Clinical Trials Pharmacy Assistant

**Job overview**:
**Pharmacy Clinical Trials Assistant**:
**Fairfield General Hospital and Royal Oldham Hospital**

**Band 3**

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a proactive and enthusiastic individual to join the Clinical Trials Team at Royal Oldham Hospital and Fairfield General Hospital in a Pharmacy Clinical Trials Assistant role.
- You will be provided with constant support from members of the clinical trials team within the role and are expected to be an active member of the team and also work on your own initiative. An interest in clinical trials and research is required but previous experience within a related role is not essential.**Main duties of the job**:
**Experience of dispensing prescriptions within a hospital pharmacy setting and in the process of or already completed an NVQ2 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent is essential.**:

- Within the role, you will facilitate monitoring visits by external clinical trial sponsors and ensure quality of pharmacy site files are maintained in preparation for monitoring visits. Deal with clinical trial stock, in regards to patient returns, expired stock and destruction of investigational medicinal products (IMPs) appropriately, following clinical trial procedures. You will be responsible for temperature monitoring of IMPs across sites and ensuring any excursions are managed appropriately and efficiently. You will need to respond promptly to receive deliveries across the three sites of the North East Sector of the Northern Care Alliance. To help improve the clinical trials service, you will be involved in audit data collection and reporting.An important aspect of the role will be to train dispensary based staff on the background and procedures for dispensing clinical trial prescription. You will need to be meticulous in recording and updating clinical trial related data.

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualification/skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- In the process or already completed NVQ2 in Pharmacy Services
- 2 GCSE's in English and Maths grade 9-4 or equivalent
- Hospital Pharmacy experience
- Dispensing Experience
- Good communication
- Teamwork skills
- Good time management

**Desirable criteria**:

- Clinical Trials Experience
- Basic I.T. skills

**Knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Knowledge of the role applied for
- We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.

We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.

**Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.**

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