Total 1 Manufacturing / Production job vacancies in Barnet, London, NE4 4BT

We are looking for a suitably experienced pharmaceutical senior production technician to join our chemotherapy aseptic preparation and dispensing team based in Guy's Cancer Centre. The candidate should be an enthusiastic team player who is able to demonstrate excellent organisational & training skills, effective communication, and has an excellent working knowledge of GMP and manufacturing experience of pharmaceuticals.

Strong foundations in GMP practices, preparing PQS documents such as deviations, change controls and CAPA documents is required.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

Supporting the Principal Pharmacy Technicians (Aseptic Services) in the running of the chemotherapy unit and supervising the production operators in the clean room environment.
• • To ensure the safe, efficient and compliant manufacture of a range of pharmaceuticals under section 10 exemption of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012
• Ensure excellent GMP practices are maintained at all times
• • To train junior staff members in aseptic production practices
• To supervise a cohort of pharmacy assistants and production technicians in both preparation and dispensing activities.
• To participate in the aseptic technical verification of screened prescriptions in EPIC
• To manage the workload in both cleanrooms and support areas
• To ensure that effective usage of the raw materials is undertaken and minimise wastage
• To ensure that daily physical monitoring is maintained and QMH courier is organised in a timely manner for daily delivery
• To act as team lead on weekend working

The Chemotherapy Preparation and Dispensing Unit is located at the Guy's Hospital Site and produces a variety of Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapies (SACT) for use within the hospital trust for patients.

A satellite Cancer Centre unit is based at Queen Mary's Hospital (QMH) - Sidcup that offers our cancer patients the opportunity for treatment closer to home.

CPDU works in close collaboration with the Quality Assurance team and other pharmacy aseptic services units in the Trust across sites; licensed and unlicensed units.

As an overview general duties include the following, for full details refer to the JD provided.
1. To supervise all technical aspects of aseptic preparation and to ensure products are made to the highest quality, enforced by GMP and QA systems and that they are fit for their intended use.
2. To act as a role model to staff working throughout the department.
3. To undertake any other reasonable duties as specified by the Principal technician and senior team.
4. To assist in recruitment and selection of staff to the Trust’s Pharmacy Manufacturing unit and assist in recruitment to the pharmacy as a whole.
5. To be the responsible supervisor critical checker within production areas and to undertake when required preparation and dispensing of raw materials and other products.


This advert closes on Tuesday 10 Dec 2024