Pharmacy Assistant Aseptic services - #137441

Job Overview

If you would like to be involved in the process of manufacturing life saving cancer treatments for adults and children, then this is the job for you!

We are looking for one committed and motivated person to join our small aseptics team at Wexham Park Hospital.

You must possess good communication skills and be able to work to tight deadlines in this busy and challenging environment. Computer literacy and attention to detail is also important.

Previous experience of working in pharmacy aseptics would be an advantage.

There will be an opportunity to work in a brand new, state of the art aseptic unit currently in design phase.

Main duties of the job

• To prepare worksheets and produce labels using the pharmacy computer system.
• To dispense products using the pharmacy computer system.
• To oversee and carry out ‘environmental monitoring’ within the chemotherapy unit, including monitoring temperatures and pressures.
• To undertake in-house validation to sanitise raw materials and equipment for use in clean room areas.
• To carry out cleaning of clean room, support areas and equipment following defined standard operating procedures on a daily, weekly, three monthly and annual basis along with other general housekeeping duties required in the chemotherapy unit.
• To take part in stock counting and expiry date checking of all raw material and outsourced goods.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• To carry out an accreditation to generate worksheets and labels using the pharmacy computer system.
• To oversee and carry out ‘environmental monitoring’ within the chemotherapy unit, including monitoring temperatures and pressures.
• To undertake and pass validations in order to become accredited to sanitise raw materials and equipment for use in clean room areas.
• To carry out cleaning of clean room, support areas and equipment following defined standard operating procedures on a daily, weekly, three monthly and annual basis along with other general housekeeping duties required in the aseptic unit.
• To undergo an accreditation to assemble raw materials and equipment necessary for production of cytotoxic products.
• To take part in stock counting and expiry date checks of raw materials and outsourced goods. in the aseptic unit. To ensure efficient stock rotation to minimise waste.
• To collect raw materials and equipment from pharmacy stores when require.
• To accurately input data using the pharmacy computer systems, including booking out and the return of pharmaceutical items.
• To undertake general chemotherapy unit administration, including filing.
• To deliver urgent medication to wards and departments as necessary.
• To contribute ideas and suggestions for service improvement and too take part in and contribute to team meetings.
  
  

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• 4 GCSEs (or equivalent) including Maths and English grade C and above
• Ability to work towards National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) Level 2 in Pharmacy Services (if not already qualified)
  
  

Desirable criteria

• National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) Level 2
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Dealing with people in a working environment
• Prepared to receive training in all aspects of chemotherapy services
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of pharmacy or working in a hospital
• Knowledge of Pharmacy
• Understanding of Good Manufacturing Practice
• Aware of risks of chemotherapy agents
  
  

SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES FOR ROLE

Essential criteria

• Ability to prioritise tasks and time
• Good Communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to pay attention to detail
• Accuracy
  
  

Desirable criteria

• IT Skills
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Self-motivated
• Resilient, enthusiastic, good listener
• Expresses ideas well
• Clean, tidy, methodical worker, aware of the need for hygienic work practice
• Able to lift and handle heavy loads
• Able to spend all day on feet
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Ability to work flexible hours
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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