Assistant Technical Officer, Aseptic Services

Job description

Job responsibilities

Communication Skills1. To answer telephone and face to face queries of a routine or basic technical nature from a wide range of staff groups, in the pharmacy, referring appropriate queries to the relevant member of the pharmacy team when necessary.2. To assist in ensuring effective communication from ward staff to the appropriate member of the aseptic team.3. To assist in chasing up outstanding orders that have not been delivered4. To assist in reporting any out of stock items appropriately.5. Record errors identified during the course of day-to-day duties.

Analytical Skills1. To carry out routine duties including daily stock checks, stock returns, and maintenance of stock levels and checking expiry dates to ensure pharmaceutical waste is dealt with appropriately in a cost-effective manner.2. To assist with weekly stock and expiry date checks in the pharmacy store in accordance with department procedures to ensure correct storage and turnover of stock to maintain quality and potency. 3. To carry out, monitor and check the issuing, stock control, assembly and purchasing of medicines in accordance with safe systems of work.4. To receive drug deliveries into the pharmacy and to be responsible for checking the accuracy.5. To ensure all delivered stock is stored correctly and rotated in line with expiry dates to include fridge lines, inflammable liquids and cytotoxic drugs.6. To receive, check and store drug requisition orders from the pharmacy stores.7. To assist in the monitoring of fridge temperatures and any other specified equipment as required.8. Assist in the compilation of department statistics by sorting and filing paperwork 9. To assist in completing stock takes of all drugs10. To assist in ordering sharps bins, cytotoxic bins and IV giving sets.

Planning and Organising Skills1. Participate in recording in an accurate and timely manner all actions and details relating to cleaning, batch numbers and expiry dates and cleanroom activity.2. To assist in the delivery of prepared products to wards, ensuring correct storage and security.3. Assist in organising the delivery and tracking of prescriptions4. To ensure overall tidiness of the working area in the Pharmacy department and to dispose of waste according to department procedure.5. To assist in the dispatch of plates and swabs to Quality Control appropriately labelled and packaged.

Responsibility for Patient/Client Care1. To assist in the supply of medications according to prescriptions that have been clinically screened and verified by a pharmacist in accordance with the safe systems of work as described above.2. To dispense PN against prescriptions that have been clinically screened and verified by a pharmacist in accordance with the safe systems of work.3. To assist in the assembly of drugs and sterile equipment according to the product worksheet.4. To complete worksheet details including batch number and expiry in accordance with SOPs.5. To carry out the transfer of drugs and sterile equipment into sterile preparation area according to standard operating procedures (SOP).6. To label completed aseptically prepared products and outer containers and ensuring product segregation.7. To participate in specialised cleaning and disinfection of walls, floors, ceilings and all equipment within the cleanroom according to SOPs.8. To efficiently deal with any delivery requests from wards on a daily basis and in a timely manner to ensure best service to patient and follow up any outstanding orders/deliveries to the wards on a daily basis. 9. To follow regional guidelines for the receipt and quarantine of unlicensed specialist medicines.10. To dispense non-complex inpatient and outpatient prescriptions.11. To carry out routine procedures associated with the packaging of medicines including cytotoxic, CIVAS and PN following standard operating procedures.

Responsibility for Policy/Service Development1. To participate in the development of the Aseptic unit and / or service via meetings, feedback, participation with validation plans.

Responsibility for Financial & Physical Resources1. Accurately issue IV fluids and medicines against a worksheet to the correct ward and/or cost centre in a timely manner using the Pharmacy stock control system.2. To assist in stock control and rotation of the Quality Control agar plates and swabs used to perform environmental monitoring.3. To assist in replenishing the Pharmacy night room.4. To assist in the replenishment of and rotation of emergency boxes, spill kits and extravasation kits on the wards and departments.

Responsibility for Human Resources1. To assist in the training of new pharmacy assistants and student pharmacy technicians.

Responsibility for Information Resources1. To use the pharmacy computer system to issue, label and return medicines in accordance with level of training provided.2. To participate in generating appropriate labels using pharmacy IT computer software for Quality Control purposes.

Responsibility for Research and Development1. To participate in the dispensing of clinical trials and unlicensed medicines as required.

Person Specification

Education and Training

Essential

• Maths and Literacy skills

Experience

Essential

• oWorking accurately to standard operating procedures
• oBeing able to adapt to different computer packages
• Dealing with stock, stock rotation and storage

Desirable

• oPrevious working in a Pharmacy environment
• oHygiene and maintaining a clean working environment

Knowledge

Essential

• oWhat the post involves - general understanding
• Quality Control and what this involves

Desirable

• oWorking within a pharmacy aseptic unit.
• oExperience of hygiene and maintaining a clean working environment
• oClinical trials experience

Skills

Essential

• Good organisational skills and the ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Ability to work well within various teams
• Good time management skills
• Good interpersonal skills and telephone manner
• Good attention to detail and responsible attitude towards quality and accuracy.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Alder Hey Children's Hospital

East Prescot Road

West Derby

L14 5AB

Employer's website

https://alderhey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)