Pharmacy Technician (Clinical Trials)

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Job description

Main area Pharmacy Grade NHS AfC: Band 4/5 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (1 x 37.5 hours post (weekend and late night dispensary duties on a rota basis))

Job ref 190-8973-DIR

Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type NHS

Site Sheffield Teaching Hospitals

Town Sheffield

Salary £26,530 - £36,483 pa/pro rata for part time staff

Salary period Yearly

Closing 06/04/2025 23:59

Interview date 16/04/2025

NHS AfC: Band 4/5

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated. While 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, innovative, and self-motivated individual to join our expanding pharmacy clinical trials team. The team at Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust comprises approximately 500 pharmacy staff working across five sites and is one of the biggest pharmacy departments in the country.

This is an exciting opportunity to join us as a band 4 or 5 pharmacy technician, depending on experience, to specialise in clinical trials. We work closely with other departments within the pharmacy, medical, university, and research staff to support clinical trials at our Trust.

We will provide clinical trials training and support you to complete NIHR GCP training to become a competent member of the pharmacy clinical trials team.

Main duties of the job

You will participate in the planning, organisation, provision, and maintenance of the clinical trials service and 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.

Please note this vacancy is banded dependent upon applicants' experience relevant to this post. The banding of the successful applicant/s will start at Band 4 unless applicants meet the necessary threshold of skills and experience required to start on Band 5.

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 mean it is less than two hours from most major metropolitan areas.

You will be working for an organisation that 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, including commitments to professional development and policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

This is advertised as a full-time post; however, we will consider part-time hours where this fits in with the service.

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

• GPhC registration
• BTEC in Pharmaceutical sciences or equivalent qualification/experience
• NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent qualification/experience
• Evidence of CPD
• Willingness to undertake CGP training in line with Trust requirements for research
• Aseptic services Module NVQ level 3
• Completion of NIHR GCP training
• Completion of a clinical trials technician competency
• Accredited Checking Technician Status (or working towards)

Further Training

• Microsoft Office Packages – evidence of short courses or relevant experience
• University or Professional body accredited ICH Good Clinical Practice course
• Health and Safety training

Experience

• Experience of dispensing medicines
• Experience of working as part of a team
• Experience of delegation/organisation
• Relevant post-qualification experience in hospital pharmacy
• Relevant experience of dispensing clinical trial prescriptions and has a completed dispensing competency for clinical trials
• Previous aseptics experience in the preparation of intravenous additives including cytotoxic drugs and adult and neonatal TPN
• Experience of dispensing Chemocare prescriptions
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to follow written and verbal instructions and SOPs
• Able to analyse and interpret a range of information to solve technical problems, especially relating to clinical trials
• Able to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines while paying attention to detail
• Self-motivating and participates in the development of services
• Experience in dispensing for clinical trials
• Understanding of the principles of the computerised prescribing system (Chemocare)
• Counselling skills
• Capable of using Word, Excel, Microsoft Outlook, and various applications such as JAC and Research database
• Ability to develop and implement policies for own work area and suggest suitable changes to develop services in other parts of the pharmacy

Candidates are advised to read the attached guidance on using AI technology. When you complete your application, you are required to declare that the information in your application form is true and complete. The personal statement is exactly that; personal.

When selecting to apply via NHS Jobs, you will be redirected to our preferred recruitment system called Trac. You will be asked to create and submit your application via the Trac recruitment system.

You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website. Furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. All communications should be sent via your Trac system account.

If you are offered employment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, your information will be transferred from the Trac recruitment system into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In addition, in submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed.

Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email sent via the Trac recruitment system, please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there.

The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Should you require any assistance in applying for the position, please contact the General or Medical Human Resources Departments on the number identified on the NHS Jobs page for the organisation.

Job Share applicants are welcome for all full-time posts unless indicated but cannot be guaranteed. In addition, for Fixed Term Contracts, internal secondments may be considered; please seek the approval of your current line manager before applying for the position.

All employment with the Trust is subject to a number of NHS Employment Checks being met to a satisfactory standard, including verification of identity, eligibility to work in the United Kingdom, references, and qualifications in addition to professional registration, a disclosure and barring records check, and occupational health check if these are deemed to be a requirement for the position to be undertaken.

For more information about our organisation and the opportunities available, please visit our website and follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Mark Davy

Job title Senior Pharmacy Technician - Clinical Trials

Email address [e-mail]

Telephone number 0114 2715456