Senior Pharmacy QA Officer

6 months ago


Chesterfield, United Kingdom Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for the role of a Senior QA Officer for pharmacy at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

Pharmacy Aseptic Services prepare and dispense aseptically prepared SACT and MAB treatments for patients at CRH.

The site prepares and releases aseptic doses of chemotherapy under the MS licence.

If you have a passion to provide an excellent, patient focused pharmacy service within a busy but friendly department, we encourage you to apply.

Support the QA Manager in building, developing and monitoring the quality systems applicable to the pharmacy service with a particular focus on those relating to Manufacturing and Wholesale Dealing.

To review and approve quality documentation and systems including change management, GMP / GDP deviations, recalls, complaints, product defects.

To ensure satisfactory maintenance and monitoring of the aseptic manufacturing unit and equipment.

As a releasing officer, be responsible for the approval or rejection of raw materials, intermediates, hospital manufactured, commercial products and packaging materials and to keep appropriate records, including maintaining electronic records.

Ensure adherence to the PQS through appropriate training and motivation of Pharmacy Production and QA staff.

Ensure continuing adherence to the requirements of PQS and cGMP through regular internal inspections and report compliance via the Pharmacy Governance.

The pharmacy department at Chesterfield Royal Hospital is modern, pro-active, forward-thinking and well respected both locally and nationally. We are very committed to the development of pharmacist prescribing and have one of the highest numbers of active pharmacist prescribers in the country. We have won individual and team awards for innovation and clinical excellence in the Trust’s staff recognition awards and have won awards at the Pharmacy Congress for our service developments. We have also been shortlisted for Health Service Journal awards.

Chesterfield Royal is North Derbyshire's only acute district general hospital, with 24-hour Emergency Department services. We're responsible for providing care and treatment to more than 400,000 people who live in our communities. We are modern, well-resourced and in commuting distance of Sheffield, Derby, Nottingham and close to the Peak District. The Care Quality Commission has rated the Trust as ‘Good’. Our vision is to be an outstanding provider of sustainable healthcare services, delivering the best possible care to our patients and being a great place to work for our people.

To support the QA Manager in building, developing and monitoring the quality systems applicable to the pharmacy service with a particular focus on those relating to Manufacturing, Wholesale Dealing and other registerable activity

To review and approve quality documentation and systems including change management, GMP / GDP deviations, recalls, complaints, product defects etc.

To undertake and support the preparation of SOPs.

To ensure satisfactory maintenance and monitoring of the aseptic manufacturing unit and equipment.

To participate in internal quality audits (Production Unit and Stores and distribution) and external audits as required.

To approve master worksheets, which relate to or might impinge upon licensable activities.

As a releasing officer, be responsible for the approval or rejection of raw materials, intermediates, hospital manufactured, commercial products and packaging materials and to keep appropriate records, including maintaining electronic records.

To evaluate Pharmacy manufacturing batch records, alongside Quality Control reports, prior to release or rejection of a batch

To be responsible for the review and reporting of all microbiological testing results provided by Quality Control including consultations and discussions of action plans with Production Management if results are outside of recommended guidelines.

To support and where indicated lead investigations into deviations in quality processes.

To contribute to external inspection requirements relating to GMP and GDP eg MHRA, CQC, GPhC.

Ensure appropriate escalation of all risks and outstanding corrective and preventative actions. Maintain relevant records, ensuring accurate data input into all computerised systems.

To support the operation of the QPulse document management system across the department.

Collect, interpret and present quality management data and statistics for use in monitoring the quality management system.



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