Senior Pharmacist / Senior Pharmaceutical Scientist

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; AUD 84,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Pharmacist / Senior Pharmaceutical Scientist to join the Aseptic Production Unit (APU). The role focuses on overseeing aseptic production processes, ensuring quality, safety, and regulatory compliance for unlicensed medicines produced and released for patient care.

You will work with Aseptic Service Leads, supervise pharmacists, scientists, and technicians, participate in local and regional meetings, and help drive

Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacist with post-qualification experience in aseptic services.
• Experience with GMP/quality systems and regulatory compliance.
• Ability to supervise staff and provide practical training.

Responsibilities

• Oversee validation of aseptic production processes to ensure compliance with required standards.
• Contribute to product lifecycle processes including development and quality review.
• Attend local and regional meetings to represent the APU and Liverpool NHS Foundation Trust.
• Supervise pharmacists, scientists, technicians and students and provide training where necessary.
• Perform risk assessments and guide the team to ensure medicines legislation compliance.
• Deputise for the Lead Pharmacists (Technical Services) as required.

Skills

Aseptic services

Quality assurance

Team supervision

Training delivery

Education

Pharmacist qualification

Tools

Quality management systems

Job description

Senior Pharmacist / Senior Pharmaceutical Scientist

Company:

Company: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

A Vacancy at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Senior Pharmacist / Senior Pharmaceutical Scientist

Pharmacy Aseptic Services

Aseptic Production Unit

Band 7 (37.5 hours per week) + EDC

We are a major acute teaching Trust offering a wide range of clinical specialities, including tertiary referrals for HIV and Renal Medicine.

We have a highly regarded Aseptic Production Unit (APU) at the Trust with a Manufacturing site licensed in June 2023. You will work closely with our Aseptic Service Leads to help steer the quality facilitating programmes at the production unit. This post generates an opportunity for a Pharmacist / Scientist to join an expanding team delivering the pharmaceutical needs of patients at the Trust and across the NHS. The post holder will be expected to focus on the need for Aseptic Production Services with responsibilities for efficient and safe service provision.

Support for appropriate further clinical & technical development, is available.

The post holder will contribute to overseeing the operational quality aspects of the production processes, in a cost effective and efficient manner, assuring the quality of all unlicensed medicines manufactured and prepared at the Aseptic Production Unit (APU).

The post holder will ensure timely release of prepared and manufactured unlicensed medicines and will certify all unlicensed medicines as having been prepared or manufactured in compliance with current Rules and Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers.

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 Hospitalis 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 Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women’s Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit theircareers page.

The post holder will:

Participate in validating the production processes to ensure compliance with the required standards in aseptic preparation of medicines.

Contribute to product life cycle processes including Product Development and Product Quality Review.

Attend meetings (local & regional) when required to represent the APU.

Supervise less experienced pharmacists, scientists, technicians and students and provide training where necessary.

Will trouble shoot and undertake risk assessments in order to guide the team to ensure compliance with medicines legislation.

Deputise for the Lead Pharmacists (Technical Services) as required

This advert closes on Thursday 29 Oct 2026

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust