Clinical Services Aseptic Services Pharmacy Technician

Aseptic Services Pharmacy Technician

Location
Cromwell Hospital London
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Job Description:

Aseptic Pharmacy Services Technician

Cromwell Hospital, 164-178 Cromwell Road, London SW5 0TU

£36,300 plus benefits

Permanent

Fulltime, 37.5hrs a week

Monday to Friday

Shifts 9am-5:30pm


We make health happen

As a Clinician at Bupa our patients will be your top priority. With no shareholders, we reinvest our profits back into our business to give you the extra time and technology you need to make a difference to our patients each and every day.

The Cromwell Hospital, our flagship private hospital in West London, delivers world-class inpatient and outpatient care. With 180 beds, 6 theatres, advanced intensive care units, paediatrics, diagnostics, physiotherapy, and private GP services - it's a centre of excellence for complex care and innovation.

Joining Bupa, you'll benefit from access to our state-of-the art Clinical Training Facility, a centre for connected learning, care and careers. This forms part of Bupa Campus, a vibrant new learning initiative which brings us together in virtual and physical spaces across the Bupa globe.

The pharmacy service is open on Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 8pm and Saturday from 9:00am to 2.30pm

You'll help us make health happen by:

The Pharmacy Oncology Department is looking to recruit a highly motivated and dedicated Pharmacy Technician to support the delivery of exceptional hospital pharmacy aseptic services.

The successful candidate will join our committed and friendly team within the Satellite Oncology Pharmacy and Aseptic Unit, located on Level 2 at Cromwell Hospital. In this role, you will contribute to the preparation of systemic anti-cancer treatment (SACT) and associated cancer and non-cancer treatments for our patients.

A comprehensive in-house training programme will be provided, during which you will gain detailed knowledge of our cleanroom environment and the stringent procedures required to maintain the highest standards of cleanliness, safety, and operational efficiency. You will work within our busy Aseptic Unit, operating under Section 10 of the Medicines Act 1968, ensuring compliance with all relevant protocols and regulatory requirements

What you'll do

  • Work as a member of the oncology pharmacy aseptic production team in delivering a safe, effective and efficient SACT and non SACT aseptic dispensing service in accordance with the SOPs of the unit.
  • Perform daily/weekly/monthly environmental monitoring in the aseptic unit.
  • Undertake general ”housekeeping” duties and aseptic unit sanitisation to maintain a clean, tidy, and safe working environment on a daily/weekly and monthly basis.
  • Assemble ingredients for items to be prepared according to worksheet and SOPs. Recording batch numbers and expiry dates, checking for any particle's discolouration or breakages.
  • Produce labels and add charges for the medicines to be dispensed for patients.
  • Conducting a sanitisation process on all drugs and equipment being passed into the cleanroom and critical work zones following departmental Standard Operating Procedures, using the specified sanitisation agents.
  • Routinely compound SACT products including Monoclonal Antibodies & Cytotoxic drugs, requiring developed skills e.g. accurate manipulation, attention to detail, competence & precision whilst measuring and checking volumes and ingredients.
  • Undertake environmental monitoring duties including monitoring and recording of temperatures and aseptic unit pressures to ensure products are manufactured within a suitable environment
  • Stock control duties including unpacking, stock takes and ordering of medicinal products and consumables.
  • Generate chemotherapy worksheets and labels according to prescription.
  • Dispensing and labelling of pharmaceutical products for in-patient/day case and out-patients.
  • To undertake and successfully complete in-house training programmes and associated competencies within a reasonable time frame.
  • Compounding of components using negative pressure isolators and wearing all appropriate PPE.

What you'll bring:

  • GSCEs in Science/Maths/English.
  • BTEC / NVQ3 in Pharmaceutical Science/ Pharmacy Skills/PTTP (or equivalent)
  • Registered Pharmacy Technician with GPHC
  • A minimum of 1-year hospital experience in an Aseptic service pharmacy technician role

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

  • Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
  • Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
  • An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
  • Annual performance-based bonus
  • Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work
  • Various other benefits and online discounts
  • Free onsite massages as a recognition for your hard work
  • Opportunity to participate in our annual awards ceremony

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to ”Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

At Bupa we strive to ensure all our of customers, patients and staff are safe. All employees have a duty to ensure that safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk is prioritised and acted on appropriately.

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com

If you would like more information on the role or require an alternative format, please contact serina.kapoor@bupa.com

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Clinical Services

Locations:

Cromwell Hospital London

Aseptic Services Pharmacy Technician

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Cromwell Hospital London
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Cromwell
Hospital

At Cromwell Hospital, we have a great team of determined and loyal health care professionals. We’re continually investing in the world’s most advanced diagnostic and treatment technologies. That's why patients choose to come to us from across the UK, and more than 100 other countries around the world.

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Our
purpose

Bupa’s purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We do this by providing a broad range of healthcare services, support and advice to people throughout their lives. People are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we make health happen.

Our
values

Every company needs an ethos, and we're no different. Through good days and challenging times, we always work with our values in mind. These are: Brave - Make new possibilities happen. Caring - Act with empathy and respect. Responsible - Own your decisions and actions.

We don't have shareholders at Bupa, which means we're free to invest our profits where they matter: our patients, our facilities, our research, and you. 

As a healthcare provider, we have a duty to do the right thing. By our customers, our people and our partners. The Bupa Code holds us to this duty. It's our promise to protect, care for, and build trust with everyone who relies on us.

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Free to be
you

Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. 

You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.Free
to be you.

Back in September 2018, we made a pledge. That we'd do whatever we could to make Bupa a diverse, kind and inclusive place to work.

Everyone deserves a positive working environment. Everyone deserves to have their voice heard. Everyone deserves freedom from bullying, harassment and discrimination.

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Aseptic Services Pharmacy Technician

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Cromwell Hospital London
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Full Time
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