About this role
Job summary
Are you ready for this exciting opportunity to come and work in our NEW Cancer Services and Clinical trials area to help us expand and enhance our service provision? If so, this post could be the opportunity you are looking for. Due to our recent re-location, we are looking for a motivated Assistant Technical Officer, to help us deliver a high-quality service to our patients.Assistant Technical Officer required to support the clinical trials team in our very busy Pharmacy Trials Unit and Cancer Services. Duties include assisting clinical trials team with smooth delivery of clinical trials, dispensing of medication, receipt of trial medication, filing and assisting in monitoring temperature where clinical trials medication is stored. There will be requirement to work in the Cancer Services prefill area dispensing chemotherapy treatments. Creating databases and inputting information.
The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust is a large teaching hospital with an extensive R&D portfolio. The Pharmacy Department has close links with the Undergraduate School of Pharmacy at Wolverhampton University and is actively involved in teaching undergraduate students.
Qualifications required are four GCSE's to include English, Maths and a Science subject or working towards Level 2 NVQ in Pharmacy Services Skills. On the job training will be given. Experience of Pharmacy work and computer skills is required. Previous experience of dispensing is essential for this role.
Main duties of the job
Assist the Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacists in the provision of the broad range of services provided by the Aseptic Services unit working under the supervision of the Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacists.
Provides pharmacy service including dispensing drugs to patients, and other supportive duties in the pharmacy aseptic unit.
Support the work of the Aseptic Services in the provision of an early start, late night, weekend and bank holiday service.
About us
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good"by CQC. We have achievednumerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see the Trust website for the full job description and person specification attached to the vacancy.
Please complete your application form in full outlining and providing examples of how you meet each of the criteria listed below. This includes both essential and desirablecriteria.
Person Specification
Education Essential
Four GCSEs to include English, Maths and a Science subject or equivalent Computer Skills
Desirable
NVQ Level 2 Pharmacy or equivalent
Experience Desirable
Pharmacy/ Aseptic Experience Clinical Trials Experience
Disclosure and Barring Service Check 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.
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Employer details Employer name The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Address New Cross Hospital
Wolverhampton Road
Wolverhampton
WV10 0QP
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.royalwolverhampton.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)