Senior Pharmacy Assistant - Preston, United Kingdom - Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Preston, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Our Pharmacy Department hosts a well-established Pharmacy Manufacturing unit (PMU) for unlicensed medicines.

We hold a MHRA specials license that allows us to produce a wide range of aseptic and classically manufactured products.

Pharmacy Technicians and Quality Assurance specialists lead in the preparation of chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, antibiotics, oral medicines, re-packing and over-labelling of tablets and assembly of resuscitation boxes.

The patients we treat are often the sickest and most vulnerable and these medicines are not available commercially so it is imperative that we get it right.

Adhering to strict clothing and personal hygiene procedures is essential and due to the critical nature of our work you will have to meet the highest standards of discipline, attention to detail and clean room behaviours.

We are looking for a reliable, enthusiastic and energetic senior pharmacy assistant to join our friendly team in the Aseptic unit.

You will work as a member of the team supporting the production of a range of injectable medicines, Your main duties will be to work within the cleanrooms, where Pharmacy Isolators are used to supervise the staff and processes being undertaken.

Knowledge and experience of Aseptic preparation and attention to detail is essential

You will have excellent communication skills and leadership skills. You will also be able to concentrate for long periods of time whilst carrying out accurate, detailed work.

The post requires working evenings and bank holidays.

We have 9000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients.

Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done.

You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things.

Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

Communicates all relevant information and advice to the pharmacy, nursing and medical teams; patients and service users; and to external organisations as required
Supports PMU to provide safe and high quality medicinal products under the terms of our MHRA specials licence
Contributes to effective team working within PMU and across pharmacy.
Acts as a role model, presenting a positive image of self, team and the organisation.
Develops positive relationships with internal and external key personnel.
Complies with legal and organisational requirements, standards and codes of practice on equality, diversity, discrimination and rights relevant to own role and responsibilities.
Maintains and develops own competence and seeks to extend the scope of personal knowledge and skills within scope of role and professional practice, policies and legislation.
Supports the training and development of PMU team.
Completes the mandatory Trust training.
To ensure the quality of Aseptically prepared injectable medicines.
To comply with current legislation, good practice, organisational and professional codes of practice and ethical standards.
To ensure compliance with medicines legislation.
To ensure any incidents and errors are identified, reported and recorded according to Trust policy.
Proactively manage risk and maintain safety, conforming to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.
Contribute to the delivery of the Department Service plan and developments
Support the Department to deliver PET targets and achieve financial balance