Specialist Pharmacy Assistant Clinical Trials

3 months ago


London, United Kingdom King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

The post holder will assist in the coordination of the day-to-day activities in Clinical Trials and will ensure that the administrative duties relating to clinical trials are carried out in accordance with departmental policies, procedures, and drug trial protocols.

The post holder will manage (with support from the Clinical Trial's team) all pharmacy aspects of clinical trial studies including development and implementation of pharmacy procedures, managing files, dealing with sponsors, dealing with financial queries and the dispensing of trial medication.

Main duties of the job

Undertake the receipt, dispensing, accountability, returns and destruction of clinical trials ensuring all trials are managed in accordance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and Clinical Trials Regulations in accordance with Trust procedures. To deliver an efficient, structured and accurate clinical trials service complying with national legislation and local policies in conjunction with the pharmacy clinical trials team. To work with other members of the pharmacy clinical trials team to develop the clinical trials service in line with Trust strategy and regulatory directives

About us

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, million patient contacts a year and around 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

The trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we can take Team King's to another level.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for comprehensive detail

To manage quarantined clinical trials medication and report results of quarantined medicine investigations to the clinical trials pharmacists and technicians. To plan, organise and manage the daily workload of the pharmacy clinical trials service in conjunction with the clinical trials pharmacy technicians and assistants. To ensure dispensing, storage and expiry date records for clinical trials are kept up-to-date. To process patient returned clinical trial medicines and clinical trial medicines destruction. To manage shipping and clinical trial medicines returns to trial sponsors with external vendors. Review and contribute to SOPs for processes within the clinical trials department. To process and support implementation of amendments To respond to financial queries and produce report Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

NVQ Level 2 or equivalent (not pharmacy) Hospital experience (pharmacy) Clinical Trial pharmacy experience GCSE Maths & English (min C) GCP in last 2 years

Desirable

A level or B tech equilavent

Team work

Essential

experience in team work

Analtyical skills

Essential

Use of excel or other software to analyse data Ability to produce reports

Communication skills

Essential

Good written and spoken English

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