Clinical Trials Pharmacy Technician

Job Title: Clinical Trials Pharmacy Technician

Job Location: Basingstoke, UK

Job Location Type: Hybrid

Job Contract Type: Contract

Job Seniority Level: Entry level

We have an exciting opportunity to develop your skills as a Specialist Pharmacy Technician for our expanding clinical trials service, working closely with our Clinical Research Network Wessex award-winning team. Clinical trials can be highly rewarding, offering insights to medical advances in treatment and professional development.

HHFT has a portfolio of over 100 trials, including commercial clinical trials. We currently support trials in Oncology, Cardiology, Microbiology, Rheumatology, Gastroenterology & Paediatrics.

We want to hear from you if you are passionate about making a positive contribution to the evidence base for the future care of patients.

• A Pharmacy Technician who values attention to detail & is computer literate
• Someone committed to providing the highest quality of research and care for patients
• A capable communicator, with skills in team working and self-direction

• Supportive and friendly teams, within Pharmacy and the Trust
• Opportunities for training and development, personal and professional
• Collaborative working within and outside the Trust, with Clinical Trials Networks region and nationwide

• Support the Speciality Pharmacists (Research & Development, R&D) to develop, deliver and evaluate the Pharmacy Research & Development service within the Pharmacy Business Unit and Trust wide with respect to Medicines Management, in line with pharmacy service level agreements and objectives set by the Lead Pharmacist (R&D).
• Ensure that the highest standards of clinical care are continuously delivered.
• Work with the Research and Pharmacy Teams, and customers to ensure effective planning, scheduling, delivery and monitoring of service access, activity, and quality targets; identify reasons for deviations and support the Research & Development Pharmacists with service development and implementation of potential solutions.
• Support the setting of quality standards within the service, including GCP and GMP where appropriate and clinical audit.
• Dispense and check dispensed prescriptions for in and outpatients, and supply goods to the Trust and outside units, ensuring that medicines are issued in a timely manner to meet the customers needs in accordance with the study protocol, departmental and Trust guidelines.
• Receive returns of investigational medicinal products, ensuring all documentation is completed in accordance with the study protocol.
• Put into practice all pharmacy policies and standard operating procedures (SOPs) and, if suitable, suggest changes or modifications to improve the pharmaceutical service offered.
• Actively participate in risk management within the clinical trials service, specifically using information from audits and inspections as well as incidents and complaints to learn and improve.
• Participate in business unit service level meetings.
• Assist new or less experienced colleagues of all levels to learn routine tasks within the pharmacy and R&D service to a standard set out in relevant SOPs.

We are happy to consider applications with flexible working patterns that cater to individual requirements and would consider supporting development for a candidate who may not meet all the essential criteria of the person specification. All these can be discussed at interview.