Clinical Trials Pharmacy Assistant

Job summary

Pharmacy Clinical Trials Assistant

Fairfield General Hospital and Royal Oldham Hospital

Band 3

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a proactive and enthusiastic individual to join the Clinical Trials Team at Royal Oldham Hospital and Fairfield General Hospital in a Pharmacy Clinical Trials Assistant role.

You will be provided with constant support from members of the clinical trials team within the role and are expected to be an active member of the team and also work on your own initiative. An interest in clinical trials and research is required but previous experience within a related role is not essential.

Main duties of the job

Experience of dispensing prescriptions within a hospital pharmacy setting and in the process of or already completed an NVQ2 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent is essential.

Within the role, you will facilitate monitoring visits by external clinical trial sponsors and ensure quality of pharmacy site files are maintained in preparation for monitoring visits. Deal with clinical trial stock, in regards to patient returns, expired stock and destruction of investigational medicinal products (IMPs) appropriately, following clinical trial procedures. You will be responsible for temperature monitoring of IMPs across sites and ensuring any excursions are managed appropriately and efficiently. You will need to respond promptly to receive deliveries across the three sites of the North East Sector of the Northern Care Alliance. To help improve the clinical trials service, you will be involved in audit data collection and reporting.

An important aspect of the role will be to train dispensary based staff on the background and procedures for dispensing clinical trial prescription. You will need to be meticulous in recording and updating clinical trial related data.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.