Senior Pharmacy Assistant - Clinical Trials

at  Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

We have an exciting opportunity to join our expanding Clinical Trials Pharmacy Team.
You will be part of a close, dedicated team working with Pharmacy and Research Staff in an essential role to help minimise waste and improve medicines efficacy with our high cost cancer drugs.
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical Trials Dispensing Assistant Technical Officer. Clinical trial experience is not essential for this role, but would be desirable. We are a very experienced, friendly team and you will be supported in your development into an exciting and fulfilling role.
If you have excellent time management, communication skills and attention to detail come and join our Clinical Trials Team.
We are a friendly, experienced, supportive team, who want to promote research and open studies which will provide new treatments and medication for patients.
You will help support the team with the day to day running of current trials, undertaking the receipt and dispensing of clinical trial prescriptions, and the ordering, receipt and appropriate storage of clinical trial medication.
Ensuring documentation is completed correctly and in a timely manner including completion of accountability logs and preparation for the safe disposal or return of used/unused clinical trial medication.

For any other information about the role please contact Satish Kumar on telephone number 01622 225277 and Ian Pamphlett on telephone number 01622 227090.

• To participate in the Set-Up of new clinical trials opened at MTW Trust.
• To dispense clinical trial medication in accordance with departmental SOPs and clinical trial regulations.
• To receive clinical trial drug deliveries in accordance with departmental and clinical trial specific SOPs. To ensure that stock received is correct, the correct paperwork has been received as outlined in the delivery note or trial specific SOP. To ensure that appropriate temperature monitoring has been completed during shipment and to take appropriate actions on the event of a temperature excursion which will include quarantining stock and liaising with the pharmacy clinical trials team.
• Undertaking regular stock checks and ordering trial stock using trial specific documentation where appropriate.
• Support the pharmacy clinical trials team in collating clinical trial workload statistics.
• Monitoring the temperature-controlled areas for clinical trial medication within the pharmacy department and at ward level where appropriate. To take appropriate action in the event of a temperature excursion following sponsor guidelines.
• Safe and appropriate handling patient returned clinical trial medication. Ensuring where appropriate accountability logs are updated with details of returns.
• To be able to follow procedures, current clinical trials legislation and ensure working as per Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidance. and Safety at Work Act and COSHH.

MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.
We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre.
In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.
Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check at Enhanced Level . (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children).
At MTW, we seek to develop a culture where everyone can reach their full potential with opportunities to grow and develop their career. We recognise and value the unique contributions that each of our staff bring, delivering the best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to being a diverse employer and strive to reflect everyone in our local communities. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences and celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that will make our Trust the best place to work.
We support our staff with disabilities to ensure they have the adjustments they need to be the best they can be in the workplace. Collaborating with Access to Work means that our staff are assessed by experts in the workplace and we ensure that their recommendations are implemented as quickly as possible. You can find out more here: Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition: What Access to Work is - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Interview Date: To be confirmed

• To participate in the Set-Up of new clinical trials opened at MTW Trust.
• To dispense clinical trial medication in accordance with departmental SOPs and clinical trial regulations.
• To receive clinical trial drug deliveries in accordance with departmental and clinical trial specific SOPs. To ensure that stock received is correct, the correct paperwork has been received as outlined in the delivery note or trial specific SOP. To ensure that appropriate temperature monitoring has been completed during shipment and to take appropriate actions on the event of a temperature excursion which will include quarantining stock and liaising with the pharmacy clinical trials team.
• Undertaking regular stock checks and ordering trial stock using trial specific documentation where appropriate.
• Support the pharmacy clinical trials team in collating clinical trial workload statistics.
• Monitoring the temperature-controlled areas for clinical trial medication within the pharmacy department and at ward level where appropriate. To take appropriate action in the event of a temperature excursion following sponsor guidelines.
• Safe and appropriate handling patient returned clinical trial medication. Ensuring where appropriate accountability logs are updated with details of returns.
• To be able to follow procedures, current clinical trials legislation and ensure working as per Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidance. and Safety at Work Act and COSHH