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Senior Pharmacy Assistant - Clinical Trials | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,071 - £25,674 per annum (annex 21 training positions will be considered) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 October 2024 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L7 8YE |
| Company: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6645862/287-DSS-397-24-A |
Summary
Come and join our friendly pharmacy clinical trials team.
The team provide pharmacy support for the expanding Research and Development work of the trust cross site. We have a large portfolio of drug studies requiring the input of the pharmacy department.
We are involved in trials which cover many clinical specialties including ophthalmology, cardiology, gastroenterology, diabetes and dermatology.
We are heavily involved in supporting the NIHR Royal Liverpool Clinical Research Facility in the conduct of first in human studies.
We work with external trial sponsors such as pharmaceutical companies, universities and local research units to ensure the correct and safe management of clinical trial medication.
You will assist in the maintenance of trial drugs, dispensing and labelling clinical trial drugs, recording drug accountability and investigating any discrepancies and temperature monitoring of any areas storing clinical trial medication at both the Aintree and Royal Liverpool Hospital sites.
You will also meet with external trial representatives during their monitoring visits to discuss the conduct of the trials at site.
You will be trained in the main dispensary and be included on the late and weekend rotas.
Full training in our in-house procedures and policies will be given.
Note: If the successful does not have the necessary qualifications (i.e. relevant dispensing qualification NVQ 2 or equivalent) then an annex 21 training position will be considered.
In this role, you will assist in the pharmacy to support the clinical trials activity of the Trust for studies involving medicines and working in accordance with current legislation, GCP and Trust SOPs.
You will work as part of the Clinical Trials & Pharmacy team in providing an efficient, effective and safe clinical trials service in accordance with departmental and Trust standards and procedures.
You will assist in the provision and development of the clinical trials service to LUHFT and dispense Clinical Trial prescriptions accurately in accordance with departmental and Trust standards in accordance with Good Clinical Practice and Clinical Trial regulations
Please see attached job description.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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You will work as part of the Clinical Trials & Pharmacy team in providing an efficient, effective and safe clinical trials service in accordance with departmental and Trust standards and procedures.
You will work at both the Royal Liverpool and Aintree sites.
Your responsibilities will include
• Dispensing of clinical trials prescriptions, including all required accountability and completion of paperwork
• Receipt of deliveries of clinical trial materials
• management of storage of investigational medicinal products
• Attendance of monitoring visits and following up of actions
• management of generic trials email in box
Please see attached Job Description for full details of role.
This advert closes on Monday 30 Sep 2024