Job summaryTo be an integral part of the Pharmacy Team developing Aseptic Services for the patients and staff of this Trust and other local healthcare providers. To participate in the provision of aseptically prepared intravenous medicines using technical skills, including final check and release of aseptically prepared products. To lead on economical and statistical analysis.
Main duties of the job- To follow good manufacturing practice (GMP) at all times.
- To generate worksheets and labels, ensuring medicines are charged correctly using the pharmacy computer system.
- To in process check worksheets and labels, ensuring medicines are charged correctly.
- To assemble drugs, diluents and consumables prior to aseptic dispensing.
- To participate in 'in-process' checks of drugs, diluents and consumables prior to aseptic dispensing.
- To assist with decontamination of products from the support room & cleanroom prior to preparation (spraying and wiping).
- To check /prepare the isolators are ready for use before each session.
- To aseptically dispense injections and infusions within the appropriate work zone.
- To in-process volume check injections and infusions.
- To final pack and label prepared items and pass them to the final checking stage.
- To dispense batched products, including product selection, labelling and packaging, including parental nutrition.
- To order and dispense outsourced patient specific items, including parental nutrition.
- To be registered as a named person on the Intrathecal Chemotherapy register, in order to complete the above tasks for Intrathecal drugs.
- To final check and release dispensed patient specific aseptic items.
- To final check dispensed parental nutrition or other aseptic items manufactured by external suppliers.
- To final check batched aseptic items & take these to QA for release.
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University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) brings together Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. As a group, we are committed to improving services for our communities through collaboration, modernising care delivery and striving for excellence. Working together enables us to share expertise, strengthen services and create greater opportunities, and there may be a requirement to work across sites depending on service needs.
Our Excellence Values are Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage. UHN welcomes applications from all backgrounds and is committed to an inclusive working environment. We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and hold the Gold Award under the Employer Recognition Scheme. Candidates who identify as members of the Armed Forces community and meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.
Job responsibilities- To perform other tasks necessary to ensure that ASU operates in an appropriate and efficient manner. This will include the following tasks:
- To upload documents to the electronic quality management system (EQMS).
- To accurately populate debtor forms to enable correct charging to external customers.
- To assist in ensuring agreed environmental monitoring (including ensuring end of session broths are available) and cleaning procedures are carried out and relevant records kept.
- To ensure adequate stock of outsourced and/or in-house dose-banded items.
- To assist with reducing wastage by processing returns and re-using products where possible.
- To assist with data collection and audits, when required.
- To deliver exposed settle plates to microbiology at the end of each day.
- To ensure delivery and collection of cleanroom clothing.
- To assist in ensuring maintenance of adequate & accurate stock levels and proper storage of medicinal products and consumables used by ASU.
- To assist in the training of pharmacy and other staff, when required.
- To answer the telephone and liaise with pharmacy staff and ASU customers regarding patients treatment.
- To attend ASU and other pharmacy meetings when required.
- To attend study days and training programs as requested by Senior Technician, ASU to ensure continuing personal development.
- To highlight potential corrective and preventable actions (CAPA) and service improvements to enable colleagues to learn from errors or quality issues.
- To undertake any other related duties as may be deemed necessary.
- To represent the ASU department at pharmacy meetings.
- To assist in updating procedures and writing new procedures.
- If required, to deputise for the Principal Pharmacy Technician.
- To undertake any other related duties as may be deemed necessary.
- Statistics: To collate and report statistics related to the aseptic unit. This will include the following tasks:
- To accurately calculate workload statistics for the unit (using reports from the pharmacy computer system) and enter these on the EMCN workload stats spreadsheet.
- To input calculated statistics & other relevant information into the capacity plan to gain a workload capacity figure.
- To compile statistics on turnaround times and other key performance indicators and record these on the scorecard.
- To compile statistics on cost improvement programs (CIPs), cost avoidance and any external income.
- To add assigned metrics to the pharmacy management board (PMB) scorecard.
Person SpecificationQualificationsEssential- Registered Science Manufacturing Technician Or Registered Pharmacy Technician
DesirableSkillsEssential- Good IT skills
- Good communication skills
ExperienceEssential- Aseptics experience
- GMP experience
- Experience training other staff
Desirable- Experience creating debtor forms, dealing with invoice queries
Specialism related skillsEssential- Compilation of statistics (turnaround times, outsourced items, deviations, CIP's or other KPI's)
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). 