Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (weekend, bank holiday and late night duties on a rota basis)
- Job ref
- 190-7807-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northern General Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pa/pro rata for part-time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Pharmacy Technician - Clinical Trials
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
We are offering an exciting opportunity for suitable applicants to join the pharmacy clinical trials team at the Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The Clinical Trials team is expanding its workforce to increase research at Sheffield teaching hospitals. The Trust is one of the busiest and most successful NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK.
Are you interested in entering the world of research? Do you want to contribute to evidence based practice? If yes, then this role offers you the chance to make a real difference to the delivery of research and gain valuable experience in clinical trials.
The successful applicant will be supporting the Pharmacy Clinical Trials team in the delivery of a diverse portfolio of both commercially and non-commercially sponsored studies. Ensuring all current legislation, MHRA guidelines and Good Clinical Practice standards are met. Improving patient care through research and innovation is vital to everything we do. The post holder must be able to work with medical and nursing staff and other health care professionals.
Main duties of the job
- To participate in the planning, organisation, provision and maintenance of the clinical trials service and to be part of the flexible working team in line with current departmental policies and procedures for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, current UK and EU legislation.
- To remain part of the dispensary late night and week-end rota and Bank Holiday working arrangements.
- The pharmacy provides a comprehensive array of services with the overall aim of ensuring safe, effective and economical use of medicines throughout the Trust.
- The main focus of our role involves applying our extensive pharmaceutical knowledge to ensure that medicines are used in the most effective and appropriate way as well as reducing the incidence of any unwanted side effects.
- Pharmacy has a Trust-wide responsibility for ensuring high quality medicines management and safe and secure storage of medicines.
Working for our organisation
About us
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. It is an energetic and vibrant organisation that places patients and staff at the heart of everything they do. We provide a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Sheffield, as well as specialist care for patients from further afield, including cancer, spinal cord injuries, renal and cardiothoracic services.
As a teaching hospital, we have a great commitment to education, training, and development of staff, including undergraduates from many professions. You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it services. The NHS offers a wide range of benefits including pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance and career, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.
A Great place to live and work!
Located on rolling hills and dissected by river valleys, Sheffield is one of the greenest and most wooded cities in Europe. More than a third of the city lies inside the beautiful Peak District National Park, and it is virtually surrounded by open countryside. Its central location and excellent transport links also mean it is less than two hours from most major metropolitan areas.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 3 or BTEC level 3 Diploma in Pharmaceutical Sciences (or equivalent)
- Current GPhC Registration (Pharmacy Technician)
- Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) qualification or working towards (ACPT) qualification
Desirable criteria
- Specialist technical / management modules or equivalent experience in aseptic preparation
- Practice supervisor, Train the trainer or equivalent qualification
- ILM level 3 Leadership and Management qualification or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven experience of good performance in previous posts
- Previous significant experience of working in clinical trials
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working within service development projects
- Experience in supervising staff within pharmacy
- Extensive hospital pharmacy technician experience working in clinical trials
- Experience of working in oncology
Desirable criteria
- Dispensing for clinical trials experience
- Hospital pharmacy aseptics experience
- Managing staff experience
Special Skills/Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- GCP training
- Knowledge of all aspects of current GCP and clinical trial trial legislation
- Knowledge of current legislation relevant to pharmacy practice, e.g., controlled drugs, Health and Safety at Work
- Understanding of stock control systems
- Knowledge of Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines requirements
- Able to handle hazardous materials safely according to local procedures
- Understanding of the importance of adherence to SOPs and legislation
- Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
- Have excellent communication skills; non-verbal, verbal and written, in order to communicate with a broad spectrum of people (healthcare professionals, pharmaceutical industry, research organisations and members of the public)
- Demonstrates ability to answer complex enquiries
- Has excellent IT skills including email, word processing, spreadsheets, accurate data entry and various applications such as temperature monitoring, electronic prescribing and specialist pharmacy computer systems.
- Good numeracy skills, able to perform pharmaceutical calculations
- Able to complete documentation accurately with attention to detail
- Able to participate in accurate preparation and dispensing of medicines
- Able to check the work of others, identifying discrepancies and ensuring corrections are made
- Demonstrates ability to supervise processes and identify deviations
- Demonstrates organisation skills
- Demonstrates good time management skills; i.e. able to plan, co-ordinate and balance conflicting priorities
- Able to work and work accurately under pressure and to a deadline
- Able to work independently and have own accountability for professional actions
- Able to work as part of a team
- Demonstrates ability to write standard operating procedures
- Able to develop and implement policies
- Able to motivate self and others
- Evidence of good working relationships across multi-disciplinary boundaries
- Able to deal with difficult, angry, annoyed healthcare colleagues
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates knowledge of all aspects of GMP and QA
- Understanding of development opportunities available to pharmacy technicians
- Experience of handling cytotoxic drugs
- Working knowledge of Chemocare
- Demonstrates effective persuasive skills
- Demonstrates ability to delegate effectively
- Demonstrates ability to analyse complex management information e.g. workload and error reports
- Has attended appropriate short management courses e.g. Appraisal training, Leadership skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Esther Whanya
- Job title
- Pharmacy Clinical Trials Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01142713840
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