Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 344-0263DCB
- Employer
- East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kent and Canterbury Hospital
- Town
- Canterbury
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Quality Assurance Pharmacy Technician
Band 5
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly motivated pharmacy technician or scientist to join our friendly and dynamic team to provide high quality of Quality Assurance within the pharmacy department .
You will be part also be part of the wider pharmacy team of highly professional and dedicated staff whose aim is to provide an excellent, patient focus service.
Main duties of the job
· The post holder will be specifically responsible for the management of the pharmacy quality system for the Pharmacy Department.
· The post-holder will support the Quality Assurance Lead in promoting and facilitating the development of an effective Quality system, risk management, assurance and compliance management across the Pharmacy department
The day to day organisation and supervision of pharmacy Quality Assurance services under the direction of the Quality Assurance Lead
Support the QC officer and the QA technician in planning, prioritising of workload and task allocation and QA/QC training
Working for our organisation
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.
Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in ‘Documents to download’.
If you have further queries please don’t hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualifications
Desirable criteria
- GPHC registration
Requirements
Essential criteria
- Experience of investigating incidents including creating timelines and supporting fact finding / root cause analysis meetings.
- Experience with leading patient safety investigations
- Experience of working to tight deadlines, setting priorities and dealing with a varied workload
- Experience of writing investigation reports
- Ability to work on own initiative and make independent decisions
- Experience of reviewing and improving systems within an NHS organisation
- Organisational, prioritisation, time management, personal effectiveness, analytical and problem-solving skills of a consistently high standard
- maintaining attention to detail and accuracy
- Excellent communication (written, oral, presentations) and interpersonal skills essential to exchange highly complex information to colleagues, patients and relatives, clinicians and senior managers (both within and outside the Trust)
- Self-motivated and ability to motivate others / act as a role model.
- Ability to develop and implement new procedures.
- Ability to think Methodically and operationally
- A demonstrably high degree of emotional intelligence. Team player with drive and enthusiasm
- Computing skills to include a working knowledge of Aseptics and Pharmacy / Trust IT systems (e.g. QPulse/JAC / Ascribe, Datix, PAS etc.).
- Demonstrable proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office, Power Point, Word, Access and Excel and patient information systems, intranets and the internet.
- Ability to deal with significantly distressing situations and complaints from patients, managers and other Pharmacy Aseptic dispensing service stakeholders. Excellent customer care skills.
- Good Manufacturing Practice [GMP], Orange Guide, Farwell Report,
- Control Of Substances Hazardous to Health legislation.
- National Aseptic Services guidelines.
- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency [MHRA] and licensing guidelines and standards
- The audit process, internal and external
- Btec in Pharmaceutical science and NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services, Science degree or Science manufacturing technician (SMT) qualification
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical ( GPhC ) or Science Council
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development through a combination of long and short courses and study days to obtain knowledge of Pharmacy Technical Services plus knowledge of how to deal with a range of non-routine activities including answering queries and progress chasing
Desirable criteria
- Quality assurance experience within Pharmaceutical industry.
- Previous hospital pharmacy experience
- Ability to encourage others
- Ability to prioritise and organise competing workloads yet retain sufficient flexibility to respond to new circumstances
- Ability to organise and evaluate data, assessing its importance by creating and maintaining databases and spread sheets
- Ability to construct clear, grammatically correct letters and reports, presenting work accurately and neatly
- Takes initiative and uses own judgement in anticipating and dealing with queries and problems
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Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Albert Karugaba
- Job title
- Quality Assurance and Quality Control Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07970548462
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