Applicants must be a pharmacy technician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. Provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service at UHCW, working as an expert practitioner, providing advice and consultancy to patients, healthcare professionals and other agencies relating to pharmaceutical aspects of treating patients within your clinical speciality. You will be self-motivated and organised with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You will be able to work effectively alone and as part of a team and will contribute to the process of service development and innovation. Detailed responsibilities: 1. To operationally manage the Pharmacy Medicines Research Unit (PMRU). To include day to day running, staffing levels, co-ordination of staff training and workload (e.g. dispensing, stock control, setup of new studies, implementation of amendments, monitoring visits, IMP destruction/reconciliation, auditing etc). To report on key performance indicators and raise any service-related issues to the Lead Pharmacist Clinical Trials. 2. Ensure that pharmaceuticals dispensed in clinical trials conducted by the Trust comply with all EU, HRA, HSE, Home Office and MHRA legal and good practice requirements by liaising with and providing advice to: The Research and Development department Lead Pharmacist Clinical Trial and the Pharmacy Clinical Trials Team Clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, ATOs and administration staff Pharmacy department managers including Quality Control, Aseptic Services and Dispensaries. Pharmaceutical Company Clinical Research Associates Contract Research Organisations 3. Ensure that patients receive appropriate information on the pharmaceutical aspects of a clinical trial by providing written information for dispensary staff and answering specific queries from all clinical staff and patients. 4. Maintain a system to ensure that the pharmacy department receives all income due from pharmaceutical companies for trial work undertaken and that changes to contracts are reviewed and appropriate for the work undertaken. 5. In liaison with other team leaders and senior technicians, take responsibility of technicians/ senior technician support in clinical trials. 6. To support the implementation of quality improvement, new services (e.g. implementation of ATMP studies) and regional and national initiatives, such as the HRA Technical Review and EDGE Trial Management System. Changes should follow change control procedures. 7. Work collaboratively with other Trusts Pharmacies in the West Midlands network regarding clinical trials. For further details of the role please see the attached job description.