Senior Pharmacy Support Worker - Aseptics

Job overview

Do you want a varied job, with continuous learning, helping patients from behind the scene and working with great team and in a supportive environment?

Do you like the idea of a technical role working in medicine and can follow procedures?

If so perhaps a role in Pharmacy Aseptic Services is for you?

Aseptic Services is an exciting part of the Pharmacy Department where we provide a range of medicines which are prepared in a clean room environment following Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).

We are looking for a highly motivated individual who is looking for a challenge. Although we are not patient facing, the work we do and the products we prepare are critical to the patients we supply them to in the hospital.

After completing the comprehensive training programme, you will work closely with your team mates preparing products in a clean room environment and using specialist equipment to make chemotherapy, adult TPN and antibiotics etc for patient administration.

This advert will close once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

• To assemble items for aseptic dispensing.
• To label and bag aseptic products for distribution to wards and clinics.
• To be familiar with the use of equipment for the preparation of aseptic products i.e. isolators.
• To respond appropriately to urgent requests from wards / units.
• To dispense drugs for in-patients and out-patients including cytotoxic chemotherapy.
• To provide aseptic products for in-patients and out-patients including cytotoxic chemotherapy, CIVAS, paediatric and neonatal drugs, clinical trials and PN.
• To store aseptic drugs correctly and safely.
• To comply with the departmental Standard Operating Procedures.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information and details about this role please see attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact Natalie Robinson via natalie.robinson36@nhs.net.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.