Senior Pharmacy Assistant - Clinical Trials

If you’re looking for a new opportunity in a challenging but rewarding aspect of healthcare then this may be the opportunity for you…

The James Paget University Hospital Pharmacy Department are looking for people to join their team.

The Pharmacy clinical trials team are looking for a Senior Pharmacy Assistant in clinical trials to support with the administration and dispensing of clinical trials. This would involve administrative duties as well as dispensing and medicines management duties.

You will be trained to work in the dispensary and the aseptic unit to ensure ability to dispense for the full variety of clinical trials managed within the Pharmacy department. You will work alongside the Clinical Trials Pharmacist and the Clinical Trials Technician to ensure all of the clinical trials pharmacy files and clinical trial medications are kept current and ready for an inspection at all times.

You will assist Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians in many aspects of the Pharmacy service helping to ensure the highest quality of pharmaceutical care is given to our patients.

Duties May Include

Clinical Trials

1. Undertake the receipt, dispensing, accountability, returns and destruction of clinical trials ensuring all trials are managed in accordance with GCP and study protocols.
2. To process patient returned clinical trial medicines and clinical trial medicines destruction.
3. To manage shipping and clinical trial medicines returns to trial sponsors with external vendors.
4. To plan, organise and manage the daily workload of the pharmacy clinical trials service in conjunction with the clinical trials pharmacist and clinical trial pharmacy technician.
5. To file clinical trials correspondence and documentation in the appropriate section(s) of pharmacy clinical trial site files.

Dispensary & Stores

1. To produce labels for dispensed drugs using the JAC computer system for inpatient, outpatient, community unit, TTOs, and CDs against the relevant previously clinically checked prescription or request.
2. To dispense medication for inpatient, outpatient, community unit, TTOs and CDs against the previously clinically checked prescription or request in line with departmental policies and procedures using the JAC system.
3. To assist the Senior Pharmacy Technician with the day-to-day distribution of medicines from Main Pharmacy Stores including:
4. Ensuring all allocated top-ups and ward visits are completed in a timely manner and per schedule.
5. To ensure the optimum use of the Automated Dispensing System and report any issues with its function when necessary.

We want to attract the best and brightest people to work with us and that means we will look after you from the moment you apply for a role at the Trust and throughout your career with us. Our staff are central to everything we do, and we believe that investing in you is crucial if we want to enable you to reach your full potential.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Samantha Richards Job title: Clinical Trials Pharmacist Email address: samantha.richards@jpaget.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01493 453273