King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Assistant Technical Officer
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Role Overview
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.
Key Responsibilities
- Receipt of clinical trial medication: Confirming if arrived in good condition and at the correct temperature, acknowledging receipt on the appropriate system, data entry onto the computer system, distribution to the relevant section, and accurate completion of appropriate logs.
- Stock Control Systems: Participation in ongoing stock control systems for medicines used within trials, including stock checks, stock rotation, quality checks, and the processing of paperwork in accordance with audit requirements.
- Expiry Date Checks: Participation in monthly expiry date checks for clinical trials medication and reporting to the team.
- Returns and Destruction: Participation in clinical trial medications returns and destruction processing.
- Temperature Monitoring: Checking temperatures of areas used for storage of clinical trial medication, generating data reports, and checking the data reports for the monitoring system.
- Pharmacy Files: Maintaining pharmacy files to a high standard. This includes file preparation for new trials, receiving and appropriately filing trial-related paperwork, retrieving and collating documentation, and producing reports required by research Sponsors.
- Modifications and Invoicing: Assisting with recording/processing of modifications as required and entering/compiling data required for invoicing as required.
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About Us
The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. In June 2026, we launched our new strategy for 2026-31. Our vision is to transform healthcare, and we have agreed on six strategic ambitions to help us improve care for patients and the working lives of our staff.
Our Strategic Ambitions
- Delivering high-quality patient care
- Creating a great place to work
- Leading pioneering research, innovation, and education
- Building strong and successful partnerships
- Providing timely and efficient care
- Ensuring long-term financial sustainability
We have also agreed on four new organizational values – Caring, Collaborative, Inclusive, Innovative – and these underpin everything we do, and how our teams interact with the patients under our care.
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Why Join Us?
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
Commitment to Sustainability
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimizing their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste, and pollution wherever possible.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits, please contact:
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Name: Kit Lai
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Job Title: Deputy Chief Pharmacist Operations
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Email Address: kit.lai@nhs.net
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Telephone Number: 02032992087
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Name: Vicky Chu
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Job Title: Principal Pharmacist Clinical Trials
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