Aseptic Services Technician | and University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

About the Pharmacy Department

The Pharmacy Department provides a fully comprehensive pharmaceutical service across the Trust and to a number of external community units. We are a large and very busy department with over 180 members of staff including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy assistants, admin and clerical staff and apprentices. There are many varied roles and we all work as a team to provide the different functions and services whilst maintaining a high level of patient care.

Functions of the Pharmacy Department include the ordering, receipt and supply of medicines to wards and departments throughout the Trust/external units. This includes dispensing for inpatients, outpatients, community units and supplying ward stocks averaging around 2,500 items a day. Wards and external units are provided a clinical service, with pharmacists and pharmacy technicians an integral part of the multidisciplinary team. The pharmacy provides Aseptic Services such as the preparation and supply of chemotherapy and other sterile products.

We have a Quality Assurance team that works to ensure that our products are prepared and supplied to meet the highest quality standards.

To support an expansion of chemotherapy services at the NNUH we have received new funding for our Aseptics department to enable us to increase capacity.

We have an opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Pharmacy Aseptic Services Technician to join our large and busy pharmacy aseptic team. You will either already be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council or the Science Council or be recently qualified/close to qualifying and preparing to register.

Please note:

if you are close to qualifying as a Pharmacy Technician and are successful in gaining this post with us, you will be required to have completed 2 years’ work experience with your current employer and gain registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council before you can start work with us in this post.

Pharmacy Technicians and Science Manufacturing technicians are vital members of the pharmacy aseptic team who work closely with Pharmacists, Pharmacy Assistants and with other staff within the Pharmacy and Trust.

• Performing pre-manufacture checks on items waiting to be prepared
• Generation of worksheets
• Aseptic manufacture of products
• Transfer decontamination and cleaning
• Training of new staff in the unit
• Prepare the aseptic unit and equipment – including calibration checks – for daily working.
• Produce worksheets and labels for cytotoxic drugs using the computerised system (JAC).
• Produce worksheets and labels for TPN/CIVAS using the computerised system (JAC).
• Reconstitute and manufacture TPN/CIVAS and cytotoxic drugs under the supervision of Senior Pharmacy Technicians in accordance with departmental standard operating procedures and to the standard of the Guide to Good Manufacturing Practice. Highlight any deviations in practice to Senior Pharmacy Technicians.
• Formulate TPN, CIVAS and cytotoxics preparations using appropriate calculations.
• Ensure that all necessary records are completed, including batch records, equipment log files and cleaning records.
• Participate in the cleaning of the Aseptic Services Unit as required including cleaning of the isolators and other equipment used; and close down the unit at the end of the working day.
• Contribute to good stock control by using JAC programmes for TPN, CIVAS and cytotoxic products.
• Assist with the ordering of drugs and sundries within Aseptic Services.
• Assist the Principal Pharmacist, Aseptic Services and Operations Manager, Aseptic Services in the training of ward and other non-pharmacy staff in the preparation of medicines and techniques used within Aseptic Services and the demonstration of those techniques.

Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff! The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront…