Assistant Technical Officer Pharmacy Aseptic Services

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is seeking an Assistant Technical Officer to support the Pharmacy Aseptic Services and Cancer Services, following relocation to enhance clinical trials delivery. You will help with dispensing, receiving trial medications, filing, and temperature monitoring in the trials unit and prefill area.

Qualifications include four GCSEs including English, Maths and a Science, or Level 2 NVQ in Pharmacy Services.

Qualifications

• Four GCSEs to include English, Maths and a Science subject or equivalent.
• Computer skills are required for this role.
• NVQ Level 2 Pharmacy or equivalent is required for the role.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacists in the provision of the broad range of services provided by the Aseptic Services unit working under the supervision of the Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacists.
• Provides pharmacy service including dispensing drugs to patients, and other supportive duties in the pharmacy aseptic unit.
• Support the work of the Aseptic Services in the provision of an early start, late night, weekend and bank holiday service.

Skills

Pharmacy experience

Aseptic work

Clinical trials

Dispensing

Education

GCSEs including English, Maths and Science

NVQ Level 2 Pharmacy or equivalent

Tools

Computer Skills

Job description

Main area Pharmacy Grade Band 3 Contract 12 months (1.6 WTE Band 3 for 12 months fixed term contract (1 post at 37.5 hours per week, 1 post at 22.5 hours per week).) Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (0.6 WTE @ 22.5 hours per week. Early starts, late nights, weekends and Bank Holiday on a rota.) Job ref 225-DIV3JD-8212613

Employer The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site New Cross Hospital Town Wolverhampton Salary £25,760 - £27,476 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 17/09/2026 23:59

Assistant Technical Officer Pharmacy Aseptic Services

Band 3

Job overview

Are you ready for this exciting opportunity to come and work in our NEW Cancer Services and Clinical trials area to help us expand and enhance our service provision? If so, this post could be the opportunity you are looking for. Due to our recent re-location, we are looking for a motivated Assistant Technical Officer, to help us deliver a high-quality service to our patients.
Assistant Technical Officer required to support the clinical trials team in our very busy Pharmacy Trials Unit and Cancer Services. Duties include assisting clinical trials team with smooth delivery of clinical trials, dispensing of medication, receipt of trial medication, filing and assisting in monitoring temperature where clinical trials medication is stored. There will be requirement to work in the Cancer Services prefill area dispensing chemotherapy treatments. Creating databases and inputting information.

The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust is a large teaching hospital with an extensive R&D portfolio. The Pharmacy Department has close links with the Undergraduate School of Pharmacy at Wolverhampton University and is actively involved in teaching undergraduate students.

Qualifications required are four GCSE's to include English, Maths and a Science subject or working towards Level 2 NVQ in Pharmacy Services Skills. On the job training will be given. Experience of Pharmacy work and computer skills is required. Previous experience of dispensing is essential for this role.

Main duties of the job

Assist the Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacists in the provision of the broad range of services provided by the Aseptic Services unit working under the supervision of the Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacists.

Provides pharmacy service including dispensing drugs to patients, and other supportive duties in the pharmacy aseptic unit.

Support the work of the Aseptic Services in the provision of an early start, late night, weekend and bank holiday service.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good”by CQC. We have achievednumerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Trust website for the full job description and person specification attached to the vacancy.

Person specification

Education

• Four GCSEs to include English, Maths and a Science subject or equivalent
• Computer Skills
• NVQ Level 2 Pharmacy or equivalent

Experience

• Pharmacy/ Aseptic Experience
• Clinical Trials Experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Andrew Holmes (Aseptic Services 01902 695139) or Kelly Kauldhar (Clinical Trials 01902 695131) for an informal chat or to visit the department