Clinical Trials Assistant

4 weeks ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust currently has approximately 450 on-going studies involving investigational medicinal products (IMPs) and Pharmacy has an important role in ensuring that clinical trial medications are handled safely. An exciting opportunity has arisen for two enthusiastic and well-motivated Clinical Trials Assistants to join the Pharmacy Clinical Trials Team. You will provide support in order to maintain a high level Trust-wide Pharmacy Clinical Trials Service.

As well as in-house training within the Pharmacy Clinical Trials Unit, you will be required to complete a Good Clinical Practice (GCP) course (either online or face-to-face depending on availability) and subsequent refreshers courses every three years.
- Interview date: 10 August 2023
- 37 hours 30 minutes/week - Part time hours will be considered.

A base hospital/ Pharmacy Clinical Trials Unit will be allocated to the post holders on appointment. However, you may be required to work at one of the other Pharmacy Clinical Trials Units within the Trust which include the main Pharmacy Departments at Freeman Hospital, The Royal Victoria Infirmary, The Northern Centre for Cancer Care (Freeman site) or the Campus for Ageing and Vitality (old General Hospital site). You will report to the Specialist Senior Pharmacy Technician at the relevant site, and you will be accountable to the Clinical Trials Operations Managers, the Lead Clinical Trials Pharmacists and the Senior Lead Clinical Trials Pharmacist (all Trust-wide - see job description for more details).

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC for the second consecutive time in 2019, we have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
- represented groups.
- A Clinical Trials Assistant will provide technical support to clinical trials services and the wider clinical trials team with the aim of providing safe management of clinical trials patients within the hospital and community.
- To carry out the full range of Clinical Trials Assistant duties including but not limited to the following:

- To answer telephone enquiries from internal or external persons involved in clinical trials.
- To liaise and communicate regularly with members of other disciplines working in the Trust.
- To carry out dispensing of clinical trials prescriptions and order forms.
- To manage ordering, maintenance, distribution, destruction (where applicable) and return (where applicable) of medications used within clinical trials.
- To maintain clinical trial documentation that forms part of the Trial Master File
- To complete and maintain in house documentation for monitoring equipment and managing clinical trials medication.
- To work in compliance with European and UK legislation related to clinical trials in particular Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
- To work in compliance with local health and safety rules to ensure a safe working environment for you, colleagues and visitors. To adhere to department and Trust Health and Safety policies (including COSHH, Risk assessments and Standard Operating Procedures) and to report any non-compliances to a senior member of staff.
- Calculates monies owed for previously agreed contracted clinical trial activities for approval by clinical trial Sponsors.
- Deals with finance queries from external organisations and Trust finance department
- Organises and prepares internal notification of debt documentation for monies owed.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

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