Quality Assurance/Quality Control Officer (Microbiology)

We are looking for a confident and enthusiastic QA/QC Officer (Microbiology) to join our Pharmacy Quality Assurance Department. You will be based at Colchester Hospital, however you will be required to work across at Ipswich Hospital.

You will be expected to support the Pharmacy Quality Assurance team in ensuring that the regulatory requirements and standards set by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) are met for the Manufacturing Specials, Clinical Trials and Wholesale dealing licenses held by the Trust.

You will be a team player, joining an established department with a multi-disciplinary team. Our team have various professional scientific backgrounds, including different specialties; therefore, we have a wealth of experience to support your learning and development.

For this role, you will need previous experience of Microbiology pharmaceutical GMP in NHS manufacturing unit or pharmaceutical industry as required by MHRA guidance for specials manufactures for batch release.

• Providing support to the Senior QA/QC Specialist, providing GMP support for all preparative and manufacturing activities and giving oversight to the QA/QC Assistant technical officers.
• Undertaking operational activities and technical projects within the microbiology quality control laboratory, inclusive of routine and non-routine testing.
• Support the Environmental Monitoring & Sterility Assurance programs across technical services.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals, we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Naomi James Job title: Senior QA/QC Specialist Email address: Naomi.James@esneft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01206 745959