Senior Pharmacy Assistant/ Aseptic Operative

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We require an experienced, enthusiastic and self-motivated Aseptic Operative/Pharmacy Assistant with excellent communication skills to join our motivated forward thinking Technical Services department, which actively encourages training. You will work in an exceptionally friendly department delivering a patient focussed service.

This is an ideal opportunity for an Aseptic Operative/Assistant who is keen to build on their aseptic experience, to help develop a patient focussed Technical Services to meet the changing needs of the organisation and to help support the planned expansion of Cancer and Chemotherapy services within the Trust.

If you are interested in a full time post in Pharmacy Technical Services and being an integrated part of the multidisciplinary team, then this is the job for you.

We are ideally looking for someone with experience of working within a hospital pharmacy production unit.
- Works closely with the Principal and Senior Technician in helping support and develop all

operational aspects of technical services.
- Helps to ensure that services are provided in a safe, efficient and effective manner according to local, national and Regional QA requirements and the principles of good manufacturing practice.
- Contributes to monitoring and management of performance and quality for technical services unit and services provided to cancer speciality.

Key working relation relationships
- All pharmacy staff
- Chemotherapy day unit team
- Clinical and non-clinical staff within trust.
- Imperial QA staff

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people.

Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate.

We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.
Main duties of the job
- Works closely with the Technical Services team to ensure smooth delivery of the service.
- Assists with the manufacturing of Aseptic products.
- Assists with maintenance of the unit including cleaning, monitoring and validation.
- Assists with stock control including ordering, stock checks and rotation.
- Produces worksheets and labels and sets up products for manufacturing
- Sprays and wipes in products for manufacturing

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Technical Services
- Liaising with Chemotherapy Day Unit staff, of all grades, to support the work flow.
- Maintains effective communication links with the Principal Pharmacist, Principal Technician and

Senior Technician to ensure practices reflect adherence to GMP and section 10 requirements,
Health and Safety legislation, COSHH and Trust Medicines Policy.
- Helps to ensure that all legal and procedural requirements are met and that all records are

maintained.
- Takes part in writing and maintenance of all standard operating procedures for work processes in technical services in collaboration with QA and Principal Pharmacist or Technician
- Prepares and/or dispenses injections and infusions for (e.g. chemotherapy and CIVA’S, clinical trial materials) under aseptic conditions and pre-packs to all required standards.
- Helps to maintain good stock control by helping to complete stock checks on a daily basis and investigates and corrects discrepancies according to local procedure.
- Helps with accurate booking out of medicines on the pharmacy computer system.
- Helps to co-ordinate drug and non-drug orders and liaises with purchasing and stores staff with

regard to stock problems.
- Participates in Quality Assurance initiatives associated with the technical services unit including

helping with environmental monitoring, equipment and cleaning.
- Assist with ordering and maintenance of stock of all medicines and consumables required by technical services unit.
- Helps to ensure that all equipment (e.g. i

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