Job summary
Employer heading
Senior Pharmacy Support Officer Quality Assurance
NHS AfC: Band 3
Job overview
The Pharmacy Department at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital is looking for an enthusiastic motivated individual to support quality management and assurance functions within the department.
The department handles a high volume of unlicensed medicines, has an Aseptic unit and operates a wholesale dealers license.
An interest in working in a hospital pharmacy quality assurance role specifically within Aseptics would be advantageous.
Main duties of the job
To carry out a range of technical duties within the pharmacy.
Monitor Aseptic facilities, receive unlicensed products and approve for use
Perform environmental monitoring of aseptic facilities and analyse environmental and physical monitoring results against agreed standards and raise initial reports where these are ‘out of specification’
Working for our organisation
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is the main provider of acute hospital services for around half a million people in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales.
Encompassing some of the most picturesque parts of England and Wales, the Trust's catchment stretches from the Cambrian Mountains in the west, to Newport and the fringes of the Black Country in the east. The main towns include: Bridgnorth, Ludlow, Market Drayton, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Whitchurch (in Shropshire); Newport, Telford and Wellington (in Telford & Wrekin); and Newtown and Welshpool (in Powys) - all beautiful and unique.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about this role please see detailed job description and person specification.
Person specification
Person Specification
Essential criteria
- Manual Handling Awareness
Desirable criteria
- Stores / Stock control awareness.
Person Specification
Essential criteria
- GCSEs including Maths, English equivalent at grade D or above
- Any work experience in a customer lab environment
- Attention to detail
Desirable criteria
- Work experience in Pharmacy
- Previous NHS Experience
- Handling COSHH
Applicant requirements
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
- Helen Millett
- Job title
- Senior Pharmacy Technician - Quality Assurance
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01743 261625
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Shrewsbury Business Park
1 Douglas Court
Anchorage Avenue
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY2 6LG
- Telephone
- 01743 492402
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