Senior Aseptic Medicines Technician

VerseOne Group; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS Trust in Chelmsford is seeking an enthusiastic pharmacy assistant/technician to support the delivery of safe, high‑quality medicines in a timely manner. You will join a team of pharmacists, technicians and assistants and will receive structured training with the potential to undertake NVQ level 2 in the role.

In clean rooms you will prepare medicines using isolators, calculate doses, assemble products and perform checks to maintain aseptic standards.

Qualifications

• Essential: GCSE or equivalent qualifications in Mathematics and English to entry level standards
• Desirable: NVQ level 2 pharmacy aseptics

Responsibilities

• To carry out all work following standard operating procedures.
• Manufacture chemotherapy, clinical trials and other intravenous additives.
• Assembly, labelling and accuracy checking of aseptic products.
• Prepare and calculate worksheets, transcribing patient information and doses from chemocare.
• Daily checks to be carried out reporting any out of specification results.
• Complete environmental monitoring testing duties, e.g. contact plates, weekly plates and isolator leak testing.
• Stock management.
• Maintaining all operator validations.

Skills

Attention to detail

Healthcare experience

Education

GCSE Maths and English

NVQ level 2 Pharmacy Aseptics

Job description

The NHS Trust in Chelmsford is seeking an enthusiastic pharmacy assistant/technician to support the delivery of safe, high‑quality medicines in a timely manner. You will join a team of pharmacists, technicians and assistants and will receive structured training with the potential to undertake NVQ level 2 in the role.

In clean rooms you will prepare medicines using isolators, calculate doses, assemble products and perform checks to maintain aseptic standards.