Main area Pharmacy Quality Assurance Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday, on calls, late nights and weekends) Job ref 407-WCCSS-7062042
Employer Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Walsall Manor Hospital Town Walsall Salary £53,755 - £60,504 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 11/04/2025 23:59
Lead Pharmacy Quality Assurance Professional
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust provides integrated acute and community Healthcare in the West Midlands serving a population of 260,000 residents. Walsall Manor Hospital houses the full range of district general hospital services. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and we are continually upgrading.
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Lead Quality Assurance Professional to join our Aseptic Services Team in Pharmacy. This role is critical to ensuring the delivery of high-quality pharmaceutical services, focusing on the areas of Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Control (QC), and Validation. The post is open to qualified Technicians and Pharmacists with relevant experience and offers a pathway to career progression from Band 7 to Band 8a based on demonstrated capabilities and leadership.
Main duties of the job
* Lead the development, implementation, and maintenance of Quality Management Systems (QMS) within the department, ensuring compliance with NHS and regulatory standards (e.g. GMP, GPhC).
* Conduct audits to monitor and maintain quality standards, identifying areas for improvement and ensuring action plans are developed and implemented.
* Oversee the QC processes within the department, ensuring that products, services, and procedures meet required specifications and standards.
* Provide expert advice on product testing and quality analysis, reviewing QC results and ensuring corrective actions are taken when necessary.
* Lead the validation of processes, equipment, and systems in accordance with national and local standards.
* Develop and execute validation protocols, ensuring that all aspects of validation are documented and performed to regulatory requirements.
* Provide leadership to the Aseptic Services Team, fostering a culture of quality and safety within the department.
* Provide line management and support to other members of staff within the team.
Person specification
Skills
* Able to demonstrate a very high level of specialist knowledge
* Demonstrates skills for problem identification and solving
* Self-motivating with a positive “can do”, enthusiastic approach to work and able to motivate a Pharmacy Team
Knowledge
* Able to demonstrate a very high level of specialist knowledge
* Demonstrates skills for problem identification and solving
Experience
* Significant experience in Quality Assurance/Quality Control in a pharmaceutical or healthcare setting.
* Experience in validation processes and an in-depth understanding of regulatory requirements (e.g., GMP and QAAPS).
* Leadership experience within a QA/QC environment
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify risks and implement corrective actions
* Able to transfer national guidelines into Trust policies, procedures, and guidelines
* Assertiveness skills – able to negotiate to a satisfactory outcome with professional colleagues at all levels
Please note your application will be transferred from the NHS Jobs system to internal Walsall Healthcare Trac System. All correspondence will be sent via Trac.
Following our recent CQC visit the Trust was rated as outstanding for care and this has been recognised by NHS Improvement.
We would particularly welcome applications from people from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background and from people with a disability; these groups are currently under-represented at senior level, we value diversity within our Trust and are working to achieve equality in our recruitment.
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