Specialist Pharmacy Technician

Are you an enthusiastic pharmacy technician seeking a new opportunity?

Royal Papworth Hospital invites you to join our team, providing high quality pharmaceutical care to patients in our specialist cardio-respiratory centre. The pharmacy department sits at the heart of our state-of-the-art, digitally enabled hospital.

In this role, you will lead on operations management of the clinical trials service including organising all workload and operating procedures.

We welcome diversity in our department and look to celebrate the unique contribution of each team member. As a team we are supportive of flexible and part-time working and would look to agree a working pattern which meets the needs of both the individual and the service.

Main duties of the job

In the role, you will

Dispense and accuracy checkprescriptions for clinical trials and compassionate use programs

Maintain and produce accurate documentation required for clinical trials

Be responsible for the smooth initiation, running and close of clinical trials

Implement and revise pharmacy clinical trials procedures

Provide training and supervision to student pharmacy technicians and registered technicians working in Clinical Trials Pharmacy

Deputise for the clinical trials pharmacists when necessary

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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