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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months ((31/03/2025) with possibility for extension)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
213-CORP-6159763-A
Employer
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Denmark Hill
Town
London
Salary
£27,948 - £29,468 per annum inc HCA's
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
03/05/2024 09:00
Interview date
17/05/2024

Employer heading

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Assistant Technical Officer

NHS AfC: Band 3

Job overview

The post holder will assist in the coordination of the day-to-day activities in Clinical Trials and will ensure that the administrative duties relating to clinical trials are carried out in accordance with departmental policies, procedures, and drug trial protocols.

To work across all sites of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as part of the pharmacy clinical trials team in providing a clinical trials service in line with standard operating procedures, good clinical practice (GCP) and relevant legislative requirements

You will be assisting our pharmacy clinical trials team deliver world class research by maintaining the storage & receipt of clinical trials medicines across the Trust. You will assist the team to provide a high-quality dispensary service giving access to new & ground-breaking treatments to patients via study protocols.

You will undertake duties across all sites as part of the Pharmacy team under the supervision of the Pharmacy Clinical Trial Technicians and or Pharmacists in meeting Trust and departmental objectives towards maintaining and developing the pharmacy clinical trial service across the Trust.

Main duties of the job

  • Receipt of clinical trial medication, confirming if arrived in good condition and at correct temperature, acknowledging receipt on to the appropriate system, data entry on to the computer system, distribution to the relevant section, accurate completion of appropriate logs.
  • Participation in ongoing stock control systems for medicines used within trials including stock checks, stock rotation and quality checks. This includes using both computerised and paper-based stock control systems and the processing of paperwork in accordance with audit requirements.
  • Participation in monthly expiry date checks for clinical trials medication and reporting to team.
  • Participation in clinical trial medications returns and destruction processing.
  • Checking temperatures of areas used for storage of clinical trial medication, generating data reports and checking the data reports for the monitoring system.
  • To maintain Pharmacy files to a high standard. This includes file preparation for new trials, receiving and appropriately filing trial related paperwork, retrieving and collating documentation and producing reports required by research Sponsors.
  • To assist with recording/processing of amendments as required.
  • To assist with entering/compiling data required for invoicing as required.

Working for our organisation

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and around 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

The trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we can take Team King's to another level.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To assist with prescription co-ordination, documentation, assembly and dispensing of patient medicines and related products including clinical trials materials 
  • To be able to dispense Clinical Trials prescriptions
  • To be able to participate in the monthly expiry date checking rota
  • To be able to participate in and contribute to departmental meetings
  • To be able to assist in the training of new members of staff rotating into the dispensary
  • To be able to carry out general housekeeping duties (tidying, restocking consumables, filing prescriptions etc.)

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Pharmacy NVQ Level 2 or equivalent
  • Hospital experience (pharmacy)
Desirable criteria
  • GCP
  • Relevant clinical trial experience

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Be able to provide and receive routine factual information to inform work colleagues, patients/carers that may require tact and persuasion, where there may be barriers to understanding.
  • Be able to make judgments involving facts or situations, some requiring analysis independently and as a group

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of procedures for dispensary services
  • Knowledge of pharmacy computer systems

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Applicant requirements

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Esther Makanju
Job title
Associate Chief Pharmacist Clinical Trials
Email address
[email protected]
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