Apprentice Science Manufacturing Technician - Aseptic Services

Job summary

MFT is one of the biggest, most ambitious, and progressive NHS Trusts in the country.

We are looking for an excellent team player who is flexible and self-motivated to enhance our Aseptic Services Team. You will have a professional outlook and able to demonstrate excellent organisational and communication skills providing support to deliver an exceptionally high standard of Aseptic Service.

This is an apprenticeship and candidates will be given 1 day a week to attend college lectures, either in person or remotely to work towards a Level 3 Diploma in the Principles of Aseptic Pharmaceuticals Processing over 2 years. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be qualified as a Science Manufacturing Technician, eligible to register with the Science Council and be employed as a permanent band 4 Science Manufacturing Technician within the Aseptic Services Team.

This role will include Saturday working as part of a rota and Bank Holiday working as part of a rota at the Oxford Road Campus. Post will be based at the Oxford Road Campus with the possibility of cross site working at each site.

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills:

• The ability to work accurately and methodically
• Effectively under pressure and have an excellent eye for detail
• Working to your own initiative to meet deadlines
• Committed to deliver a high standard in patient focused service.

Main duties of the job

You will have responsibility for assisting the Senior Technical Team in the day-to-day management and development of the Aseptic Services Unit Cytotoxic, PN and CIVA Service within MFT.

To carry out aseptic preparation including parenteral nutrition, CIVA, cytotoxic drugs, gene therapy and monoclonal antibodies from point of prescription receipt including accurately measuring volumes, following departmental procedures.

You will be responsible for the transfer disinfection into the aseptic units all items required for aseptic process.

To assist the Senior Technical Team - Aseptic Services in planning, organising and managing the workload in accordance with the capacity plan, ensuring adequate numbers of appropriately trained staff are available to perform tasks required for a given activity level and feeding back information to Senior managers when breaches and constraints occur, following departmental processes.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.