Pharmacy Assistant - Clinical Trials

The team provide pharmacy support for the expanding Research and Development work of the trust cross site. We have a large portfolio of drug studies requiring the input of the pharmacy department.

We are involved in trials which cover many clinical specialties including ophthalmology, cardiology, gastroenterology, diabetes and dermatology.

We are heavily involved in supporting the NIHR Royal Liverpool Clinical Research Facility in the conduct of first in human studies.

We work with external trial sponsors such as pharmaceutical companies, universities and local research units to ensure the correct and safe management of clinical trial medication.

You will assist in the maintenance of trial drugs, dispensing and labelling clinical trial drugs, recording drug accountability and investigating any discrepancies and temperature monitoring of any areas storing clinical trial medication at both the Aintree and Royal Liverpool Hospital sites.

You will also meet with external trial representatives during their monitoring visits to discuss the conduct of the trials at site.

You will be trained in the main dispensary and be included on the late and weekend rotas.

Full training in our in-house procedures and policies will be given.

Note: If the successful does not have the necessary qualifications (i.e. relevant dispensing qualification NVQ 2 or equivalent) then an annex 21 training position will be considered.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will assist in the pharmacy to support the clinical trials activity of the Trust for studies involving medicines and working in accordance with current legislation, GCP and Trust SOPs.

You will work as part of the Clinical Trials & Pharmacy team in providing an efficient, effective and safe clinical trials service in accordance with departmental and Trust standards and procedures.

You will assist in the provision and development of the clinical trials service to LUHFT and dispense Clinical Trial prescriptions accurately in accordance with departmental and Trust standards in accordance with Good Clinical Practice and Clinical Trial regulations, You will work as part of the Clinical Trials & Pharmacy team in providing an efficient, effective and safe clinical trials service in accordance with departmental and Trust standards and procedures.

You will work at both the Royal Liverpool and Aintree sites.

Your responsibilities will include

• Dispensing of clinical trials prescriptions, including all required accountability and completion of paperwork


• Receipt of deliveries of clinical trial materials


• management of storage of investigational medicinal products


• Attendance of monitoring visits and following up of actions


• management of generic trials email in box
  
  Relevant dispensing qualification NVQ 2 or equivalent


• GCSE Grade A-C in Mathematics and English, Demonstrable experience rtail/hospital pharmaceutical work, VDU use


• Stock Control systems


• Computerised dispensing system


• Computerised dispensing system, Methodical approach


• Team worker


• Flexible


• Honesty/Integrity


• Good communicator


• Commitment to CPD


• Professional attitude
  
  Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.


The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond., 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.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £18+£5 (standard disclosure) or £38+£5 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

For agenda for change banded roles; salary payments will reflect the 2023/24 pay scales. The 2024/25 pay scales will be paid in October 2024 including any backpay due. Therefore should the successful applicant start in post prior to October, the salary will initially reflect the 2023/24 pay scales.