Undergraduate Student Placement

**Undergraduate Student Placement**

**About us**

Bath ASU (part of the Pharmaxo Group) produces aseptically compounded injectable pharmaceutical products for hospitals and patients across the UK who are fighting cancer, living with chronic disease or in need of pain relief. Through our scientific and technologycapabilities, the team continuously develops new and innovative methods to improve our products and services.

**Your role**

This placement will give you exposure to various departments within the organisation including Production, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Research & Development and Sales.

**Duties and responsibilities to include**:

- Produce batch documentation for cytotoxic batch manufacture and patient specific products, Pain Control and IV additive products
- Conduct Production Batch release activities ensuring that products and documentation meet both the Product Specification and GMP requirements
- Final review of pre-manufacture batch documentation, following GMP guidelines.
- Undertake or assist with routine environmental monitoring including temperature, pressure, particulate and microbiological contamination. To report (on relevant form) any results which are outside the stated limits and participate in the immediate correctiveactions, causes and preventative measures.
- To assist with quality improvement activities within the Quality Management System
- Contribute to the efficient organisation of the day to day operation of the unit.
- To complete a supervised work based project relating to a chemical/biological aspect
- To ensure that the relevant principles of “Good Manufacturing Practice” (GMP) are applied at all times
- To ensure compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act and all other relevant legislation e.g. Medicines Act, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
- To follow Standard Operating Procedures and to contribute to the development and maintenance of these and other work instructions
- To be able to adapt and work appropriately in non-routine situations.
- Commitment to participate in any overtime, extended hours rotas or Bank Holidays rotas.
- Completion of the NCFE Level 2 Intermediate Award in Aseptic Services as part of your induction.
- To undertake any other duties as required by Department Supervisors/Training and Development Manager