Production Specialist - Education & Training
Do you have a passion for education and training and want to help develop a skilled, futureready workforce? We have an exciting opportunity for an Education and Training Production Specialist to join our dynamic and supportive team, delivering highquality education and training and contributing to workforce development within the Pharmacy Manufacturing Unit. We are looking for an enthusiastic, selfmotivated individual with high professional standards and a strong commitment to learning. You will help promote a positive learning culture, supporting staff to develop the skills required for safe, effective and innovative practice. This is an excellent opportunity to further develop your leadership skills within a collaborative environment that values development, coaching and continuous improvement. It is an exciting time to join the team as we are part of a national programme transforming aseptic services across England, with West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT) identified as a pathfinder site. Our expanding service supports the development of a new, stateoftheart Aseptic Hub. Based at Moor House, we operate under an MHRA Specials licence, supplying highquality pharmaceutical IV medicines to patients.
Main duties of the job
This is a fulltime post (37.5 hours), worked flexibly over a fourday week (MondayFriday), including some late shifts until 7pm, with participation in weekend and bank holiday rotas.
The post will be based at Moor House, Moor Road, Leeds, LS10 2JQ
About us
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities. Central to it all is The Leeds Way, our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.
Contact
For questions about this job, contact:
Name: Tracey Rowett
Position: Advanced Production Specialist - E&T
Email: tracey.rowett@nhs.net
Phone number: 0113 3927051
Job Description
Why you should join our team
The Pharmacy Department at Leeds Teaching Hospitals is highly respected and forward thinking, with a strong reputation for collaborative working and workforce development.
We are proud of our hardworking and dedicated workforce and are committed to creating a positive and inclusive working environment where colleagues feel valued, supported and united in putting patients first.
We will be moving to our new state of the art Aseptic Hub in 2027, so this is an exciting time to join us.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
What you will bring to the role
* Leading, developing and delivering education and training across the service, working with the E&T Lead to support workforce development.
* Planning and delivering specialist education programmes, including oversight of the inhouse training programme, ensuring materials, documentation and competency assessments are current, compliant and aligned with GMP and best practice.
* Supporting the training, assessment and ongoing development of technical and support staff against agreed competency frameworks, in collaboration with QA, workforce colleagues, education teams and external providers.
* Acting as an Educational Supervisor, mentor and coach for staff undertaking pharmacy qualifications, apprenticeships and other learning programmes.
* Identifying and resolving education and training issues, including performance concerns and conflict, in a fair and supportive manner.
* Contributing to competency framework development and supporting recruitment, induction and retention initiatives.
* Providing operational support to the Pharmacy Manufacturing Unit, including supervision, accuracy checking and maintaining patient safety within a GMP aseptic environment.
* Contributing to management team activities, including service planning, continuous improvement and workforce development initiatives.
About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:
Patient-centred, Collaborative, Fair, Accountable, Empowered.
All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values.
We’re committed to recruiting exceptional people to deliver outstanding services across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and helping every colleague reach their full potential. We’re looking for a compassionate, inclusive, and collaborative leader who shares our values and can build strong partnerships. We warmly invite applications from people from a variety of backgrounds and sectors, and are especially keen to hear from individuals from a minority ethnic background. We’re dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and has a true sense of belonging, as we work together to deliver the best in healthcare to the people of Leeds and beyond.
Sponsorship Eligibility
To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found.
Qualifications
* BTEC in pharmaceutical science or NVQ level 3 in pharmacy services or Science Manufacturing with relevant experience
* Degree in Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, Biology, Microbiology, Biomedical Sciences (or similar)
* BTEC/Certificate in Aseptic Dispensing or Quality Assurance or equivalent
* Eligible for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), Science Council or equivalent professional body
* Training, Education, Supervisory or Management qualification
* Completion of mentor, trainer, and assessor training
* NVQ Assessors award or equivalent
Experience
* Broad range of technical skills – Aseptic preparation and Good Manufacturing practice
* Experience of training others
* Accuracy checking training
* Recruitment & selection
* Staff training and development
* Good manufacturing, dispensing, distribution, practice
* Incident and error reporting Health & Safety / COSHH
* Extensive post qualification experience in hospital or industry at Pharmacy Technician higher level, or equivalent
* Management or supervisory experience of technical and support staffAbsence management
* Performance review of staff
* Developing and implementation of procedures
* Experience as a workplace training / educational supervisor, mentor or equivalent
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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