Senior Assistant Technical Officer - Clinical Trials

Senior Assistant Technical Officer - Clinical Trials at NHS

The post holder will assist in the coordination of the day-to-day activities in Clinical Trials and will ensure that the administrative duties relating to clinical trials are carried out in accordance with departmental policies, procedures, and drug trial protocols. The post holder will work across all sites of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as part of the pharmacy clinical trials team in providing a clinical trials service in line with standard operating procedures, good clinical practice (GCP) and relevant legislative requirements. You will assist our pharmacy clinical trials team to deliver world-class research by maintaining the storage and receipt of clinical trials medicines across the Trust and provide a high-quality dispensary service enabling access to new and ground-breaking treatments to patients via study protocols. You will undertake duties across all sites as part of the Pharmacy team under supervision of the Pharmacy Clinical Trial Technicians and/or Pharmacists to meet Trust and departmental objectives towards maintaining and developing the pharmacy clinical trial service across the Trust.

• Receipt of clinical trial medication, confirming if arrived in good condition and at correct temperature, acknowledging receipt on to the appropriate system, data entry on to the computer system, distribution to the relevant section, accurate completion of appropriate logs.
• Participation in ongoing stock control systems for medicines used within trials including stock checks, stock rotation and quality checks.
• Participation in monthly expiry date checks for clinical trials medication and reporting to team.
• Participation in clinical trial medications returns and destruction processing.
• Checking temperatures of areas used for storage of clinical trial medication, generating data reports and checking the data reports for the monitoring system.
• Maintain Pharmacy files to a high standard, including file preparation for new trials, receiving and filing trial related paperwork, retrieving and collating documentation and producing reports required by research Sponsors.
• Assist with recording/processing of amendments as required.
• Assist with entering/compiling data required for invoicing as required.

• To assist with prescription co-ordination, documentation, assembly and dispensing of patient medicines and related products including clinical trials materials
• To be able to dispense Clinical Trials prescriptions
• To be able to participate in the monthly expiry date checking rota
• To be able to participate in and contribute to departmental meetings
• To be able to assist in the training of new members of staff rotating into the dispensary
• To be able to carry out general housekeeping duties (tidying, restocking consumables, filing prescriptions etc.)

Essential

• Hold a General Pharmacy Council-recognised Level 2 Pharmacy Services Assistant qualification or equivalent

Desirable

• GCP training within the last 2 years

Essential

• Be able to provide and receive routine factual information to inform work colleagues and patients/carers, with tact and persuasion where there may be barriers to understanding.
• Be able to make judgments involving facts or situations, some requiring analysis independently and as a group.

Essential

• Knowledge of procedures for dispensary services
• Knowledge of pharmacy computer systems
• Relevant experience in Hospital Pharmacy Practice

Desirable

• Relevant experience in pharmacy clinical trials

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a disclosure check will be required. Applications from job seekers who require Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Denmark Hill
London
SE5 9RS