Senior Pharmacy Assistant - Clinical Trials

Job overview

This role forms part of the Pharmacy Clinical Trials Team and involves medicines handling and administrative pharmacy duties associated with clinical trials support:

-      Receipts, checks and distribution of medicines

-      Completion and processing of trial documentation

-      Data input and management

-    Co-ordination of orders and prescription processing

Main duties of the job

• Receipt of clinical trial medication, confirming if arrived in good condition and at correct temperature, acknowledging receipt on to the appropriate system, data entry on to the computer system, distribution of medication to the relevant section, accurate completion of appropriate logs.
• Carrying out regular moving and handling tasks involved in duties described, including lifting, pushing, pulling, and transferring large boxes, containers, files and trolleys in accordance with training and risk assessments.
• Participation in ongoing stock control systems for medicines used within trials including stock checks, stock rotation and quality checks. This includes using both computerised and paper-based stock control systems and the processing of documentation in accordance with audit requirements.
• Participation in monthly expiry date checks for clinical trials medication and reporting to team.
• Participation in clinical trial medications returns and destruction processing.
• Checking temperatures of areas used for storage of clinical trial medication, generating data reports and checking the data reports for the monitoring system.
• To maintain Pharmacy files to a high standard. This includes file preparation for new trials, receiving and appropriately filing trial related documentation, retrieving and collating documentation and producing reports required by research Sponsors.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Please be aware that the salary threshold required for a certificate of sponsorship to be granted is above the starting point of the Agenda for Change band for this role. Therefore those that are new to the NHS may not reach the minimum salary threshold required to obtain a certificate of sponsorship.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 15th April 2026

Interviews are due to be held on 24th April 2026

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.