Senior Clinical Trials Pharmacy Assistant

7 months ago


Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Senior Clinical Trials Pharmacy Assistant - Band 3 - Permanent

Hello My name is Lina and I am the Clinical Trials Pharmacy Technician Team Manager for the Clinical Trials Pharmacy in Oxford.

As a Senior Technician I am privileged to manage and support our fantastic technical team of Pharmacy Technicians, Assistants, Practitioners and Apprentices as we provide support services to clinical trial research teams on all our Trust sites throughout Oxfordshire.

The Clinical Trials Pharmacy consists of Pharmacists, Technicians, Assistants, Practitioners and Apprentices. We work closely with research teams across the trust and external representatives.

If you are interested in an informal discussion about the Pharmacy Assistant role offered within our team then I would be very pleased to chat with you. You are more than welcome to call on the numbers below or even better, we can make an appointment for me to show you around and answer your questions. I look forward to hearing from you.

As a Senior Clinical Trials Pharmacy Assistant in our team, you will have an extremely varied role - you will be involved in maintaining the supply chain of Clinical Trial medications to research nurses who deliver treatment to patients, maintaining financial records, completing drug accountability activities, closing down and archiving of completed studies, as well as facilitating meetings from sponsors.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel

Core Role - Pharmacy Clinical Trials

To obtain and maintain Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training.

To communicate with Investigators, Research Nurses, Trust R&D, Sponsors, Clinical Research Associates and Pharmacy staff during the set-up and running of a clinical trial.

To ensure clinical trial protocols and SOPs are followed during dispensing of clinical trial investigational medicinal products and other drugs included in the protocol.

To order and receive in clinical trial drugs, process receipt paperwork and acknowledge receipt on IVRS (Electronic Medication Supply) systems.

To check stock levels and expiry dates of clinical trial drugs and keep balance logs up to date.

To assist with the packing down and re-labelling of clinical trial drugs if required.

To assist with the preparation for monitoring meetings, audits and inspections,

To maintain Clinical Trial files ensuring items can easily be located and are presentable.

To process returned clinical trial drugs and ensure the paperwork is kept in order.

To participate in the statutory temperature monitoring of clinical trial stock.

To assist with the destruction of clinical trial medication.

To assist with the closedown and archiving of clinical trial files.

To represent the Clinical Trials Team to update the dispensary staff at meetings.

To liaise with Research Nurses to update them on trial progress, stock levels etc.

To assist in the collection of data as requested by the Senior Clinical Trial Technician or Clinical Trial Pharmacists.

To assist in maintaining financial records, including the generation of invoices, checking payments etc.

To assist with general administration such as organising set up meetings etc. and be a point of contact within the Clinical Trials Pharmacy Team.

To maintain clinical trial filing systems and drug accountability documentation for clinical trials.

To use the computer system and other information technology in all areas of Pharmacy.

Regulatory

To assist in non-aseptic preparation and dispensing of clinical trial medication in accordance with the RPSGB code of ethics and current legislation and guidance including Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Health and Safety, Medicines Act, Misuse of Drugs Act, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) and Departmental Procedures.

To ensure you are familiar with and adhere to Pharmacy, CTASU and Trust standard operating procedures (SOPs).

To ensure the disposal or recycling of medicinal products is carried out in a safe and efficient manner, in accordance with Health & Safety, COSHH



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