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 16,000 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

We're looking for a motivated and detail-driven Senior Lead Pharmacy Technician to take the lead in our Clinical Trials service. This is your chance to play a pivotal part in groundbreaking research that shapes the future of medicine. Every day brings new challenges, from coordinating complex trial protocols and ensuring smooth medication supply, to supporting research teams and mentoring pharmacy staff.

You'll be at the heart of innovation, collaborating with pharmacists, clinicians, sponsors, and research associates to make sure every trial runs seamlessly and safely. Your expertise will help guarantee that every product is prepared, dispensed and recorded to the highest GCP and GMP standards. With your guidance, our team will deliver a patient-focused service that's efficient, compliant and ready to adapt to new opportunities.

If you're an experienced and registered Pharmacy Technician with a flair for organisation, leadership and teamwork and you thrive in a fast-paced, research-driven environment. We'd love to hear from you. Join us and help bring pioneering treatments from concept to clinic, one trial at a time.

For informal visits and chats, please contact: imperial.pharmacyclinicaltrialsrecruitment@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

• Coordinate all pharmaceutical aspects of clinical trials, ensuring effective, accurate and timely supply of trial medications.
• Provide specialist advice and support to research teams, sponsors and pharmacy staff on all pharmaceutical elements of clinical trials.
• Ensure compliance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards across all dispensing activities.
• Maintain robust documentation, audit trails and stock control to support safe and efficient clinical trial operations.
• Lead, train and support pharmacy staff involved in clinical trials, promoting high standards of accuracy and professionalism.
• Contribute to service development, harmonisation and quality improvement initiatives within the pharmacy clinical trials team.

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.

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

• Excellent and professional verbal and written communication skills
• The ability to communicate empathetically

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 Requirements Form (PDF, 90.2KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)