Job summary
Employer heading
Senior Assistant Aseptic Services
Band 2 to 3 progression (depending on experience)
Job overview
If you would like to be involved in the process of manufacturing life saving cancer treatments for adults and children, then this is the job for you!
We are looking for one committed and motivated person to join our small aseptics team for a 22 month period.
You must possess good communication skills and be able to work to tight deadlines in this busy and challenging environment. Computer literacy and attention to detail is also important.
Previous experience of working in pharmacy aseptics would be an advantage.
Main duties of the job
To carry out an accreditation for compounding of chemotherapy products, under the supervision of the senior technician, following competency-based training.
To prepare worksheets and produce labels
o oversee and carry out ‘environmental monitoring’ within the chemotherapy unit, including monitoring temperatures and pressures.
- To undertake in-house validation to sanitise raw materials and equipment for use in clean room areas.
- To support senior technician inside the cleanroom in sanitising raw materials and equipment for use in the isolator, in in-process volume checking and using the prescription tracking system under the direction of the manufacturing technicians as required.
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- To carry out cleaning of clean room, support areas and equipment following defined standard operating procedures on a daily, weekly, three monthly and annual basis along with other general housekeeping duties required in the chemotherapy unit
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please read the Job Description and Person spec before applying for this post. If you have any queries please contact Marian Griffiths.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 4 GCSEs (or equivalent) including maths and english
- Ability to work towards NVQ (level 2)
Competencies
Essential criteria
- Attention to detail
- Basic IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Microsoft Excel and Word
- Knowledge of JAC
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous/current experience of working in a hospital or in pharmacy
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of GMP
Applicant requirements
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
- Marian Griffiths
- Job title
- Pharmacy Aseptics Operations Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03006159801
- Additional information
or contact Anna Horne - Senior Lead Technician
email: [email protected]
phone ;03006159801
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