Job summary
- Main area
- Medicines Manufacturing Centre
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7421367JN
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Manufacturing and Innovation Hub
- Town
- Seaton Delaval
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Education and Training Coordinator
NHS AfC: Band 7
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
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a proactive and passionate Education and Training Coordinator to join the Medicines Manufacturing Centre (MMC)—a cutting-edge NHS pharmaceutical production facility based in Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. The MMC is in its final design stages, with facility construction planned through to September 2025. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a pioneering NHS manufacturing facility, supporting a leadership team committed to quality, innovation, and patient care. 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
- Responsible for coordinating high-quality, compliant training across all MMC roles.
- Ensures effective delivery of specialist and non-specialist training programmes.
- Oversees training records and compliance data.
- Liaises with internal teams and external providers to meet organisational and MHRA licence requirements.
- Acts as a key contact for training queries and supports a culture of compassionate, inclusive leadership that drives collaboration and continuous improvement.
Working for our organisation
All employees of the Medicine Manufacturing Centre (MMC) are currently employed by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, under Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions. Should the service be transferred into alternative ownership, those employees with start dates prior to the transfer date, will be protected under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE). Therefore, employees will transfer to the new employer on the same terms and conditions, which are protected and the employees’ continuity of employment is preserved.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Lead the coordination and monitoring of systems used for the collection, recording and presentation of training progress/compliance data, to meet internal and external (including MHRA licence) needs, and liaising with relevant trust/provider teams as required.
- Support the work of the training team, in conjunction with operational managers, to support timely completion of induction, development, competency, work placements/trainees, mandatory and licence training requirements across all MMC staff roles.
- Keep up to date with developments across training disciplines and make suggestions for improvements to ensure innovation and best practice are routinely addressed.
- Work with MMC production and quality staff to ensure operational changes are reflected in training design and delivery.
- To support the delivery of external or sub-contracted training provision. Supports the quality management system and MHRA licence compliance through audits, implementation and investigation of deviations, providing staff training and re-training as deemed necessary.
- To act as a contact for MMC staff for training queries and performance issues as they arise, escalating to the Education and Training Lead and senior production team as and when necessary.
- To contribute to the development of a regional academy-based approach
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of a range of specific project areas, acquired through a Degree in Pharmacy, Chemistry, Biology, or a related scientific field OR Basic qualification in pharmaceutical sciences (BTEC) or an equivalent scientific qualification to same level with a Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmaceutical Technology or similar, OR equivalent experience.
- Knowledge of environmental monitoring and an understanding of microbiological factors relating to aseptic preparation and licensed manufacturing
Desirable criteria
- S/NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services and approved underpinning knowledge e.g. BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent recognised pharmacy technician qualification
- Professional Registered with GPhC or HCPC or Joint Professional Body (i.e. RSC, RPS, RBS)
- Registered clinical scientists with MSc in clinical pharmaceutical sciences or equivalent level Expertise in the manufacture of an extensive range of specialist pharmaceutical products. To include demonstrable understanding of a range of pharmacy work practices and procedures
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in training QA staff
- Knowledge of managing training programmes e.g., GMP competency assessment and regular revalidation of staff in production and QC.
- Knowledge of requirements of training and development programmes
- Practical and theoretical knowledge (degree level or equivalent) of all aspects of Production Services including Good Manufacturing Practice, Sterile Production, Quality Assurance and Control, and Preparation and Manufacturing Services
- A good understanding of current legislation and guidance documents on aseptic preparation and licensed manufacturing
- Awareness of the importance and application of Health and Safety and COSHH within Production Services and QC labs.
- Experience of organising and undertaking training of technical and support staff
- Experience of appraising staff and setting objectives
Desirable criteria
- Experience in using GMP pharmaceutical quality systems
- Experience of CIVA, PN, Cytotoxics and aseptic manufacturing as well as the manufacture of sterile and non-sterile products.
- Experience of QC lab skills / testing requirements in pharmaceutical manufacture of sterile medicines
- Experience of GMP stores requirements and training of warehouse staff
- Practical experience of Isolator Technology
- Practical experience of Pharmaceutical Quality Management Systems
- Management training
- Operational management
- Performance management
- Experience of a busy manufacturing/production service as a Leader e.g. organising work, staff rotas, scheduling work, service delivery, capacity and contingency planning
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jody Varley
- Job title
- Education and Training Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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