Pharmacist - Senior Quality Control Scientist

3 weeks ago


Liverpool, United Kingdom Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Senior Pharmaceutical Scientist / Senior Pharmacist


Pharmacy Aseptic Services


Aseptic Production Unit


Band 7 (37.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 brand-new Manufacturing site licensed in June 2023. 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.


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.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.


The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.


The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.


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Participate in validating the production processes to ensure compliance with the required standards in aseptic preparation of medicines.


Contribute to product lifecycle processes including Product Development and Product Quality Review.


Attend meetings (local & regional) when required to represent the APU.


Supervise less experienced pharmacists, 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.


M Pharm Degree or equivalent Or Honours degree in pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry or similar scientific subject if combined with further education and training such as the MSc Scientist Training Programme (STP) in Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences
Registered General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) Member or/& HCPC/ RPS

Technical qualification such as Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology, Quality Control, Engineering, Manufacturing
Post graduate certificate or diploma in a relevant pharmaceutical field

Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice and the regulations surrounding Pharmaceutical Manufacture.
Knowledge of clean room design and functioning
Specialist knowledge of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Processes including equipment and facility design, construction, validation and testing
Knowledge of:- o Aseptic preparation of medicines o Terminal Sterilisation processes o QA/QC services
Knowledge of product licensing and medical devices registration

Experience of Pharmaceutical Manufacture in either a hospital or industrial environment or previous experience of managing aseptic dispensing services


Planning and organisational skills ability to prioritise demands on service and plan workload of self and others
Project Management skills

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Liverpool University Hospital


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