Clinical Trials Pharmacy Technician | Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Basingstoke
We have an exciting opportunity to develop your skills as a Specialist Pharmacy Technician for our expanding clinical trials service, workingclosely 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 of the Trust, with Clinical Trials Networks region and nationwide
All these can be discussed at interview.
- To 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).
- To ensure that the highest standards of clinical care are continuously delivered.
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Tackling Climate Change: Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, search HHFT Climate Action orcontactclimateaction@hhft.nhs.uk.- To work with the Research and Pharmacy Teams, and customers to ensure effective planning, scheduling, delivery and monitoring of service access, activity, and quality targets. To identify reasons for deviations and support the Research & Development Pharmacists with service development and implementation of potential solutions.
- To support the setting of quality standards within the service, including GCP and GMP where appropriate and clinical audit.
- To 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 customer’s needs in accordance with the study protocol, departmental and Trust guidelines.
- To receive returns of investigational medicinal products, ensuring all documentation is completed in accordance with the study protocol.
- To put into practice all pharmacy policies and standard operating procedures (SOPs) and, if suitable, suggest changes or modifications to improve the pharmaceutical service offered.
- To 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.
- To participate in business unit service level meetings.
- To 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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Feb 2025