Pharmacy Assistant

7 months ago

Preston, United Kingdom Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are looking for reliable, enthusiastic and energetic individuals to join our friendly team. Here we will fully train you to become Aseptic Unit Pharmacy Assistants where your rewarding role will be to prepare a range of injectable medicines.

You will work as a member of a large, highly skilled team of people all working to deliver products that are consistently produced and controlled to a particular quality standard (Good Manufacturing Practice GMP).

You will have good literacy and numeracy skills in addition to good dexterity to handle syringes and needles for accurate measurements of injections. You will be able to concentrate for long periods of time whilst carrying out accurate, detailed work in the form of Aseptic Manipulations.

You will need to be able to show you can work to procedures at all times. We offer opportunities for further training and development.

Pharmacy experience is not essential as full training for the role is provided

You will be required to work some evenings and bank holidays on a rota.

The role will involve the preparation of a wide range of injectable products such as; chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, antibiotics. To do this requires the use of specialist equipment and working within clean rooms.

The patients we treat are often the sickest and most vulnerable and these medicines are not available commercially, so it is imperative that we get it right. Adhering to strict clothing and personal hygiene procedures is essential and due to the critical nature of our work you will have to meet the highest standards of discipline, attention to detail and clean room behaviours.

There is also the opportunity to work in other areas such as Radio Isotopes, oral medicines preparation, re-packing and over-labelling of tablets and assembly of resuscitation boxes.

Medicines are manufactured under the Trust’s ‘Specials’ Licence granted by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The Manufacturing units operate under the name of Preston Pharmaceuticals (PP), and include Non Sterile Medicines Manufacture, Radiopharmacy and Aseptic Services, and an Extemporaneous Dispensing Service.

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

**Duties will include but not be limited to**:
To communicate routine Information effectively; verbally, in writing and where appropriate using electronic formats, with colleagues and internal staff on the manufacture of sterile products.

Use technical and analytical skills to support several quality assurance aspects of the service.

You will be required to follow a work plan but also to work flexibly to support the changing priorities within the department on a day to day basis.

To operate Aseptic production, Radio Pharmacy and office equipment. Move and handle equipment and materials using agreed procedures

Contribute to error monitoring and will be required to document deviations via a non conformance form and errors via use of the Trust Datix incident reporting system in a timely manner

Following Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and documented Standard Operating Procedures (SOPS) at all times the post holder will undertake a range of duties involved in the Aseptic manufacture of pharmaceutical products, including: Cleanroom gowning and cleaning (cleanrooms and equipment), labelling, measuring, calculating and compounding

**What this Opportunity means**:
Full and extensive training

A friendly and safe working environment (See our Trust Values)

Staff support, Health and Wellbeing, occupational Health

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