Band 7 Operations Chief Technician - Pharmacy Production Services
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 also involve implementation of new regulatory guidance as well as national agenda items that concern pharmacy aseptic services.
The role will involve managing 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 also 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.
The postholder will also 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.
Main duties of the job
- 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 To ensure that all relevant documentation is reviewed on a regular basis, updated as necessary and all out-of-date documentation is taken out of circulation.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.
Person Specification
Education & professional Qualifications
- Current registered pharmacy technician with GPhC or registered with relevant professional body.
- NVQ Pharmacy Services Level 3, BTEC or relevant Pharmaceutical Science Degree (BSc, MSc) or equivalent.
- Evidence of ongoing CPD
- Post graduate Diploma level qualification in Management studies or equivalent
- Willingness to undertake further training to advance skills and knowledge in preparation for development
Experience
- Relevant and proven pharmaceutical manufacturing experience or relevant experience in a production unit.
- Experience of managing staff in a hospital environment.
- Proven competence of supervising staff and workload on a day to day basis
- Demonstrate evidence of project management, human resource management and service experience.
- Knowledge of the pharmacy stock.
- Work within a licensed Hospital manufacturing unit
Skills and aptitudes
- Demonstrate a good working knowledge of windows based systems and be capable of using all Microsoft offic
- Ability to prioritise and organise routine daily tasks using own initiative, whilst supervising and leading a team.
- Ability to train and assess others
- Demonstrate ability to communicate effectively, have a logical approach to problem solving and to form and maintain good working relationships.
- Willingness to participate in and promote effective team working (key to working on a rotational basis).
- Demonstrated ability to work under pressure accurately.
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems
- Be focused on patient care and the efficient and effective service delivery
- Demonstrated ability to clearly and accurately complete complex documents.
- Demonstrated ability to work to set procedures
- Demonstrated knowledge of aspects of a GMP and QA system, including principles of validation
- Ability to manufacture a wide range of sterile, aseptic and non -sterile products
- Knowledge of how to use wide range of equipment for pharmaceutical production.
- Demonstrated ability to maintain quality standards.
- Good general understanding of GCP.
- Ability to critically appraise national initiatives in the profession and their influences on service delivery
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.
£55,524 to £62,652 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS
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