Band 7 Operations Chief Technician - Pharmacy Production Services

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Chipping Barnet; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in England is seeking an experienced aseptic services pharmacy technician to manage the preparation and delivery of Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy at Barnet Hospital. The role involves ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and overseeing quality assurance processes. Candidates should have significant experience in aseptic pharmacy services and robust management skills to lead the pharmacy team effectively.

Qualifications

• Experience in aseptic pharmacy services is required.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and quality assurance standards is essential.
• Must have strong management and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day delivery of the production service at Barnet Hospital.
• Oversee controlled documentation and ensure compliance with regulations.
• Lead environmental monitoring and ensure clean rooms operate within specification.

Skills

Aseptic preparation

Pharmaceutical Quality System management

Compliance with GMP and GCP

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced aseptic services pharmacy technician to lead and manage the preparation and delivery of safe and high quality Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy from Barnet Hospital Production Unit. The role will involve implementation of new regulatory guidance as well as national agenda items that concern pharmacy aseptic services. The postholder will manage the Pharmaceutical Quality System to ensure that controlled documentation is updated to ensure safe and consistent practice, as well as managing Deviations effectively and any associated Change Controls which may arise from them. They will have significant involvement with self-inspection of the department to ensure continuing compliance with QAAPS standards and ensure that the contamination control strategy for the facility is implemented and risks identified and safely mitigated. They will work closely with the Education and Training coordinator to ensure that team accreditations and validations are undertaken in a timely manner to ensure safe preparation and delivery of treatment, as well as manage validation activities to provide assurance of safe and consistent processes, equipment and operator technique. They will also be involved with periodic review of Key Performance Indicators as well as oversee the environmental monitoring programme.

Responsibilities

• To manage and be responsible for all aspects of the day-to-day delivery of the production service at Barnet Hospital, ensuring that the service complies with all current regulatory requirements of Section 10 pharmacy aseptic preparation, and operating within the bounds of COSHH, Health and Safety, GMP, GCP and QA regulations.
• To develop and maintain all controlled documentation such as worksheets and standard operating procedures, in liaison with the Operational Lead Pharmacist and RFH Quality Assurance. To ensure that all relevant documentation is reviewed on a regular basis, updated as necessary and all out-of-date documentation is taken out of circulation.
• To ensure all quality exceptions and deviations from SOPs are reported to Quality Assurance via the EQMS quality management system, are appropriately documented and that resolution of problems are undertaken in a timely fashion.
• To ensure that all environmental monitoring is carried out at the required time and frequency, by appropriately trained staff.
• To ensure that the clean rooms are operating within specification prior to manufacture.
• The post-holder may need to work cross-site between Barnet and Hampstead sites and in future any other NHS hospitals that joins the Group Model. If in future the services are rationalised to one site then the post holder will be expected to work from that base.

About the Trust

Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet, Chase Farm and Royal Free Hospitals and more than 30 services in the community. Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers' money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation. The Pharmacy department is a friendly, progressive, and expanding unit dedicated to providing the highest standards of pharmaceutical care and service in this internationally renowned teaching hospital.