Senior Technician, Pharmacy Aseptic Quality Assurance

NHS; Coventry; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS trust as a Senior Technician in Pharmacy Aseptic Quality Assurance, contributing to vital cancer treatment services and ensuring high standards of care. This fixed-term position involves working with aseptic processes and supporting our cutting-edge chemotherapy prescribing systems in a modern healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacy Technician with substantial hospital aseptic experience.
• Strong GMP knowledge.
• Experience with pharmacy digital applications.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Aseptic Quality Assurance Team.
• Support the electronic chemotherapy prescribing system.
• Ensure compliance with GMP and quality assurance requirements.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Computer literacy

Job description

Go back University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

Senior Technician, Pharmacy Aseptic Quality Assurance

The closing date is 07 July 2025

UHCW Pharmacy is undergoing significant transformation to prepare us to be a world class leader in healthcare. We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, self-motivated Senior Technician - Pharmacy Aseptic Quality Assurance (fixed term) to join us in achieving this goal.

The aseptic service at our hospital in Coventry is fortunate to possess a Quality Control laboratory with whom we work closely. Although cancer chemotherapy and clinical trial medication are our main aseptically dispensed products we plan to introduce the dispensing of parenteral nutrition in the near future. This is an exciting time for the aseptic service as there are many changes and opportunities on the horizon. The Trust is also part of a collaborative of hospitals seeking to rationalise and improve services across the local area. This is expected to bring additional benefits through closer working.

Secondment will be considered for internal candidates - If you are successful after interview, you must obtain approval from your current line manager to accept the offer.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

Interviews will be on Thursday 17th July 2025 (tbc).

Main duties of the job

As a key member of the pharmacy cancer team, you will be encouraged to be innovative and forward looking and will work closely with the Aseptic Quality Assurance Team to maintain and improve our high standards. The successful candidate needs to be highly computer literate as an element of this role will involve supporting our electronic chemotherapy prescribing system. Our spacious aseptic facility benefits from seven pharmaceutical isolators and a friendly and hard-working team of technicians and ATO staff.

You will be a registered Pharmacy Technician with substantial hospital aseptic experience including strong GMP knowledge. You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and previous experience working within change management and with pharmacy digital applications.

This role is integral to the maintenance and optimisation of our aseptic quality management and electronic chemotherapy prescribing system.

To support the pharmacy department in maintaining compliance with aseptic, good manufacturing practice (GMP) and quality assurance requirements. Support the maintenance of the Pharmaceutical Quality System (PQS) in Aseptics and ensure that KPI improvement plans are effective.

Provide technical and operational support for the chemotherapy prescribing system, contributing to safe and effective patient care. The role will also involve assisting in the configuration and improvement of the chemotherapy prescribing system, under the guidance of senior pharmacists.

About us

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence designated organisation - please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.

Job responsibilities

We are a large and friendly team at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW) operating from University Hospital, Coventry and Hospital of St Cross in Rugby. Our large Acute Teaching Hospital has almost 1400 beds and is located in a PFI hospital which opened in 2006, situated just off the junction of the M6 and M69. We are a major trauma centre and tertiary and specialist referral centre for many specialities including Neurosciences and Stroke, Oncology, Haematology, Paediatrics, Cardiothoracic, Renal Medicine and Renal Transplant. We are also a large clinical trials centre with over 140 active trials currently recruited to.

Our large Pharmacy department has an innovative approach to pharmaceutical care with floor-based medicines optimisation and management teams that utilise modern software applications to drive efficiency and clinical excellence. The Trust has recently introduced an all-encompassing EPR/EPMA system. We have strong links with the Medical School at Warwick University, the Department of Medicines Management at Keele University and the School of Pharmacy at Aston University.

• Work with the pharmacy AQA team to manage deviations, change controls and SOPs reviewing and updating relevant documents in advance of expiry dates.
• Support the optimal use of PTS (pharmacy tracker system) in aseptics for monitoring medicines workflow, and also intervention monitoring.
• Provide technical support for the chemotherapy prescribing system (MOSAIQ) under the supervision of senior pharmacists.
• Support the pharmacy AQA team with Datix investigations and provide assurance of relevant preventative or corrective actions.
• Support the provision of aseptically prepared patient specific cytotoxic products and CIVAS in line with aseptic Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) ensuring standards of quality, accuracy and timeliness are met.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

For an informal discussion about the department, Trust or this role, please contact:

Cerys Simmons, Accountable Pharmacist, email [e-mail], or Stephen Almond Associate Director of Pharmacy, Cancer, Technical Services and Clinical Trials on 02476 964292, email [e-mail]

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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.

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