Senior Assistant Technical Officer
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 22/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a dedicated clinical trials senior pharmacy assistant. The post involves supporting the safe, accurate, and efficient management of clinical trial medicines throughout their lifecycle, from receipt and storage to stock management, returns, and destruction. Key duties include managing medication receipt, participating in stock control, conducting expiry date checks, and processing returns and destruction. The assistant will also check storage temperatures and maintain pharmacy files to a high standard.
Key responsibilities
- Receipt of clinical trial medication, confirming condition and temperature, acknowledging receipt, data entry, and distribution.
- Participation in ongoing stock control systems for medicines used within trials, including checks, rotation, and quality checks.
- Participation in monthly expiry date checks for clinical trials medication and reporting to team.
- Participation in clinical trial medications returns and destruction processing.
- Checking temperatures of areas used for storage of clinical trial medication, generating and checking data reports.
- To maintain Pharmacy files to a high standard, including preparation for new trials, filing paperwork, retrieving documentation, and producing reports.
Essential criteria
- Hold a General Pharmacy Council - (recognised Level 2 Pharmacy Services Assistant qualification or equivalent)
- GCSE in Mathematics and English Language (minimum of grade C)
- Knowledge of procedures for dispensary services
- Knowledge of pharmacy computer systems
- Appropriate experience of working in a pharmacy environment
- Be able to provide and receive routine factual information to inform work colleagues, patients/carers that may require tact and persuasion, where there may be barriers to understanding
- Excellent oral and written communication
- Be able to make judgments involving facts or situations, some requiring analysis independently and as a group
- Be able to make sound judgments on how to fulfil urgent requests
Desirable criteria
- GCP training within the last 2 years
- Relevant experience in Hospital Pharmacy Practice
- Knowledge and understanding of technical aspects of pharmacy patient services, supported by practical experience.
- Relevant experience in pharmacy clinical trials (minimum 1 year)
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £31,554 – £33,270 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Assistant Technical Officer
The closing date is 22 September 2026
Job summary
We are seeking a dedicated clinical trials senior pharmacy assistant to join our specialist team. The post will support the safe, accurate and efficient management of clinical trials medicines throughout their lifecycle, from receipt, storage, through to stock management, returns and destruction.
Main duties of the job
o Receipt of clinical trial medication, confirming if arrived in good condition and at correct temperature, acknowledging receipt on to the appropriate system, data entry on to the computer system, distribution to the relevant section, accurate completion of appropriate logs.
o Participation in ongoing stock control systems for medicines used within trials including stock checks, stock rotation and quality checks. This includes using both computerized and paper-based stock control systems and the processing of paperwork in accordance with audit requirements.
o Participation in monthly expiry date checks for clinical trials medication and reporting to team.
o Participation in clinical trial medications returns and destruction processing.
o Checking temperatures of areas used for storage of clinical trial medication, generating data reports and checking the data reports for the monitoring system.
o To maintain Pha
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