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- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
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Senior Production Technician
Closed for applications on: 3-Jul-2024 12:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 3-Jul-2024 12:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- St Thomas Hospital
- Address
- Westminster bridge Road
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £34,089 - £41,498 p.a. inc. HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- Pharmacy
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We are pleased to announce a vacancy in search of a production technician at our St Thomas' site covering PN and CIVAS.
We are seeking an enthusiastic candidate with a keen interest in aseptics and quality to support our PN service and CIVAS unit. You will work closely with nursing, pharmacy and other operational management teams to provide a patient focused service. You will also work closely with our clinical trials team, providing innovative treatments.
We are looking for a candidate who ideally has experience in aseptic services and pharmaceutical quality assurance, with a desire to progress in these areas. The ideal candidate will have an eye for detail, working knowledge of aseptic technique and understanding of GMP.
Joining our aseptic services team at Guy's & St Thomas' is an exciting proposition, with significant aseptic estates development planned over the next five years and growing demand for clinical trials, cancer treatments, CIVAS and advanced therapies. The Parenteral Nutrition Unit has recently undergone a refurbishment project, and we're embarking on a project to refurbish our CIVAS unit and awaiting delivery of brand new isolators.
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The successful candidate will be responsible for:
Supporting the Principal Aseptic Technician in the running of the manufacturing unit and supervising the production operators in the clean room environment.
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- To ensure the safe, efficient and compliant manufacture of a range of pharmaceuticals under Section 10 / Regulation 4 exemption of the Medicines Act 1968 / Human Medicines Regulations 2012
- Ensure excellent GMP practices are maintained at all times
- To train junior staff members in aseptic production practices
- Provide supervision and oversight to preparation activities in the cleanroom
- Oversee compliance to critical in process checks
- Ensure workflow is effectively managed
- provide leadership and facilitate junior staff in completing daily operations
Working for our organisation
Guy's & St Thomas' Technical Services has one of the country's largest manufacturing facilities, split across a number of sites and involves around 140 staff working in licensed manufacturing and named patient dispensing areas. Services include aseptic preparation of CIVAS and chemotherapy, sterile and non-sterile manufacturing, clinical trials, quality control and quality assurance.
There is a wide range of expertise throughout the department and many opportunities to learn and develop from technical experts. We have cultivated a culture that actively promotes patient safety as a top priority. This ethos is ingrained in our team's values and everyday practices, fostering an environment where every member is committed to upholding the highest standards of care.
The extensive multidisciplinary team (MDT), including consultants, registrars, clinical nurse specialists, specialist clinical and technical pharmacists, clinical research teams and administrative staff work together in a dynamic environment to deliver seamless care to our extensive patient cohort.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see job description/person specification for full details on the role and main responsibilities.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated ability to dispense accurately to set standards
- Demonstrated ability to undertake preparation and manufacture of a wide range of products. This should include in an isolator and LAFC.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrated ability to undertake preparation and manufacture of a wide range of non-sterile and sterile products.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of manufacturing a variety of pharmaceutical dosage forms.
- Portfolio demonstrating competence of previous and current pharmacy practice skills and knowledge and CPD.
- Previous evaluated experience of delivering induction and competency based training e.g. Trainer the Trainers or equivalent / NVQ Pharmacy Services Level 3 – optional unit: 12 or equivalent.
- Previous evaluated experience of supervising staff and workload on a day-to-day basis
- Previous evaluated experience of participation in project work.
- Demonstrated ability to work as part and lead a team.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrated experience of ability to appraise staff and set performance objectives.
- Previous evaluated experience of recruitment and selection of staff
Qualification and knowledge
Essential criteria
- GSCE English, Maths and Science Grade A to C or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- NVQ Pharmacy Services Level 3 – optional units: relevant to pharmacy practice area or equivalent.
- Registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council GPhC
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Allison Harmon
- Job title
- Principal Aseptic Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071884991
- Additional information
For further information or to arrange a site visit please contact Allison Harmon on 02071884991
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