technician Gillingham, England
Job description
Job Title: Radiopharmacy Technician
Division: Unplanned & Integrated Care
Band: 6
Salary: £35,392 - £42,618 per annum/pro rata
Interview Date: Wednesday 30th August 2023
We are recruiting for aRadiopharmacy Technician who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
The post holder will act as a Radiopharmacy Technician in providing a high quality and specialist radiopharmacy service to meet the needs of the Medway NHS Foundation Trust and neighbouring nuclear medicine departments under Service Level Agreements and play a significant role in the aseptic preparation activities in a licensed radiopharmacy.
Preparation activities include reconstitution of diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals to EU Good Manufacturing Practice whilst ensuring compliance with the standard provisions for the Medway NHS Foundation Trust Manufacturer’s ‘Specials’ Licence and all other relevant provisions/guides/EC Directives where applicable to licensed activities.
Radiolabelling of blood products, routine and non-routine product and equipment related quality control testing to defined protocols as laid down in the Radiopharmacy Quality Manual will also be performed.
Our values areBold,Every Person Counts,Sharing and Open andTogether. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
The Radiopharmacy consists of a team of friendly, enthusiastic and hardworking multidisciplinary professionals who strive to provide the best possible clinical radiopharmacy service to all of its users.
Your main responsibility is the day-to-day delivery of a comprehensive clinical radiopharmacy service which includes the reconstitution of radiopharmaceutical products under the terms of our manufacturing licence, radiolabelling of blood products, routine and non-routine quality control testing of products and equipment.
You will be expected to actively participate in service improvement and maintenance of the quality management system to ensure compliance with the principles of EU GMP.
Perform physical environmental monitoring of the Radiopharmacy including temperature monitoring of the facility and refrigerators, room pressure differential monitoring, routine checking of isolators and radionuclide dose calibrators and microbiological monitoring to written schedules to ensure compliance with current standards and report all quality exceptions to the Production Manager and/or the QA Manager. Record all results in the appropriate records.
Perform a range of routine and non-routine laboratory and radiopharmaceutical quality control tests to defined protocols as laid out in the Radiopharmacy Quality Manual, ensuring that all quality control testing results are accurately recorded on the appropriate logs and that any quality exceptions found is immediately reported to the Radiopharmacy QA Manager and/or the Radiopharmacy Production Manager.
