Job summary
An exciting opportunity has become available for an enthusiastic and motivated Pharmacy Technician to join our dynamic and supportive Pharmacy Clinical Trials team at Whittington Health.
In this role, you will play a key part in the delivery and management of clinical trials, ensuring compliance with standard operating procedures, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), and relevant regulatory standards. This is an ideal position for someone with strong attention to detail, organisational and interpersonal skills who is looking to make a real impact in a research-focused environment.
You will be part of a collaborative team that works closely with pharmacy colleagues and multi-disciplinary teams across the Trust and wider region. As part of a forward-thinking and diverse pharmacy department, you will also have the opportunity to contribute to ongoing service improvements and support the expansion of research activity across the Trust.
At the Whittington, we are committed to innovation and continuous development in how we deliver care, ensuring our services are always focused on the best outcomes for our patients
Main duties of the job
- Support the management of clinical pharmacy services at Whittington Health.
- Be responsible for Investigational Medicinal Product (IMP) management, including receipt, dispensing, handing out, returns, temperature excursion reports, and any other activities deemed appropriate by the Clinical Trials Specialist Pharmacist.
- Ensure that IMPs for clinical trials are managed according to regulatory requirements, standard operating procedures and Good Clinical Practice.
- Develop and review departmental clinical trial work and standard operating procedures.
- Identify and manage risks associated with the use of IMPs in clinical trials.
- Work with members of the Pharmacy Clinical Trials Team and Research and Development (R&D) team to review and assess operational and clinical resources needed to open and run clinical trials.
- Attend site initiation visits, sponsor monitoring visits, and close out visits.
- Support the Aseptic team in the management of Oncology, Haematology and other clinical trials related to their clinical areas.
- Formulate and recover pharmacy charges for clinical trials.
- Support gathering and reporting of KPI information for benchmarking and identify any variations or concerns for discussion with Pharmacy Senior Team and R&D Team.
- Provide written and oral information to patients regarding how and when they should take medications as part of a clinical trial protocol.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) Great Britain or an equivalent EU body
- Level 3 NVQ (QCF) Diploma Pharmacy Service Skills or SVQ Pharmacy Services.
- Level 3 National Certificate in Pharmacy Services, or Diploma Pharmaceutical Science or Level 3 knowledge base programme (Or equivalent qualification
Desirable
- Accredited for final prescription checking, or willing to undertake training for accreditation
- GCP qualification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Good written and oral communication skills. Able to communicate with patients and all grades of healthcare staff (verbally and in writing)
- Prioritisation, excellent time management, the ability to plan and execute long-term projects and maintain multiple projects at once
- Computer literate and able to demonstrate a good depth of ability to use excel, word programmes
- Good interpersonal skills
- Confident & assertive when dealing with other professionals
- Demonstrates ability to organise and prioritise workload including when under pressure.
- Good problem-solving skills
- Excellent numeracy skills and analysis and interpretation of data
- Ability to identify and manage risk.
Desirable
- Experience of providing education and training to pharmacy staff, nursing staff and doctors
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing training to pharmacy staff
- Experience of liaising and interacting with nursing and medical staff and other healthcare professionals
- Experience of dealing with patients and the public
Desirable
- Experience of working with clinical trials
- Good understanding of Good Clinical Practice
- Experience of being in a Medicines Management role e.g. Assessment of Patients own medicines, drug history taking, medicines reconciliation
- Knowledge of CMM computer system
- Previous experience of conducting audit / project work
- Working knowledge/experience of writing SOPs
- Understanding of Quality Improvement principles and methodology
- Minimum of 2 years' work experience (post qualification) as a qualified Pharmacy Technician to include hospital roles
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Reliable
- Self-motivated
- Able to work under pressure whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to motivate self and others
- Able to work on own initiative and as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Demonstrates initiative, innovation, and motivation & enthusiasm for the post
- Commitment to Continuing Professional Development.
- Excellent communication skills
- Confidence working with the wider MDT
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) Great Britain or an equivalent EU body
- Level 3 NVQ (QCF) Diploma Pharmacy Service Skills or SVQ Pharmacy Services.
- Level 3 National Certificate in Pharmacy Services, or Diploma Pharmaceutical Science or Level 3 knowledge base programme (Or equivalent qualification
Desirable
- Accredited for final prescription checking, or willing to undertake training for accreditation
- GCP qualification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Good written and oral communication skills. Able to communicate with patients and all grades of healthcare staff (verbally and in writing)
- Prioritisation, excellent time management, the ability to plan and execute long-term projects and maintain multiple projects at once
- Computer literate and able to demonstrate a good depth of ability to use excel, word programmes
- Good interpersonal skills
- Confident & assertive when dealing with other professionals
- Demonstrates ability to organise and prioritise workload including when under pressure.
- Good problem-solving skills
- Excellent numeracy skills and analysis and interpretation of data
- Ability to identify and manage risk.
Desirable
- Experience of providing education and training to pharmacy staff, nursing staff and doctors
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing training to pharmacy staff
- Experience of liaising and interacting with nursing and medical staff and other healthcare professionals
- Experience of dealing with patients and the public
Desirable
- Experience of working with clinical trials
- Good understanding of Good Clinical Practice
- Experience of being in a Medicines Management role e.g. Assessment of Patients own medicines, drug history taking, medicines reconciliation
- Knowledge of CMM computer system
- Previous experience of conducting audit / project work
- Working knowledge/experience of writing SOPs
- Understanding of Quality Improvement principles and methodology
- Minimum of 2 years' work experience (post qualification) as a qualified Pharmacy Technician to include hospital roles
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Reliable
- Self-motivated
- Able to work under pressure whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to motivate self and others
- Able to work on own initiative and as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Demonstrates initiative, innovation, and motivation & enthusiasm for the post
- Commitment to Continuing Professional Development.
- Excellent communication skills
- Confidence working with the wider MDT
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
