Production Technician Technical Services

Job overview

Join our friendly, highly skilled team!

Are you a passionate and experienced Technical Services Technician looking for a rewarding opportunity? Join our dedicated team, where you’ll play an essential role in providing high-quality aseptic and prepacking services to meet the needs of both our trust and external customers.

We are looking for someone that is either a registered pharmacy Technician or a qualified Science manufacturing technician / working towards qualification.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare and dispense aseptic products, including chemotherapy and intravenous additives, in our MHRA specials licence approved units.
• Supply pre-packs to meet the needs of the trust and external stakeholders.
• Assist in the training and development of team members, supporting the Lead Technician with the training and revalidation processes.

Expectations:

• Participate in departmental evening, weekend, and bank holiday rotas when required.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the aseptic and prepacking services.

What We Offer:

• A welcoming and collaborative team environment.
• Opportunities for professional development and training.
• A role where your contributions directly impact patient care and service quality.

If you are dedicated to providing high-quality service and want to be part of an exciting team, we’d love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the role are:

• Supporting senior staff with prioritising the supplyof medicines.Be responsible for the management of the day-to-day operation of the pre-packing unit.
• Participating in the compounding of all aseptic preparations, using isolator technology.
• Preparing and calculating worksheets.
• Undertaking transcription, calculation and reconciliation checks on manufacturing documents.
• Maintaining competencies in compounding, assembly, labelling, and accuracy checking.
• Inspecting, labelling and final compound checking of batch stock items for release under the licence.
• Carrying out all necessary pre-work equipment and production checks, investigating and rectifying, notifying the unit manager of any faults or deviations.
• Completing environmental testing duties.
• Participating on the rota to work weekends, early and late starts/finishes and around bank holidays and service visits.
• Cross site working as necessary.
• Be responsible for minimising drug wastage.
• Co-ordinating and overseeing the work of less experienced staff within the unit.
• Acting as a cleanroom supervisor.
• Planning and organising straightforward activities on a day-to-day basis.
• Supporting the Lead Technician and Specialist Technician with the training of staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Are you looking for an exciting Production Technician role using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you.

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

We look forward to your application.

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a suitable number of applications.