Chief Technician, Aseptic Services

Full time: 37.5 hours per week fixed term maternity cover

The Royal Surrey County Hospital Aseptic Services department supplies aseptic products for St Luke's Cancer Centre and other specialties across the Trust.

This role offers the opportunity to play a critical leadership role in service delivery and development. You would have the lead role for the development of training programmes for all roles in the department. Responsibilities would also include the final check and release of aseptic products and deputising for the Head of Production.

You will have previous experience working in a senior role within aseptic services,

Deputise for the Aseptic Services Manager.

Responsible for the line management of technical staff within the Pharmacy Aseptic Services Unit.

Responsible for final checking and releasing of aseptically prepared  responsible for final check and release of licensed products. The department has an annual workload of up to 55-60,000 items.

Support the Head of Production in the leadership of departmental training .

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.

Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

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Develop and maintain a strong working knowledge of all work, processes and procedures undertaken within the aseptic services department, other areas of Pharmacy and related disciplines.

Propose and implement procedural changes within own area of expertise.

Responsible for keeping all aseptics and rotational staff informed of developments within the department.

Responsible for collating and reporting workload statistics, errors and performance markers, which are reported to the Aseptic Services Manager on a monthly basis.

Responsible for handling verbal complaints and contributing to written responses to  the permit to work system for external contractors to ensure that they have received the necessary training or supervision when entering the cleanroom or undertaking work affecting the cleanroom.

Propose, approve and implement all new procedures and changes to existing procedures within the department.

Develop and maintain a strong working knowledge of all work, processes and procedures undertaken within the aseptic services department, other areas of Pharmacy and related disciplines.

Propose and implement procedural changes within own area of expertise. Sign off records of evidence for pre-registration pharmacists and NVQ trainees ensuring the evidence produced is valid.

Assist with training in aseptic technique for new staff and supervise newly validated staff during aseptic production if required.

Supervise the validation work of other Aseptic staff as necessary.

Undertake certificated training each year to be able to final check and deliver intrathecal chemotherapy to wards in accordance with hospital policy.

Ensure process validations including sterility and decontamination validations are undertaken as necessary.

Successfully complete accreditations for in-process and calculation checking of aseptically prepared products. Successfully complete accreditations for the final checking and release of aseptically prepared products. Undertake Continuing Professional Development and keep up to date with current legislation and best practice in the specialised field of Aseptic Services.

Interpret prescriptions and intervene regarding dosing, routes of administration, timescales, methods of drug delivery and appropriateness of  responsible for in process checking of aseptically prepared products having undergone the appropriate accreditation.

Ensure products are prepared in a timely manner in order to meet agreed turnaround times for wards and external customers. Prioritise workload accordingly.

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