Senior Pharmacist / Senior Pharmaceutical Scientist
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Job overview
Senior Pharmacist / Senior Pharmaceutical Scientist
Pharmacy Aseptic Services
Aseptic Production Unit
Band 7 (37.5 hours per week) + EDC
We are a major acute teaching Trust offering a wide range of clinical specialities, including tertiary referrals for HIV and Renal Medicine.
We have a highly regarded Aseptic Production Unit (APU) at the Trust with a Licensed Manufacturing site. You will work closely with our Aseptic Service Leads to help steer the quality facilitating programmes at the production unit. This post generates an opportunity for a Pharmacist / Scientist to join an expanding team delivering the pharmaceutical needs of patients at the Trust and across the NHS. The post holder will be expected to focus on the need for Aseptic Production Services with responsibilities for efficient and safe service provision.
Support for appropriate further clinical & technical development, is available.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will contribute to overseeing the operational quality aspects of the production processes, in a cost effective and efficient manner, assuring the quality of all unlicensed medicines manufactured and prepared at the Aseptic Production Unit (APU).
The post holder will ensure timely release of prepared and manufactured unlicensed medicines and will certify all unlicensed medicines as having been prepared or manufactured in compliance with current Rules and Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will:
Participate in validating the production processes to ensure compliance with the required standards in aseptic preparation of medicines.
Contribute to product life cycle processes including Product Development and Product Quality Review.
Attend meetings (local & regional) when required to represent the APU.
Supervise less experienced pharmacists, scientists, technicians and students and provide training where necessary.
Will trouble shoot and undertake risk assessments in order to guide the team to ensure compliance with medicines legislation.