Senior Pharmacy Assistant - Production

UCLH Pharmacy provides a comprehensive array of services with the overall aim of ensuring safe, effective and economical use of medicines throughout the Trust, supporting education, training and research. Pharmacy is closely involved in all stages of medicines use, from negotiating contracts for the purchase of medicines through to assessing the outcomes of medicine in the clinical setting.
The pharmacy production units prepare sterile medicines, chemotherapy drugs, nutrition solutions, antibiotic injections, to support specialist medical care. The units are located in the Macmillan Cancer Centre.
There is also an exciting project underway which means that we will be opening an Advanced Pharmacy Therapies Unit in 2025 to prepare cell and gene therapy products.
Undertake, after a period of suitable training, the preparation of sterile medicines under supervision. These products are for patients in the UCLH Trust a well as outside organisations
Participate in the daily cleaning programme for the cleanroom areas.
Ensure that all stock levels of raw materials and disposables are checked and maintained and regular orders are placed to the various suppliers. Ensure that orders received into the unit are checked off when they arrive to confirm deliveries are correct
Undertake collection and packing of cleanroom laundry, and ensure that ‘clean’ laundry is stored appropriately
Assemble raw materials and sterile components according to worksheets, and ensure that all relevant sections of the worksheet are filled in correctly
Inspect, pack and label products prepared in the production unit to ensure that they are ready for final checking.
Participate in the microbiological and other environmental monitoring programmes according to the procedures agreed between production and quality control
Deliver products to hospital wards and departments
Undertake broth validation to ensure ongoing validation of aseptic competence
Participate in the exception reporting scheme, ensuring that all deviations from procedures, dispensing errors, and ‘out of limit’ values for monitoring tests are notified to a senior member of staff.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.