Job summary
- Main area
- Quality Assurance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 166-ICD-6358582
- Employer
- Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chesterfield Royal Hospital
- Town
- Chesterfield
- Salary
- £28,407 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Senior Pharmacy QA Officer
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
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.
We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with an attention to detail, excellent organisational skills and the ability to work to tight timescales. Also needs to be a great team player and have exceptionally strong interpersonal and communication skills.
The successful candidate will work closely with the QA Manager to develop QA Services, providing and maintaining a safe efficient pharmaceutical service to wards and departments across the Trust.
If you have a passion to provide an excellent, patient focused pharmacy service within a busy but friendly department, we encourage you to apply.
Main duties of the job
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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- 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.
- To support the development and application of the QMS to other areas of the pharmacy including the dispensary, and clinical pharmacy services working in association with Senior Pharmacy technicians and pharmacists.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a Pharmacy, Chemistry or Biology related discipline
Desirable criteria
- Additional Btec/NVQ qualification
- Additional management / supervisory qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing change
- Experience of audit
- Comprehensive experience of working in a GMP environment
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge / insight into pharmacy Quality systems
- Experience of supervision / mentorship
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to work within a team
- Confident communicator
- Ability to analyse, interpret and present highly complex information
- Ability to analyse and report on trends, and give specialist advice on findings
- IT literate
- Leadership skills
- Able to manage conflict
- Able to think strategically
- Motivational Skills
- Teaching & presentation skills
Desirable criteria
- Project management skills
- Coaching / mentorship training
- Familiar with pharmacy & medicines related legislation, codes of practice etc
- Knowledge of Pharmaceutical regulatory frameworks
personal
Essential criteria
- Professional appearance
- Able to work independently
- Able to work under pressure
- Self-motivated
- Ambitious
- Flexible
values
Essential criteria
- demonstrates proud to CARE values
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amber Chaudhray
- Job title
- QA manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01246516699
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS FT
Calow
S44 5BL
Chesterfield
S44 5BL
- Telephone
- 01246512150
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