Senior Clinical Trials Pharmacy Assistant

Senior Clinical Trials Pharmacy Assistant

Main area Pharmacy Grade NHS AfC:
Band 3 Contract Permanent: 1 Saturday day per 6 week period Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (1 Saturday day per 6 week period) Job
-CORP-7696529-B3

Site Churchill Hospital / John Radcliffe Hospital Town Oxford Salary £24,937 - £26,598 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 16/03/2026 23:59 Interview date 20/03/2026

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals – the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Senior Clinical Trials Pharmacy Assistant – Band 3 – Permanent.

Hello! My name is Lina and I am the Clinical Trials Pharmacy Technician Team Manager for the Clinical Trials Pharmacy in Oxford. As a Senior Technician I manage and support our technical team of Pharmacy Technicians, Assistants and Practitioners, providing support services to clinical trial research teams on all our Trust sites throughout Oxfordshire.

The Clinical Trials Pharmacy consists of Pharmacists, Technicians, Assistants and Practitioners. We work closely with research teams across the trust and external representatives.

The majority of correspondence will be via the e‑recruitment system; therefore you should check your emails regularly, including junk mail folders in web‑based email products.

As a Senior Clinical Trials Pharmacy Assistant you will have an extremely varied role – you will be involved in maintaining the supply chain of Clinical Trial medications to research nurses who deliver treatment to patients, maintaining financial records, completing drug accountability activities, closing down and archiving of completed studies, as well as facilitating meetings from sponsors.

A successful candidate should possess BTEC Level 2 in Pharmacy Service Skills, equivalent qualification or related degree (i.e. pharmaceutical or science degree). Applicants without these qualifications will be considered but will be required to undertake the provided relevant qualification in Pharmacy Service Skills.

Regrettably, this advertised position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Core Role – Pharmacy Clinical Trials

• Obtain and maintain Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training.
• Apply principles of GCP in the management of clinical trials and work within the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trial) Regulations 2004 and EU directive relating to Clinical Trials.
• Communicate with Investigators, Research Nurses, Trust R&D, Sponsors, Clinical Research Associates and Pharmacy staff during the set‑up and running of a clinical trial.
• Ensure clinical trial protocols and SOPs are followed during dispensing of investigational medicinal products and other drugs included in the protocol.
• Order and receive clinical trial drugs, process receipt paperwork and acknowledge receipt on IVRS (Electronic Medication Supply) systems.
• Check stock levels and expiry dates of clinical trial drugs and keep balance logs up to date.
• Assist with packing down and re‑labeling of clinical trial drugs if required.
• Assist with the preparation for monitoring meetings, audits and inspections.
• Maintain clinical trial files ensuring items can easily be located and are presentable.
• Process returned clinical trial drugs and ensure the paperwork is kept in order.
• Participate in the statutory temperature monitoring of clinical trial stock.
• Assist with the destruction of clinical trial medication.
• Assist with the closedown and archiving of clinical trial files.
• Represent the Clinical Trials…