Job overview
Pharmacy Production Queen's Hospital, Pharmacy Production Checking Officer, Band 5, 22.5 hours per week (Monday,Tuesday, Wednesday plus Saturday rota).
We require an experienced member of Pharmacy Production staff to join our team working in our licenced, commercial aseptics unit at Queen's Hospital.
You will be responsible for the final checking of Parenteral Nutrition and other injectable products such as antibiotics, patient controlled analgesia and cytotoxics, preparation of batch documentation, customer liaison and supervision of setting up/disinfection area on rotation. You must be methodical, accurate and able to work within a team. Candidates will have either NVQ level 3 in Pharmacy, SMT level 3 apprenticeship or science degree/equivalent experience.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will carry out specialist aseptic dispensing and final checking in a professional manner, helping provide a high quality, customer orientated service to the standards required
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the.
We run a in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application, please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education / Qualification
Essential criteria
1. NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy, SMT apprenticeship in aseptics, undergraduate degree or Aseptic Processing Course and experience of aseptic preparation and in process checking
Skills / Abilities
Essential criteria
2. Excellent communication skills
3. Demonstrate attention to detail and accuracy
Knowledge / Experience
Essential criteria
4. Experience of hospital pharmacy production including aseptic dispensing.
Desirable criteria
5. Final checking of aseptic products
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.