Lead Pharmacy Technician – Quality Assurance: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

Following the successful move into our state-of-the-art facilities at Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), we are seeking an experienced, motivated, and forward-thinking Lead Pharmacy Technician – Quality Assurance to join our expanding Pharmacy team. This is a highly specialised role with a key responsibility for leading and developing Quality Assurance activities across the Aseptic Preparation Unit (APU), ensuring compliance with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), NHS Quality Assurance of Aseptic Preparation Services (QAAPS) standards and all relevant regulatory requirements. The post holder will play a pivotal role in maintaining and improving the Quality Management System, supporting environmental monitoring programmes, managing audits, investigations, CAPAs, change controls, and inspection readiness, while helping to ensure the safe delivery of aseptic and chemotherapy services. We are looking for an individual with excellent leadership, communication and problem-solving skills. We offer a supportive and innovative working environment, access to excellent training and development opportunities and the chance to influence and shape quality systems. This is an exciting opportunity for a pharmacy technician who is passionate about quality, patient safety and service excellence to make a significant impact within a progressive and ambitious pharmacy team.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job are the following:

• Lead the day-to-day delivery of Quality Assurance activities within the APU, ensuring compliance with GMP, QAAPS standards and regulatory requirements.
• Manage and develop quality systems, including deviations, CAPAs, change controls, audits, validation, and risk management processes.
• Oversee environmental monitoring and quality control programmes, investigating trends and implementing corrective actions where required.
• Coordinate internal audits and support external inspections, ensuring the service remains inspection-ready at all times.
• Act as an authorised product approver for aseptic products, supporting the safe release of chemotherapy and other aseptically prepared medicines.
• Provide specialist quality assurance advice and support to pharmacy, aseptic services and clinical trials teams.
• Support staff training, competency assessment and continuous quality improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of pharmacy technical services, ensuring safe, efficient and patient-focused service delivery.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NVQ3, BTEC or equivalent in pharmaceutical science
• Must be registered with General Pharmaceutical Council
• CPD post qualification experience through a series of short and long-term courses to obtain specialist knowledge relevant to area of practice. All of which, together is the equivalent to degree level
• Accredited Checking technicians award (ACPT)

Desirable

• Product Approval Accreditation Programme

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as a senior technician in a hospital environment.
• Proven experience of supervising and management of staff
• Computer literate, with a proven ability to search for relevant information on various databases, and evaluate data in order to formulate a response to enquiries.
• Accurate data input skills.
• Problem solving skills and approach on a wide range of highly complex clinical and non-clinical issues requiring analysis, interpretation and judgement
• Proven ability to dispense medicines and information regarding medications accurately without making errors.
• Proven ability to check medicines dispensed by others and to detect any errors that may have been made.
• Experience in dispensing clinical trials.
• Working knowledge of a broad range of medicines and their safety issues

Desirable

• Experienced in writing departmental procedures

Written and analytical skills

Essential

• Ability to read and understand complex information
• Ability and experience of writing and implementing SOPs

Desirable

• Ability to write and implement SOPs

Management/Supervision skills

Essential

• Supervised and managed staff/Line management
• Experience of carrying out PDR’s
• Complex sickness management
• Ability to co-ordinate workflows
• Meet deadlines
• Plan and organise own workload

Knowledge

Essential

• Up to date knowledge of medicines legislation and legal requirements for dispensing and supplying medications
• Knowledge of health and safety and COSHH regulations

Mental effort

Essential

• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment with frequent interruptions
• Ability to accurately dispense and final check for long periods

Closing Date: 27 October 2026