Senior Lead Pharmacy Technician Clinical Trials

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Join our mission to tackle UK and global health challenges with an aim to transform the future of healthcare by joining our dynamic Pharmacy Clinical Trials team at Imperial!

If you are a dedicated Pharmacy Technician ready to take on the challenge of leading clinical trials, we want to hear from you. Broad post-registration experience in secondary care and an aseptics and/ or clinical trials background will be beneficial to this role.

Our team works across a broad range of commercial, academic, and Imperial-sponsored trials, screening and delivering a variety of specialised therapies to patients. With circa 300 active trials managed by passionate professionals, you'll find an exciting landscape with the emerging development of personalised and precision medicines.

Be a part of our team, a close-knit group spanning the Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, St Mary's Hospital, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital and the Western Eye Hospital. Act as liaison to one of our dispensaries, ensuring clinical trials are prepared safely and efficaciously.

You will be training pharmacy technicians, pharmacists, and assistants in clinical trials within the dispensary, contributing to our legacy of excellence. Through our association with Imperial College London, the Imperial Clinical Research Facility (ICRF), CRUK Imperial Centre, and various other research units, we have a global reputation for breaking new grounds in clinical and biomedical research.

In this highly specialist role you will advise and assist research teams to set-up and run clinical trials which will give our patients access to the latest potential new treatments anywhere in the UK. You will have your own portfolio of studies to deliver and the ability to act independently but with the backing of expert support in the clinical trials and dispensary teams in Pharmacy and the close relations we have with the specialist research teams.

Main duties of the job

• To maintain and develop the Pharmacy dispensary clinical trial service to ensure smooth running of clinical trials.
• To assist research teams, Sponsors and others in the setting up and running of clinical trials, liaising with relevant parties with regard to all pharmaceutical aspects of clinical trials involving pharmaceutical preparations, and to provide advice to research teams and the clinical trials team on dispensing of products.
• To co-ordinate all pharmaceutical aspects of clinical trials requiring dispensing or supply and to be responsible for ensuring the effective, efficient and high quality supply of medications to patients undertaking clinical trials.
• Ensuring that all pharmacy, and where appropriate nursing and medical, staff are appropriately advised and trained on the running and dispensing of clinical trials.
• To assist feasibility teams in costing queries to enable financial agreements for clinical trials to drawn up accurately and quickly and in accordance with Trust and national guidelines. To ensure that wherever possible all monies due to pharmacy are invoiced, collected and necessary records maintained, in liaison with research teams, Joint Research Office and the pharmacy clinical trials team.
• To actively identify opportunities to improve the quality and efficiency of the clinical trials service and to work with the Lead Pharmacists for Clinical Trials to harmonise and better the service.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Recognised pharmacy technicians qualification e.g. NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services
• Registered Technician with the GPhC
• Mandatory professional CPD as defined by the GPhC

Experience

Essential criteria

• Post qualification: solid grounding in all aspects of hospital pharmacy practice including aseptic services, ward/distribution services, dispensary and clinical trials
• Previous experience in training others
• Previous experience in looking after pharmacy computer systems

Desirable criteria

• Previous clinical trials or dispensary management experience.

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• The ability to communicate empathetically
• IT skills

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 772.9KB)
• Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)