Pre-Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

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The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre (CCC) provides excellent cancer care to patients in the North West (including North Wales and the Isle of Man). We have 3 site locations; the central Liverpool site and hub sites in the Wirral and Aintree. Inpatient services, including 2 wards, bone marrow transplant service and the regional Teenage and Young Adult unit (supported by the Teenage Cancer Trust) are located at our Liverpool site.

It is an exciting time for the Pharmacy Production unit at CCC-Liverpool, which has recently obtained an MHRA specials licence. The department is developing batch production through the use of VHP gassing Isolator technology. This has provided an exciting opportunity to fully train Pre-registration Pharmacy Technicians. It is important for the pharmacy department to develop pharmacy technicians within our large, diverse and friendly pharmacy team.

Salary Information: Annex 21 - 70% of Band 4 increases to 75% of Band 4 in YR 2

Main duties of the job

You will undertake training for this role, which will involve rotating through different pharmacy area's to gain knowledge, skills and competencies to gain a BTEC diploma in Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians Level 3. This role involves attending Bradford College live session in a virtual college classroom once a week and gain practical experience in pharmacy services under supervision of qualified assessors.

Working pattern will be 37.5 hours per week.

? Responsible for the day to day dispensing of aseptic preparations under the supervision of qualified technicians.? Attendance at college once a week for BTEC in pharmacy services andthe completion of an work based skills Level 3 portfolio in pharmacy services underdirect supervision of a qualified NVQ assessor in-house.? To participate in the dispensing of oral preparations including clinicaltrials under the supervision of a qualified technician.? To follow all standard operating procedures and health and safetypolicies of the pharmacy department and the trust.? Refer matters requiring expert advice to the appropriate pharmacists.? Attend such training courses from time to time as are deemed necessaryfor a comprehensive robust insight into cytotoxic reconstitution/medicinesmanagement/clinical trials.

About us

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's leading cancer centres providing highly specialist cancer care to a population of 2.4m people across Cheshire and Merseyside, and the surrounding areas, including North Wales and the Isle of Man.

Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do.

Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.

We are -

• Kind
• Empowered
• Responsible
• Inclusive