Job summary
Are you ready for your next challenge?! Do you want to work in a great team with supportive colleagues helping deliver exciting trials and treatment options to our patients?

We have an exciting new position within our pharmacy trials team here at University Hospitals Birmingham site to take a lead for our dedicated trials dispensary at our Queen Elizabeth Hospital site. We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced pharmacy technician to ensure the review, smooth set up and running of our non-cancer trials portfolio. You will work closely with our non-cancer trials pharmacists and a growing team of trials support staff, our research and R&D teams, and trial sponsors. Excellent communication and negotiating skills are essential.

We have a diverse and growing trials portfolio which will allow the post-holder to gain experience including early phase and first-in-human trials. It is an exciting time to be involved in clinical trials at UHB!

The successful applicant will have trials experience and have worked in a busy hospital dispensary with the ability to manage competing workloads and shifting priorities. You will be well-supported and have access to learning, development and training opportunities to allow you to acquire additional skills and knowledge to manage the service and deliver the best possible pharmacy trials service for our patients and service users.

Main duties of the job

• be responsible for the day-to-day management of the trials pharmacy service from our dedicated trials pharmacy providing a safe, efficient and timely service to our service users
• demonstrate the ability to work autonomously and within a team with excellent communication skills
• demonstrate the ability to manage competing workloads and shifting priorities
• provide leadership to a growing trials support team, providing direction and motivation
• have a keen eye for detail and have the technical knowledge of medicines management to review trial documents to allow successful review, set up and delivery of our investigational medicinal products

About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• NVQ Level 3 (Pharmacy Services) plus accredited underpinning knowledge BTEC/ City & Guilds (in Pharmaceutical Science) or equivalent
• Professional Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• NVQ level 4 in management or equivalent knowledge and experience
• Evidence of continued Professional Development
• Accredited Checking Technician
• Specialist formal training in Good Clinical Practice (GCP)

Desirable

• Formal Leadership qualification
• Professional Registration with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

Experience
Essential

• Broad, up-to date and in depth knowledge of issues relating to clinical trials including knowledge of ICHGCP guidelines and Clinical Trials Legislation.
• High level knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), MHRA licensing requirements, COSHH
• Demonstrates responsibility for complying with agreed personal development programme to meet set knowledge and competencies.
• Knowledge of HR policies and procedures.
• Minimum 6 years post-qualification pharmacy experience.
• Providing specialist technical advice to others i.e. medicines handling and labelling requirements
• Working knowledge of a broad range of medicines and their safety issues
• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
• Demonstrates an understanding of the legal responsibilities of the profession
• Demonstrates the ability to be able to handle safely and competently pharmaceutical equipment and medicines used in the dispensing process
• Contribution to education of other staff.

Desirable

• Managerial experience implementing HR policies and procedures

Additional Criteria
Essential

• Able to or understand and work within Trust policies of data protection, equal opportunities, health and safety and meet differing needs of patients
• Plans own workload according to departmental priorities Reliable and conscientious approach to work
• Good communication skills -- written, verbal and electronic
• Good IT skills -- ability to use a variety of electronic systems for recording and reporting data
• Ability to work on own or within a team, able to act as team leader, motivating others.
• Able to co-ordinate work flows
• Able to determine and manage staff working patterns
• Able to check the work of others
• Good organisational skills
• Self motivated
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to accept responsibility for specific work areas
• Demonstrate problem solving skills
• Ability to work well under pressure, prioritising work as appropriate to achieve deadlines
• Demonstrates ability to develop, implement and follow SOPs
• Demonstrates ability to be flexible
• Supervising and organising APU staff
• Managing the provision of patient specific cytotoxic services
• Participate in the personal development and review systems of APU staff
• Make judgements in involving a range of facts or situations
• Accountable for own actions and those of others
• Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for service including quality and audits
• Able to manage sickness absence in accordance with Attendance Management Policy.
• Good understanding of Cancer Services
• Good patient counselling skills
• Excellent aseptic technique
• Willing to work cross-site, as required
• Willing to participate in late night, weekend and on-call service, as required.

Desirable

• Able to or understand the recruitment and selection process

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
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).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Yin May Chin
Email: yinmay.chin@uhb.nhs.uk
Amisha Desai
Email: amisha.desai@uhb.nhs.uk
Phone: 0121 3718038