Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Exciting Career Opportunity: Pharmacy or Science Manufacturing Technician!
Join our dynamic team at the Aseptic Dispensing Unit, Sherwood Forest Hospitals! We are looking for passionate individuals ready to make a difference. If you have completed your course and are awaiting professional registration, we want to hear from you!
What We Offer:
* Comprehensive Training:Benefit from a robust induction program with full support from our dedicated education and training team.
* Wellbeing Support: Access to our department and Trust wellbeing champions and resources to ensure you thrive both professionally and personally.
Main duties of the job
* Be a Registered Pharmacy Technician with the GPHC or a Registered Science Manufacturing Technician with the Science Council.
* Hold BTEC/NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences or Science Manufacturing.
* Have experience working in an Aseptic Dispensing Unit.
* Applicants awaiting qualification will be considered.
About us
Thank you for your interest in this role.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here, and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall, we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients; we also care for you.
Our culture of learning, compassion and taking a person-centred approach are at the roots of our organisation.
We would love you to join us!
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more details, please read the attached job description and person specification documents
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
* Knowledge of dispensing processes
* Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice and COSHH regulations
* Knowledge of specialised production technical practice.
* Knowledge of Good manufacturing Practice
* Knowledge of COSHH regulations
* Further IT skills including 'word' and 'Excel' programs
Qualifications
* NVQ 3 / BTEC in pharmaceutical science or equivalent
* Registered Technician with General Pharmaceutical Council
* A levels
Further Training
* To have completed in house training for preparation of intrathecal injections, or be willing to do so and undertake annual update
* Validated to check volumes and drug additions, or be willing to undertake validation.
* Validated aseptic technique, or be willing to undertake validation
* Validation involves 3 monthly broth transfer tests.
* Validated, or be willing to undertake annual transfer validations
Experience
* Recent and up-to-date post qualification hospital pharmacy experience
* Aseptic work experience
* Good verbal and written communication skills
* Hospital pharmacy experience, including aseptic production work
Contractual Requirements
* Neonatal on call rota
* No long-term infectious diseases or drug allergies precluding sterile/non-sterile production work.
* Regular fire lectures and manual handling training
* Annual intrathecal training and on register for preparation of intrathecal injections
* Ability to travel between hospital sites.
* Required to travel between sites
* Telephone owner
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.
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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