Job summary
- Main area
- Immunology
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 271-CCS-7185628
- Employer
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Great Ormond Street Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £70,387 - £80,465 Inclusive per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Processing and Governance Manager - Cellular Therapies
Band 8b
Job overview
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is looking for a Processing and Governance Manager for Cellular Therapies. As the Processing and Governance Manager, you will manage the Cell Therapy Unit alongside the Director of Cell Therapy. This includes overseeing a new GMP facility with MHRA and HTA licensed laboratories, ensuring compliance
with GMP, HTA, JACIE, and UKAS.
Essential qualifications required include a Honours Degree and MSc or equivalent in a relevant scientific discipline. Active Professional Registration with Health Care Profession Council or the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. You will also have experience in GMP, quality, laboratory management, translational cell and gene therapy, HTA requirements, and Health and Safety.
Main duties of the job
Ensuring products are produced and stored according to quality standards
Maintain department, premises, and equipment qualifications
Ensure appropriate validations and staff training
Lead management reviews of process performance and quality management systems
Manage Cell Therapy scientific and support staff
Support translational research and clinical trials
Working for our organisation
We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as the communities we serve, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including people with Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic heritage, people with a disability, and people from LGBTQ+ communities. By growing an ever more diverse workforce, we’ll have a greater range of perspectives and knowledge, meaning that we can provide the children and young people at our hospital with even better care.
Our hospital is committed to creating an environment that is open and inclusive. Our staff are encouraged to engage with colleagues through the following networks: REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage) ENABLED (Enhancing Abilities & Leveraging Disabilities Network), PRIDE and Women’s networks; all of which are sponsored by a member of our Executive Management Team.
We want to ensure that all of our people, regardless of their background, are seen and heard. We want to attract applicants that share our commitment to inclusion and that understand diversity is a strength that is embraced and valued.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below
Person specification
Combined Values
Essential criteria
- Combined Values
Academic/Professional qualification/Training
Essential criteria
- Honours degree or equivalent in a relevant scientific discipline
- MSc or equivalent in appropriate specialty
- Registration with Health Care Profession Council or Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Desirable criteria
- PhD in scientific discipline
Experience/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Appropriate specialist knowledge of cell-based therapies
- Knowledge of HTA and MHRA regulatory guidelines in relation to cell therapies
- Knowledge of research governance, ISO standards and accreditation
- Experience of translational research, GLP/GMP and/or GCP in gene and/or cell therapy
- Experience of budgets and financial planning
- Line management or supervisory experience
- Experience of Quality Management Systems
- Experience of external regulatory inspections i.e. MHRA, HTA, UKAS and JACIE inspection
- Familiar with and competent in laboratory IT systems and other relevant software packages, including databases and document control.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Laboratory modernisation and managing change in NHS environment
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people 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
- Christine Morris
- Job title
- Lead Laboratory Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02074059200
- Additional information
Ex 8664
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