# Pharmacy Technician Technical/Cancer Service

**Company**: NHS Professionals Limited
**Location**: Watford
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: bank
**Salary**: £21.95 an hour
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician in West Hertfordshire Hospital NHS Trust to join the Pharmacy Department at Watford General Hospital.

You will be responsible for providing technical pharmacy support to the Pharmacy Production and Aseptic Services, ensuring that all products are prepared efficiently, safely, and cost-effectively in line with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and departmental procedures.

Your main duties will include:

- Manipulating a variety of pharmaceutical compounds into patient-specific, usable products, including aseptic dispensing of cytotoxic and biological medicinal products

- Managing your competency in aseptic dispensing, ensuring that all products are prepared according to standard operating procedures

- Supporting the team by participating in the isolator cleaning rota and maintaining the controlled environment

- Stock management and control within Technical Services Pharmacy, including monitoring inventory, tracking stock usage, ordering and procurement of goods, and conducting expiry date checks

- Providing pharmaceutical advice to patients, carers, and ward staff

- Supervising the activities of Pharmacy Assistants, Student Production Technicians, and Production Technicians

- Maintaining the pharmacy manufacturing unit facilities, including monitoring, calibration, validation, and general upkeep

The role also involves supporting research and clinical trial activities, including applying Good Clinical Practice (GCP), maintaining trial documentation, and liaising with investigators, sponsors, and research staff.

You will be expected to contribute to the development and documentation of safe systems of work within Technical Services, including drafting Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and risk assessments.

## Benefits

- Career progression and access to Learning & Development opportunities

- Flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources, and paid annual leave

- Opportunity to work across over 50 partner NHS Trusts

## Requirements

- NVQ 3 or BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent qualification

- Science Manufacturing Technician Level 3 apprenticeship completed

- Registered with a relevant professional body

- Minimum 2 years post-qualification experience, including hospital preparative/aseptic services

- Practical knowledge of GMP, QA, Pharmaceutical Quality Systems, and familiarity with chemotherapy regimens

- Experience with EMIS (Ascribe), BD Cato, or ChemoCare systems desirable

## Skills

### Required
- GMP
- QA
- Pharmaceutical Quality Systems
- chemotherapy regimens
- EMIS (Ascribe)
- BD Cato
- ChemoCare

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