Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 190-8740-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Hallamshire Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 pa/pro rata for part-time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/02/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 26/02/2025
Employer heading
Principal Technician - Aseptic Services 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 looking for an enthusiastic and innovative and self motivated individual to join our expanding pharmacy aseptic services/clinical trials team. The team at Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust comprises of approximately 500 pharmacy staff working across five sites and is one of the biggest pharmacy departments in the country.
Principal Technicians work with the Accountable Pharmacist, Chief Technician, and Specialist Pharmacists to ensure the CIVAS service is delivered efficiently, safely and meets or exceeds are relevant quality standards.
You will 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.
Principal Technicians act as role models and manage their own team of staff and therefore are expected to demonstrate excellent working knowledge of aseptic services, clinical trials and exhibit exemplary PROUD values.
As a Principal Technician you must be driven, enthusiastic, flexible and dependable. You are required to have excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to work independently and as part of a wider MDT. Ideal candidates should be able to demonstrate leadership skills within a hospital pharmacy setting, as well as effective organisational and communication skills.
Main duties of the job
- Be responsible for the day to day management of aseptic dispensing services to maximise efficiency and product quality
- To deliver a quality aseptic dispensing service.
- To implement developments within aseptic services to meet the needs of the patient, and to work towards the standardisation of aseptic services Trust-wide.
- To develop, train and motivate staff ensuring they feel valued both for their contribution to the department and as individuals.
- Provide highly specialist technical expertise in the preparation of injectable medicines
Working for our organisation
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. Known as the outdoor city, it is a lovely place to make your home.
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is an excellent leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
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
- NVQ3, BTEC in pharmaceutical science or equivalent level
- Leeds University Aseptic Preparation of Medicines (APDM) short course, or be willing to undertake
- Current GPhC Registration
- Evidence of CPD
- Aseptic BTEC or PTQA certificate or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Accredited checking technician
- Management Qualification
- NIHR GCP Training
Special Skills/Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate effectively complex and sensitive information with members of the public and other health care professionals.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team and with staff at all levels.
- Ability to use own initiative to manage a team to prioritise and organise complex daily tasks, adapting where necessary in response to changing demands
- Ability to work within narrow margins of error
- Demonstrate the ability to work under pressure whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail
- Demonstrate the ability to work under pressure accurately.
- Good IT skills including understanding of Microsoft Office packages
- Demonstrate the ability to clearly and accurately complete routine and complex documentation and calculations
- Ability to maintain quality standards as per SOP
- Ability to train/coach/teach tasks to other staff including pharmacy assistants and technicians
- Ability to work to set procedures
- Ability to stock control
- Ability to work without direct supervision
Desirable criteria
- Ability to review protocols and pharmacy manuals and provide technical advice.
- Ability to create worksheets and write dispensing guides for individual clinical trial studies
Further Training
Essential criteria
- Advanced computer keyboard skills.
- H&S training, knowledge of handling hazardous chemicals according to local SOP.
- Management training on policies and procedures, equal opportunities, IPR, etc.
- Correct techniques for moving and handling heavy weights
- Excellent knowledge of GMP and QAAPS
Desirable criteria
- Clinical trial/GCP training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of GMP, QAPPS and QA and its application to Aseptic processing
- Extensive post qualification pharmacy practice experience of working in an aseptic/production environment
- Proven training experience
- Significant supervisory/management experience
- Management training on policies and procedures, equal opportunities, IPR etc
- Advanced computer skills
- H&S training, knowledge of handling hazardous chemicals according to local SOP
- Previous knowledge of pharmacy based computer systems
- Production of SOPs
- Correct techniques for moving and handling heavy weights
- Knowledge of GCP and clinical trials
Desirable criteria
- Understanding and use of the Chemocare electronic prescribing system
- Involvement in the preparation of Intrathecal cytotoxics
- Change management
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
- Claire Turner
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacy Technician, Aseptic Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2711991
- Additional information
Helen Bowler
0114 271 3840
Pharmacy Clinical Trials Manager
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Sheffield
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