Lead Pharmacy Technician - Clinical Trials | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 01 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L9 7AL |
| Company: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7231608/287-CEF-218-25 |
Summary
A new and exciting opportunity has become available for an enthusiastic, proactive and ambitious registered Pharmacy Technician to join our growing Clinical Trials Team at LUHFT to support research across the trust.
Reporting primarily to the Lead Clinical Trials Pharmacist, this role involves leading, developing and delivering the technical elements of the pharmacy clinical trials service. The post holder will have oversight of the department's facilities, equipment and capacity to ensure ongoing ability to support research activities for LUHFT, University Hospitals of Liverpool Group partners and external organisations.
This is a great time to join the trials and wider pharmacy Team at LUHFT with our ambition to deliver great care with research.
The post holder will lead, develop and deliver the technical elements of the pharmacy clinical trials service and have oversight and management of the department's facilities, equipment and capacity to ensure ongoing ability to support research activities including CTIMPs, non-CTIMPs and ATIMPS for LUHFT, University Hospitals of Liverpool Group partners and external organisations (under service level agreements)
The post holder will manage pharmacy clinical trials technical and support staff, including workload allocation, performance, recruitment and selection of staff, career development and sickness absence management. They will directly line manage Band 6 Senior Clinical Trials Technicians (all sites)
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.
Lead, develop and deliver a cross-site pharmacy clinical trials technical service.
Help set the strategic direction of the pharmacy clinical trial service
Ensure all standard operating procedures for the pharmacy clinical trials service reflect current practice, are maintained and updated as appropriate in line with local governance requirements, UK regulations and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) requirements, and are implemented.
Provide professional leadership for pharmacy clinical trials technical staff
Ensure that activities involved in the provision of clinical trial services receive appropriate remuneration
Develop and maintain IT systems to report monthly and annually in clinical trials activities.
Co-ordinate governance activities for the clinical trials team
Lead training on technical aspects of the clinical trials service
Develop and maintain regular communication and action plans with technical staff from different pharmacy teams of relevance to clinical trials; ensure that the patient experience is a primary focus of all technical and support staff
Support externally contracted manufacturing services required for LUHFT-sponsored research
For full details, please refer to the attached job description
This advert closes on Tuesday 15 Jul 2025