Pharmacy Clinical Trials Assistant - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Key responsibilitiesAdministration To take telephone calls and other messages on behalf of the team and take appropriate action against agreed criteria.

To communicate with other persons, groups or directorates both within and outside the trust on behalf of the team, demonstrating a high level of initiative, confidentiality and diplomacy.

To help manage the teams business diary; organise meetings as required; and where necessary, attend such meetings and take notes.

In the absence of the senior ATO, support the production of agendas and papers relevant to meetings convened by members of the team and to ensure agendas, notes and appropriate follow-up actions are circulated in a timely fashion To ensure the timely and appropriate processing of the sections incoming and outgoing mail (paper and electronic) against agreed criteria.

To initiate correspondence or other written work in the specified formats as required by the other members of the team.

To ensure that the pharmacy clinical trial database is maintained and assist in its development. To maintain an orderly and suitable inventory of all pharmacy related clinical trials.

IMP management To ensure that Pharmacy trial files contain appropriate copies of all relevant documentation following departmental standard operating procedures (SOPs).

To document the return of unused/unwanted investigational medicinal products(IMPs) following departmental SOPs and to participate in the safe disposal of drugs when appropriate with particular regard to departmental procedures.

To assist in the routine stock management duties including IMP temperaturemonitoring, expiry date checking, stock rotation, receipt of IMPs in line with departmental SOPs To carry out the dispensing and issuing of medication from the pharmacy clinical trials department in accordance with the policies, procedures and safe systems of work which prevail in the department at the time.

General To co-operate with objective setting, individual personal assessment and continuing education and training programmes, in order to ensure continuing professional development and competence to practice as required by clinical governance.

Together with other members of staff to ensure that:

Work is carried out in accordance with current departmental procedures and legislation Regulations in respect of the Health & Safety at Work Act, COSHH and other pertinent recommendations are complied with.

To respond positively and in a timely way to those changes which may occur which affect the nature and direction of the area of work. The post-holder will be expected to co-operate fully with changes that may occur which affect the current practices within the pharmacy departments, such as the introduction of new equipment, policies and amendments to working hours.

To undertake other reasonable duties which may be required.