Job Title: Clinical Trials Pharmacy Technician
Job Location: Basingstoke, UK
Job Location Type: Hybrid
Job Contract Type: Contract
Job Seniority Level: Entry level
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 the Trust, with Clinical Trials Networks region and nationwide
Key Responsibilities
* 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).
* Ensure that the highest standards of clinical care are continuously delivered.
* Work with the Research and Pharmacy Teams, and customers to ensure effective planning, scheduling, delivery and monitoring of service access, activity, and quality targets; identify reasons for deviations and support the Research & Development Pharmacists with service development and implementation of potential solutions.
* Support the setting of quality standards within the service, including GCP and GMP where appropriate and clinical audit.
* 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 customers needs in accordance with the study protocol, departmental and Trust guidelines.
* Receive returns of investigational medicinal products, ensuring all documentation is completed in accordance with the study protocol.
* Put into practice all pharmacy policies and standard operating procedures (SOPs) and, if suitable, suggest changes or modifications to improve the pharmaceutical service offered.
* 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.
* Participate in business unit service level meetings.
* 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.
Working Arrangements
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.
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