Senior Clinical Trials Pharmacy TechnicianNHS
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has become available for an enthusiastic and motivated Pharmacy Technician to join our dynamic and supportive Pharmacy Clinical Trials team at Whittington Health.
In this role, you will play a key part in the delivery and management of clinical trials, ensuring compliance with standard operating procedures, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), and relevant regulatory standards. This is an ideal position for someone with strong attention to detail, organisational and interpersonal skills who is looking to make a real impact in a research-focused environment.
You will be part of a collaborative team that works closely with pharmacy colleagues and multi-disciplinary teams across the Trust and wider region. As part of a forward-thinking and diverse pharmacy department, you will also have the opportunity to contribute to ongoing service improvements and support the expansion of research activity across the Trust.
At the Whittington, we are committed to innovation and continuous development in how we deliver care, ensuring our services are always focused on the best outcomes for our patients
Main duties of the job
- Be responsible for the operational management of the Pharmacy Clinical Trials Service
- Lead the Investigational Medicinal Product (IMP) management, including receipt, dispensing, handing out, returns, temperature excursion reports, and any other relevant activities.
- Provide specialist advice and assurance that all IMP processes comply with GCP, MHRA requirements and Trust governance standards, acting as a key point of contact during monitoring visits and inspections.
- Act as a specialist liaison and work with members of the Pharmacy Clinical Trials Team, Research and Development (R&D) team and drug companies to review and assess the operational and clinical resource needed to open and run clinical trials for a variety of specialities.
- Be responsible for the financial management of Pharmacy Clinical Trials, including costing, income recovery and financial governance.
- Develop and review departmental clinical trial work and standard operating procedures.
- Coordinate the effective communication of clinical trials related matters to the wider Pharmacy department and other healthcare professionals.
- Provide written and oral information to patients regarding clinical trials IMPs.
- Lead the collection, analysis and reporting of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) data for benchmarking and identify any variations or concerns for discussion..
- Make independent decisions regarding IMP management, protocol deviations and risk mitigation, escalating complex issues where appropriate.
Job description
For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.