are adhered to within aseptic services and where necessary, work closely with Quality Control and the Accountable Pharmacist to achieve this.
* Ensure the quality and safety of medicines prepared in the Aseptic Unit, under the advice of the Authorised Pharmacist responsible at the time for aseptic services.
* Advise clinical staff on matters relating to aseptically dispensed items, including reference to patient records retained within the department, when required.
* Produce and maintain quality standards, records and procedures and be responsible for ensuring all documentation for the Aseptic Unit including Pharmacy SOPs and worksheets are maintained and updated appropriately.
* Participate in regular audits and external inspections of aseptic services by the MHRA and Regional Quality Assurance specialists.
* Ensure that the Aseptic Unit and all associated equipment is maintained in safe working order. Ensure that the appropriate cleaning, disinfection, monitoring and validation of equipment and clean room facility is maintained.
* Ensure operational plans for the pharmacy aseptic services e.g. rotas are arranged in advance by the Senior Technician Aseptic Services or delegate. To have oversight of potential problems, ensuring they are resolved appropriately and in a timely manner.
* Liaise with the Aseptic Services Accountable Pharmacist, ensuring all aspects of the pharmacy aseptic service are operating safely, monitoring capacity and responding to service needs appropriately.
* Ensure all staff working within Aseptic Services undertake and complete training to the required standard, with respect to aseptic procedures, safe systems of working and GMP. Ensure all operators undertake the necessary revalidations. Undertake regular reviews with the Senior Technician Aseptic Services to obtain performance and compliance reports, initiating action plans where necessary. This includes mandatory training compliance across the team.
* Support the Associate Director of Pharmacy - Cancer, Technical Services and Clinical Trials with reviewing establishment and skill mix of the Aseptic Pharmacy workforce, proactively reviewing and reporting recommendations. Support and lead on relevant recruitment.
* Support the creation and maintenance of Aseptic Services KPIs, being responsible for the accountability of performance against these metrics.
For further details please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
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Experience
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Knowledge
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Skills
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Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
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To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trusts Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trusts Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.
In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.
UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.
If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and well ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.
We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.
Depending on you level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.
All correspondence will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk/SPAM folders
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
* Job Description and Personal Specification (PDF, 696.3KB)
* Welcoming Candidates with Disability (PDF, 371.7KB)
* Candidate Information (PDF, 736.7KB)
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