Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7212820JA
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wansbeck General Hospital
- Town
- Ashington
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Pharmacy Manufacturing Technician
Band 5
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and determined individual to join our progressive team, with a national reputation for innovation and development. You will be part of the Production team using your leadership and technical skills within our licenced Pharmacy Production Unit (PPU).
You will be part of this exciting future, where the PPU develops products and processes to support other healthcare professional at ward level across the Trust.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
The post will be based at Wansbeck General Hospital but the post holder may be required to work at other sites within the Trust.
Weekend cover will be based at NSECH to support the 7 day clinical service.
Production Pharmacy Manufacturing Technician (Band 5) will aid in the maintenance of the Pharmacy Quality System and meeting requirements of Good Manufacturing Practice. There will be a requirement to carry out Initial Accuracy Checking of bespoke Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatments (SACT) and Ready-to-administer (RtA) antibiotics and Assembled batch products (Over-labelling) and all associated documents.
Your role will include oversight and line management of Production Team Leaders to assist and develop the role to ensure team is performing effectively.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Production Pharmacy Manufacturing Technician (Band 5):
Initial Accuracy Checking of bespoke Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatments (SACT), Ready-to-administer (RtA) batched antibiotics, and Assembled batch products (Over-labelling)
Lead on training and development of staff within the PPU.
Line Management of Production Team Leaders and Production Assistants.
Report monthly Key Performance Indicator (KPI) figures to ensure PPU is operating effectively.
Plan and allocate staffing resource to meet service demands.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BTEC/NVQ Level 3 and recognised underpinning knowledge qualification to NVQ Level 3 or equivalent pharmaceutical science qualification.
- Registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council, or Science Manufacturing Technician with Science Council (if not registered upon applying for post registration would be required prior to start).
- IT skills to include Word, Excel, PowerPoint and pharmacy ordering and dispensing systems.
- Evidence of relevant Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Relevant experience working in a Pharmacy Production Unit, and knowledge of preparation of aseptic products, procurement, and distribution.
Desirable criteria
- Successfully completed the 'Aseptic Services for Managers' course run by the University of Leeds (if not already held there will be an expectation to achieve this when a training opportunity becomes available
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Mark Knowles
- Job title
- Head of Production
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01670 529061
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