Senior Pharmacy Technician Uk Visa Sponsorship
Job Description
JOB SUMMARY
Join our friendly pharmacy trials team at University Hospitals Birmingham, including the Heartlands, Good Hope, and Solihull (HGS) campuses.
The team provides pharmacy assistance for the trust’s expanding R&D activities; we have a big portfolio of studies that require the pharmacy department’s input. This year will also see the expansion to include advanced therapeutic trials in the HGS portfolio.
You will be involved in the planning and management of upcoming studies. You will help with trial drug maintenance, dispensing, labelling, drug accounting, and investigating any discrepancies, as well as temperature monitoring of any areas where clinical trial medication is stored.
There is no requirement to have experience working within clinical trials because full training will be offered; nonetheless, you must have good organisational and communication skills and be able to show you are extremely self-motivated and flexible.
It will be necessary to work on a rotational basis during the evenings, weekends, and bank holidays.
You will have.
-Complete a nationally accredited Pharmacy Technician qualification and register with the General Pharmaceutical Council. Candidates who will complete their qualification and registration shortly will also be considered.
-Accredited accuracy checking qualification or willingness to work towards this qualification.
-A flexible approach with strong time management abilities
For more information, please contact.
Lubna Khan can be reached at 0121 424 1516 or via email at lubna.khan@uhb.nhs.uk
Main responsibilities, tasks, and abilities required
Attend and participate in clinical trial feasibility and risk evaluation.
* Attend and contribute to Pharmacy initiation meetings as needed for new medication trials established in the Trust.
* Assist with the creation of Pharmacy study files for new medication trials beginning at the Trust.
* Receive, store, dispense, record, and ensure return accountability for each individual trial in accordance with the Pharmacy study file protocols.
* guarantee that documentation for each trial is completed correctly, amendments are applied, and documentation is filed in a timely way to guarantee that each trial file is properly preserved.
* Coordinate with research staff at the Trust, including medical, nursing, and R&D personnel, to ensure that drug studies are conducted safely and effectively.
* Help chemists with training and development.
* Generate and update trial SOPs.
* Meet with Clinical Research Associates from company-sponsored studies to conduct monitoring visits and follow up on identified actions.
* Proper temperature monitoring and timely reporting of temperature deviations.
* Conduct incident reviews and implement CAPAs.
* An audit of trials and trial services.
* Support for MHRA inspections.
* Keep the clinical trial database up-to-date.
* Arrange frequent invoicing for trials to Sponsors as asked using EDGE.
* Engage in specific training and development to match the job’s skill requirements.
About us.
We are acknowledged as one of the UK’s leading NHS Foundation Trusts. Our aim is to Build Healthier Lives, and we understand that we will require exceptional employees to achieve this.
Our dedication to our employees is to offer the ideal environment for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and well-being of our employees, including a commitment to provide flexible working arrangements when possible;
We provide our employees with a wide range of training and development options to help them achieve their personal and professional goals.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our employees are treated fairly and feel like they belong by providing a friendly and inclusive atmosphere. This is about equal opportunity; eradicating all barriers, including prejudice, and ensuring that each individual member of staff reaches their full potential, achieves their goals, and thrives in their jobs. This isn’t just words. We’re taking action. Our dedication to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation, where every voice is heard, and is pushed by our varied and active staff networks, as well as the Fairness Taskforce, which is managed by our CEO. We nurture a culture which allows staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to contribute their ‘full self’ to a kinder, more connected and daring place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a smoke-free hospital.
Job Description
*Please Note: For a complete job description for this position, please check the attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
*The General Pharmaceutical Council of Great Britain defines the NVQ Level 3 Diploma (QCF) in Pharmacy Service Skills and the Level 3 Diploma (QCF) in Pharmaceutical Sciences as equal.
*Dispensing Accuracy Accreditation, West Midlands scheme or equivalent, or progressing towards.
Registered as a technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
Desirable
*Accredited Checking Technician West Midlands scheme, comparable, or in progress.
Experience
Essential
*Experience working in a hospital setting
*Practical experience with aseptic procedures
*Working knowledge of a wide range of drugs and their safety concerns
*Experience working with a pharmacy team
*Shows grasp of the profession’s legal responsibilities.
*Showcases the ability to manage safely and competently.
Desirable
*Offering professional technical assistance to others, such as manufacturing procedures.
*Provide technical education to less experienced staff, students, or assistants.
*Training Experience
*Supervisory experience.
*Audit experience.
Additional Criteria:
Essential
* Effective communication abilities, both vocal and written / electronic.
* Good customer service skills
* Good teamworker
* Interpersonal Skills
* Good organising skills
* IT and typing abilities, including email.
* Demonstrates time management abilities.
* Displays the capacity to prioritise tasks.
* Demonstrates the ability to follow defined processes.
* Medication Counselling Skills
* Demonstrates the capacity to detect professional and personal limitations and refer them to the right person.
* Able to work under pressure.
* Demonstrates the capacity to complete a variety of jobs.
* Demonstrates the ability to lead and help other employees.
* Demonstrates the ability to make decisions on requests for urgent items.
* Shows ability to plan own job and assist others.
* demonstrates initiative.
* Accurate math skills
* Motivational skills.
* Evidence of Dispensing Accuracy Assessment: successfully completed.
* Evidence of continuous professional development (CPD).
* Proof of registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Committed to upholding the Trust Vision and Values.
Desirable
* Show the ability to write and develop procedures.
* Understands finance systems, such as creating invoices and credit notes.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This position is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, which requires a Disclosure application to be submitted to the Disclosure and Barring Service (previously known as CRB) to check for any past criminal conviction.
Certificate of Sponsorship
applicants from job seekers who require existing skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are encouraged and will be reviewed alongside all other applicants. For further information, visit the UK Visas and Immigration page.
From April 6, 2017, skilled worker applicants requesting for entrance clearance into the UK were required to show a criminal record certificate from each country where they had lived continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the previous ten years. This requirement also applies to adult dependents (those over the age of 18).Guidance can be found here. Criminal background checks for international candidates.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must hold current UK professional registration. For further information, visit the NHS Careers page.
For assistance with your application, contact:
Lubna Khan
lubna.khan@uhb.nhs.uk
01214241516
