Main area: Medicines Manufacturing
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Maybe required to work extended hours during the hours of 7am to 8pm.)
Job ref: 319-6630476HD-A
Site: Seaton Delaval
Town: Seaton Delaval
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 29/09/2024 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.
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Job overview
An exceptional opportunity has arisen to provide Production 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 act as deputy for the Head of Production and be responsible for the creation of production processes, training materials, SOPs and other quality documents.
Main duties of the job
* To provide leadership on production related aspects within the MMC.
* To meet clinical needs within the Integrated Care Services (ICS) for ready to use sterile injectable medicinal products.
* To support the establishment of the MMC, as a leading Manufacturing Centre within the national NHS framework for aseptic transformation.
Working for our organisation
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 establishing the production team for the delivery of anti-cancer and ready-to-administer sterile medicines for use in all 8 acute NHS Trusts in the NENC region.
Staff will be employed by Northumbria Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust until the formation of the Medicines Manufacturing Centre Legal Liability Partnership (LLP) is formed as a legal entity, after which TUPE regulations will apply.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Implement production policies which complies with Good Manufacturing Practice and current standards documents.
* To lead in the creation of user requirement specifications for manufacturing equipment.
* To select the contractors to provide the facility ensuring functional specification compliance with the user requirement specifications.
* To manage the new product introduction process including process validation.
* To assist in the development strategy to ensure a robust and fit for purpose manufacturing workforce.
* To manage contractors and to lead on the commissioning and qualification of facilities and manufacturing equipment.
* To manage the storage and distribution of manufactured medicines.
* To lead on the ongoing maintenance and re-qualification of the MMC facilities.
Interview Information:
Candidates will be presented with a scenario before the interview, and allowed time to review and make notes which will be presented and discussed with the panel during interview.
Person specification
Skills & Knowledge
* Master’s degree in a scientific discipline or equivalent experience
* Registered Professional with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) or Academy for Healthcare Science (AHCS)
* Post-graduate qualification in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing or equivalent experience
* Postgraduate diploma in Pharmaceutical Technology and Quality Assurance
Experience and Knowledge
* Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge, gained through training, including pharmaceutical manufacturing, preparation, procurement and contracting, auditing and unlicensed medicines.
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 Posi+ive 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.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
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