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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy Aseptic Services
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
196-LIS9560
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Thomas Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£54,320 - £60,981 per annum inc. H.C.A
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
11/06/2025 23:59
Interview date
23/06/2025

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Aseptic Programme Chief Pharmacy Technician

NHS AfC: Band 7

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

An exceptional opportunity has arisen to provide technical expertise and leadership for the design, build, validation and start up of a purpose built Paediatric Cancer and ATMP aseptic facility due to open at St Thomas’ Hospital in September 2026. Once the new unit is opened, the post holder will provide technical leadership  to the new aseptic unit ensuring the unit they have brought into use provides a safe, efficient and compliant service. 

Main duties of the job

Project Phase

The post holder will be a key member of the Aseptic Phase 1 Project team working on the design, build, validation and start up of the new facility. Key areas of project responsibilities are:

1.     Define and risk assess operational processes and document these in departmental SOPs

2.     Recruitment and selection of operational team to work in the new aseptic unit

3.     Provide training material and deliver training to meet the requirements of the operational unit

4.     Work with EPIC and Primary Treatment Centre (PTC) staff to define the Epic requirements in terms of product builds, verifications and workflows and ensure these are appropriately documented

5.     Work with the project team to document, review and schedule validation activities with specific focus on performance and process testing. To ensure there are sufficient resources, staff and materials, to undertake this testing.

Post project Phase

The post holder will act as technical team leader within aseptic services at Guy’s & St Thomas’ ensuring a high quality, effective and efficient aseptic services that meets the needs of patients and staff.

Working for our organisation

🚀 Join Us at the Forefront of Innovation in Cancer & Advanced Therapy Care!
Pharmacy Aseptic Services – Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

We’re embarking on a groundbreaking journey—and we want you to be a part of it.

Guy’s & St Thomas’ is building a brand-new, state-of-the-art Pharmacy Aseptic Unit at our St Thomas’ site, purpose-built for the preparation of chemotherapy and cutting-edge advanced therapies. This is more than just a project—it’s a transformation that will shape the future of patient care.

🌟 Why Join Us?

  • Be at the centre of innovation: Play a vital role in designing and launching a modern aseptic facility.
  • Drive real impact: Your expertise will directly contribute to improving outcomes for patients requiring highly specialised treatments.
  • Work with the best: Collaborate with leaders across pharmacy, clinical services, procurement, finance, and Trust management.
  • Shape the future: Influence every stage—from specification and validation to full operational delivery—with quality and patient care at the heart of it all.

💼 What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Leading on technical aspects of the new unit’s design and operation.
  • Ensuring full compliance with regulatory and quality standards.
  • Being a key voice in a cross-functional project team to create a facility that is future-ready.
  • Helping to deliver a unit that reflects the evolving needs of modern medicine.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main areas of the role relate to:

Project phase

Post project phase:

  • service management
  • staff management
  • quality management
  • service and staff development
  • finances
  • workload management

 

See detailed duties in the job description

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Pharmacy technician
  • Post graduate technical services qualification or equivalent demonstrated portfolio of experience and short courses

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrated experience of operationally managing and planning aseptic supply services with extensive experience of chemotherapy aseptic services
  • Managing a pharmaceutical quality management system and the identification and reduction of risk
  • Multidisciplinary working within professions involved in the supply of aseptic doses with extensive experience of working within a multidisciplinary chemotherapy service

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrated knowledge of the validation requirements for pharmaceutical facilities, equipment and products
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of professionals and patients within a hospital setting
  • Demonstrated ability to adjust plans and organise a number of different operations to ensure all targets are met.
  • Demonstrated ability to train and assess others in a GMP compliant manner
  • Demonstrated ability to apply specialist knowledge GMP, GCP, Quality Assurance to ensure a safe and effective service provision

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Helen Callaby
Job title
QP / Technical Lead Aseptic Unit Project
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Paul Tunstell

Associate Chief Pharmacist

[email protected]

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