Senior Pharmacy Assistant (SATO) - Aseptic Services

We are looking to recruit a Senior Pharmacy Assistant to expand our team within our busy but friendly aseptic services unit based within the pharmacy department. The aseptic services unit provides chemotherapy and parenteral nutrition to the patients of Hampshire Hospitals.

The role involves cleaning and monitoring within the pharmacy cleanrooms, completion of batch worksheets and labels, assembly of raw materials, aseptic preparation of chemotherapy and monoclonal antibody products within pharmaceutical isolators, according to GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) and dispensing of ready-to-administer specials products.

A level of fitness is required as the role does require some physical activity and manual handling., To carry out and/or ensure that the daily recording of the isolator and clean room pressure readings are undertaken reporting any problems immediately to senior aseptic staff.

To clean the isolator, clean rooms, and preparation areas according to departmental standard operating procedures (SOP's).

Maintain stock levels of equipment and materials within the clean rooms and isolator.

Setting up and assembly of materials for aseptic preparations (including calculations) using the in-house batch code system and paperwork. Ensuring that product accountability and reconciliation is always adhered to by accurate completion of batch worksheets and other necessary documentation.

Performing aseptic manipulations within the isolators, to produce a variety of products.

Complying with departmental health and safety procedures at all times, including spillage procedures and dealing with hazardous chemicals. Maintaining safe systems of work within the section to ensure compliance with Infection Control, the Health and Safety at Work Act, COSHH and NHS guidance.

To carry out general housekeeping duties across the department, unpacking goods, putting them away in the correct location, checking expiry dates, reporting discrepancies, and keeping the environment clean and tidy.

An enthusiastic, self-motivated, and organised person preferably with experience of working within a hospital aseptic unit and/or experience of GMP. The candidate will need to have a Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Pharmacy Service Skills/Pharmacy Manufacturing.

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

£23,615 to £25,674 a year vacancy can be offered as a band 2-3 progressional post