Site Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub Town Seaton Delaval Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 03/03/2025 23:59
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you :
* Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
* Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
* A range of flexible working opportunities
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
* Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
* On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
* Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
An exceptional opportunity has arisen to provide Education and Learning leadership within the purpose built Medicines Manufacturing Centre (MMC). Based in Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, the MMC will produce sterile injectable medicinal products in line with MHRA Good Manufacturing Practice on behalf of the North East and North Cumbria Provider Collaborative. The post holder will be responsible for the education and training team within the MMC.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
* To support the delivery of a GMP compliant manufacturing that optimizes the regional benefit from the £30 million funding provided by NHSE.
* Provide educational, advice and support to ensure GMP compliance within the MMC. This includes supporting the Head of Production and Head of Quality within MHRA inspections, which are essential for continuity of the MMCs manufacturing licence.
* Responsible for the management of the education and training team.
The MMC is in the late stages of design, with the facility build phase planned through to September 2025. This presents an exciting opportunity to be involved in the design and build of a new facility, the development of new production process and contribution to establishing a functional PQS for the facility.
A successful candidate will be integral in recruitment of the quality control team, tendering of all QC equipment / systems and creation of quality control procedures.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Facilitate the identification, development and delivery of specialist and non-specialist training across all roles in the MMC.
* Identify and implement systems to support the collection, recording and presentation of training progress/compliance data, to meet internal and external (including MHRA licence) needs, liaising with relevant trust/provider teams as appropriate.
* Plan and co-ordinate and line-manage the work of the training team, in conjunction with operational managers, to ensure timely completion of induction, development, competency, work placements/trainees, mandatory and licence training requirements across all MMC staff roles
* Deliver training and undertake assessments within their area of expertise.
* Keep up to date with developments across Training disciplines and make recommendations for improvements to ensure innovation and best practice are routinely addressed.
* Work with MMC production and quality staff to ensure operational changes are reflected in training design and delivery.
* To negotiate and manage external or sub-contracted training provision. Supports quality management system and MHRA licence compliance through audits, implementation and investigation of deviations, providing staff training and re-training as deemed necessary.
* To represent the training department/functions during MHRA/external audits.
* To act as initial contact for MMC staff in managing complex training and performance issues as they arise, seeking advice/ management from senior production team as and when necessary.
* To deliver training which addresses and supports Health and Safety.
* To contribute to the development of a regional academy-based approach.
* To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
* Knowledge of a range of specific project areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training, plus further specialist project management knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent Knowledge.
* S/NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services and approved underpinning knowledge e.g. BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent recognised pharmacy technician qualification.
* Professional Registered with GPhC or HCPC or Joint Professional Body (i.e. RSC, RPS, RBS).
* Registered clinical scientists with MSc in clinical pharmaceutical sciences or equivalent level.
Experience and knowledge
* Experience in using GMP pharmaceutical quality systems.
* Experience of QC lab skills / testing requirements in pharmaceutical manufacture of sterile medicines.
* Experience in training QA staff.
* Experience of GMP stores requirements and training of warehouse staff.
* Experience of managing training programmes e.g., GMP competency assessment and regular revalidation of staff in production and QC.
* Significant practical experience of Isolator Technology.
* Significant experience of organising and undertaking training of technical and support staff.
* Significant experience of appraising staff and setting objectives.
* Extensive theoretical knowledge and practical experience of Good Manufacturing Practice.
* Practical experience of Pharmaceutical Quality Management Systems.
* Experience of a busy manufacturing/production service as a Leader e.g. organising work, staff rotas, scheduling work, service delivery, capacity and contingency planning.
* Experience of Production and Aseptic Services.
* Experience of CIVA, PN, Cytotoxics and aseptic manufacturing as well as the manufacture of sterile and nonsterile products.
* Management training.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Positive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
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