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Pharmacy Production Unit
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref
162-7593-CCS
Employer
Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Queen's Hospital
Town
Romford
Salary
£21,457 - £26,079 per annum inclusive
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
19/02/2026 23:59

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Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust logo

Band 5 Production Checking Officer

Band 5

 

PEOPLE are at the HEART of everything we do

This video gives a flavour of what it is like to work at our Trust and why some of our staff love working here 💙

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lePIUCfMPLk

Job overview


Pharmacy Production Queen's Hospital, Pharmacy Production Checking Officer, Band 5, 22.5 hours per week (Monday,Tuesday, Wednesday plus Saturday rota).
 
We require an experienced member of Pharmacy Production staff to join our team working in our licenced, commercial aseptics unit at Queen's Hospital. 

You will be responsible for the final checking of Parenteral Nutrition and other injectable products such as antibiotics, patient controlled analgesia and cytotoxics, preparation of batch documentation, customer liaison and supervision of setting up/disinfection area on rotation. You must be methodical, accurate and able to work within a team. Candidates will have either NVQ level 3 in Pharmacy, SMT level 3 apprenticeship or science degree/equivalent experience.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will carry out specialist aseptic dispensing and final checking in a professional manner, helping provide a high quality, customer orientated service to the standards required

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. 

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission. 

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care. 

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.  

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in this film.  

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role.  Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application, please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Pubudu Chandrasekera, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5110. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.

Person specification

Education / Qualification

Essential criteria
  • NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy, SMT apprenticeship in aseptics, undergraduate degree or Aseptic Processing Course and experience of aseptic preparation and in process checking

Skills / Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Demonstrate attention to detail and accuracy

Knowledge / Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of hospital pharmacy production including aseptic dispensing.
Desirable criteria
  • Final checking of aseptic products

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Neil Fisher
Job title
Senior Principal Pharmacist Technical Services
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01708435042
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