Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Town Liverpool
Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 05/03/2025 23:59
Band 8a
Job overview
PHARMACY DEPARTMENT
Aseptic Production Unit – Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Band 8A + EDC Full time (37.5 hours per week)
We are a major acute teaching Trust offering a wide range of clinical specialities, including tertiary referrals for HIV and Renal Medicine.
Pharmacy at LUHFT has a highly regarded Aseptic Production Unit (APU) with a brand-new Manufacturing site licensed in June 2023.
Your input will be vital in the development of facilities, production processes, service delivery, workforce configuration & growth. You will contribute to all production related elements at site and ensure that quality is at the centre of everything we do for our patients across the NHS and private healthcare settings.
With significant experience of managing a technically trained team within a GMP healthcare setting, the post holder will be capable of working under pressure, prioritising to deadlines and multi-tasking.
The post provides an ideal opportunity to further develop specialist technical skills. If you are a forward-thinking and innovative pharmacist, with a desire to embrace new challenges, why not join us in Liverpool.
The post holder will contribute to overseeing the operational quality aspects of all production processes, in a cost effective and operationally efficient manner and for assuring the quality of all unlicensed medicines manufactured and prepared within Royal Liverpool Pharmaceuticals (RLP).
After a period of training and assessment the post holder will be named as a releasing officer in the Quality Manual and Site Master File.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for communication with all key stakeholders in the supply of all Specials (Unlicensed Medicines) prepared within the Aseptic Production Unit. This will include internal and external customers, patients, staff and other healthcare professionals.
Lead on Operational Quality matters such as microbiological and physical environmental monitoring, Component and Consumable assessments, raw material quality assessment and approval for use within manufacture and preparation of medicines.
Review and update PMU policies and procedures, in light of changes to legislation and Trust Policy or process changes at site instigated via ‘change control’ mechanisms.
Provides specialist clinical & technical advice to doctors, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals on delivery of intravenous Nutrition, CIVAS products & chemotherapy for Adults & Children.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) Member.
* Post graduate certificate or diploma in a relevant pharmaceutical field or equivalent knowledge and skills developed via on job training.
* Highly developed Professional knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience.
* APDM course.
* Postgraduate diploma/Msc (specialization) in Technical Pharmacy or equivalent
* MSc (clinical)/(technical) Pharmacy.
* Management Certificate or Diploma
Experience
* Demonstrable experience of putting knowledge into practice via working within clean room GMP environments and working within GMP/GDP guidelines either in a hospital or industrial environment.
* Experience of product development.
* Evidence of staff management and training.
* Experience of design and qualification of clean room facilities.
* Experience of Self Inspection & External Audit /Inspection.
Knowledge
* Extensive knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice and the regulations surrounding Pharmaceutical Manufacture.
* Knowledge of clean room design, functioning and commissioning.
* An understanding of medicines management procedures.
* Specialist knowledge of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Processes including equipment and facility design, construction, validation and testing.
* Knowledge and experience of Aseptic preparation of medicines, Terminal Sterilization processes.
* Knowledge of the ISO 9000 Quality System.
Skills
* Leadership and motivational skills.
* Problem solving and analytical skills.
* Planning and organizational skills; ability to prioritize demands on service and plan workload of self and others.
* Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills; ability to communicate with a range of people such as technicians, pharmacists, engineers, clinicians and customers.
* Ability to work to deadlines and meet set targets.
* Ability to perform calculations to a high degree of accuracy.
* Persuasive and ability to negotiate.
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
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