Highly Advanced Pharmaceutical Scientist

NHS Jobs; Leeds; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Highly Advanced Pharmaceutical Scientist to lead our aseptic services and ensure GMP-compliant delivery of around 80,000 aseptic preparations yearly. You will develop quality systems, drive innovation, and manage a skilled team across clinical and operational settings.

The role blends scientific expertise with strategic leadership, quality assurance and continuous improvement to enhance patient care within LTHT, a major teaching hospital with a

Qualifications

• Significant experience working within a GMP and quality assurance environment.
• Expert knowledge of pharmaceutical technology and aseptic services.
• A passion for quality, patient safety and continuous improvement.
• Strong leadership skills with experience developing and supporting teams.
• The ability to influence, collaborate and build relationships with a wide range of colleagues.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the confidence to make decisions in complex situations.
• Experience managing change, service development or introducing new ways of working.
• Outstanding communication skills with the ability to explain complex information clearly.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership across aseptic services and drive service development.
• Contribute to pharmaceutical quality systems and GMP compliance.
• Lead and develop a skilled workforce and influence strategic decisions.
• Collaborate with senior clinical and operational colleagues to shape LTHT aseptic services.

Skills

GMP experience

Quality assurance

Leadership

Communication skills

Change management

Problem solving

Aseptic services

Pharmaceutical technology

Job description

Highly Advanced Pharmaceutical Scientist

Are you ready to take the next step in your career and help shape the future of specialist pharmacy services? Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an experienced and motivated Highly Advanced Pharmaceutical Scientist to provide leadership across our aseptic services, supporting the delivery of around 80,000 aseptic preparations each year, including complex biotherapy and clinical trial products. Working within Aseptic Services, you will play a key role in maintaining and developing our pharmaceutical quality systems, ensuring compliance with GMP standards, driving service innovation, and delivering safe, high-quality patient care.This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled professional with expertise in pharmaceutical quality assurance who is passionate about leadership, continuous improvement and service development. You will work closely with senior clinical and operational colleagues, lead and develop a highly skilled workforce, influence strategic decisions, and help shape the future of aseptic services across one of the UK's largest teaching hospital trusts. If you're looking for a role where you can combine quality assurance expertise, operational leadership and innovation to make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you

Main duties of the job

We're looking for someone who combines technical expertise with a passion for quality, leadership and service improvement.

You should be comfortable working in a busy environment and be able to build strong relationships across teams, all while helping us shape the future of aseptic services at LTHT.

• Significant experience working within a GMP and quality assurance environment.
• Expert knowledge of pharmaceutical technology and aseptic services.
• A passion for quality, patient safety and continuous improvement.
• Strong leadership skills with experience developing and supporting teams.
• The ability to influence, collaborate and build relationships with a wide range of clinical and operational colleagues.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the confidence to make decisions in complex situations.
• Experience managing change, service development or introducing new ways of working.
• Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to explain complex information clearly.
• A proactive and adaptable approach, with the drive to lead innovation and improvement.
• A commitment to developing yourself and others through learning, coaching and professional development.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants to combine scientific expertise with leadership, operational responsibility and service development in a role that makes a real difference to patient care.

Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

About us

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time.

Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care.

We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page.

Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description.

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.