Job overview
We require an experienced member of Pharmacy Production staff to join our team working in our licenced, commercial aseptic unit at Queen's Hospital. The postholder will be responsible for the preparation of Parenteral Nutrition and other injectable products such as antibiotics, patient-controlled analgesia and cytotoxics and the training of new starters in these critical production techniques. The postholder will also be responsible for raw material and label checking for batches of product to be prepared. The postholder must be experienced in aseptic pharmaceutical preparation and must be methodical, accurate and able to work as part of the team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will carry out specialist aseptic dispensing and in process checking in a professional manner, helping provide a high quality, customer orientated service to the standards required. The post holder will also be required to take part in the training of Pharmacy Production Assistants in aseptic techniques and Good Manufacturing Practice.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we’re no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and that our patients are happy with.
Many of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London – more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.
Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It’ll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role.Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Aseptic Processing Course and extensive experience of aseptic processing
Desirable criteria
2. SMT in Aseptics or working towards this
3. NVQ3 Pharmacy Qualification
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
4. Demonstrate attention to detail and accuracy
5. Excellent communication skills
Experience/Knowledge
Desirable criteria
6. Staff supervision
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.