Lead Pharmacy Technician - Clinical Trials

Job overview

A new and exciting opportunity has become available for an enthusiastic, proactive and ambitious registered Pharmacy Technician to join our growing Clinical Trials Team at LUHFT to support research across the trust.

Reporting primarily to the Lead Clinical Trials Pharmacist, this role involves leading, developing and delivering the technical elements of the pharmacy clinical trials service.  The post holder will have oversight of the department's facilities, equipment and capacity to ensure ongoing ability to support research activities for LUHFT, University Hospitals of Liverpool Group partners and external organisations.

This is a great time to join the trials and wider pharmacy Team at LUHFT with our ambition to deliver great care with research.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will lead, develop and deliver the technical elements of the pharmacy clinical trials service and have oversight and management of the department's facilities, equipment and capacity to ensure ongoing ability to support research activities including CTIMPs, non-CTIMPs and ATIMPS for LUHFT, University Hospitals of Liverpool Group partners and external organisations (under service level agreements)

The post holder will manage pharmacy clinical trials technical and support staff, including workload allocation, performance, recruitment and selection of staff, career development and sickness absence management. They will directly line manage Band 6 Senior Clinical Trials Technicians (all sites)

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Lead, develop and deliver a cross-site pharmacy clinical trials technical service.

Help set the strategic direction of the pharmacy clinical trial service

Ensure all standard operating procedures for the pharmacy clinical trials service reflect current practice, are maintained and updated as appropriate in line with local governance requirements, UK regulations and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) requirements, and are implemented.

Provide professional leadership for pharmacy clinical trials technical staff

Ensure that activities involved in the provision of clinical trial services receive appropriate remuneration

Develop and maintain IT systems to report monthly and annually in clinical trials activities.

Co-ordinate governance activities for the clinical trials team

Lead training on technical aspects of the clinical trials service

Develop and maintain regular communication and action plans with technical staff from different pharmacy teams of relevance to clinical trials; ensure that the patient experience is a primary focus of all technical and support staff

Support externally contracted manufacturing services required for LUHFT-sponsored research

For full details, please refer to the attached job description