Senior pharmacist (Research and Development)

If you have a passion for mental health and research, this is the role for you. SHSC strives to improve the mental health and wellbeing of the people who use our services and to always provide the best evidenced based care that we can. We aim to create a vibrant, engaged, improvement focused culture in which we use the best, and most up-to-date evidence to achieve the best outcomes for our service users.

We have an exciting new role in the team - Pharmacy Lead for Research and Development. It is a part time role. You will be the lead in the pharmacy team in supporting the Research and Development team. The Research and Development team has been growing, and exciting new opportunities for the staff to be involved in clinical trials are arising.

Responsibilities:

1. Be the first point of pharmacy contact for research trial sponsors and CROs.
2. Lead and facilitate pharmacy aspects of Pre-site selection visits, Site Initiation visits, monitoring and close out visits.
3. Oversight and management of pharmacy related clinical trials income.
4. Work with RDU and medical colleagues to identify areas of research priorities in respect of Clinical Trials of Investigational Medicinal Products (CTIMPs) and other related trials.
5. Contribute to the assessment and feasibility of delivery of clinical trials within SHSC (where applicable).
6. Attend local / regional pharmacy research networks.
7. Support the Chief Pharmacist in ensuring that effective medicines systems operate throughout the Trust.
8. Review the feasibility of proposed clinical trials considering the pharmacy aspect.
9. Oversight of expenditure and reimbursement for the pharmacy team for clinical trials (Research and Development (R&D)).
10. Ensure that all pharmaceutical aspects of clinical trials validation including digital systems are built in accordance with good clinical practice (GCP); good manufacturing practice (GMP); statutory national and international standards; and clinical need.
11. Support the coordination of local response in a timely manner, working closely with the clinical and research teams; Pharmacy; Sponsors; and R&D department.

Become part of a vibrant team who are extremely passionate about staff engagement, culture, and improvement, where everyone has a voice and where service users and staff collaborate to have a direct impact on the things that matter most. Our friendly department provides an environment that supports learning, team working and encourages individuals to develop in their role. The Pharmacy Department is a forward thinking and progressive department seeking to expand our current team as we develop a patient focused and modern hospital pharmacy service to the Trust while constantly looking at ways to further improve our service. We understand the importance of collaborative working and have strong links with other disciplines within and around the trust. The patient is at the centre of all that we do, and we aim to provide a pharmacy service that has Medicine Optimisation as key.