Senior Pharmacist / Senior Pharmaceutical Scientist: Sponsorship Available

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Senior Pharmacist / Senior Pharmaceutical Scientist

Pharmacy Aseptic Services

Aseptic Production Unit

Band 7 (37.5 hours per week) + EDC

We are a major acute teaching Trust offering a wide range of clinical specialities, including tertiary referrals for HIV and Renal Medicine.

We have a highly regarded Aseptic Production Unit (APU) at the Trust with a Manufacturing site licensed in June 2023. You will work closely with our Aseptic Service Leads to help steer the quality facilitating programmes at the production unit. This post generates an opportunity for a Pharmacist / Scientist to join an expanding team delivering the pharmaceutical needs of patients at the Trust and across the NHS. The post holder will be expected to focus on the need for Aseptic Production Services with responsibilities for efficient and safe service provision.

Support for appropriate further clinical & technical development, is available.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will contribute to overseeing the operational quality aspects of the production processes, in a cost effective and efficient manner, assuring the quality of all unlicensed medicines manufactured and prepared at the Aseptic Production Unit (APU).

The post holder will ensure timely release of prepared and manufactured unlicensed medicines and will certify all unlicensed medicines as having been prepared or manufactured in compliance with current Rules and Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • M Pharm Degree or equivalent Or Honours degree in pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry or similar scientific subject if combined with further education and training such as the MSc Scientist Training Programme (STP) in Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Registered General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) Member or/& HCPC/ RPS

Desirable

  • Technical qualification such as Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology, Quality Control, Engineering, Manufacturing
  • Post graduate certificate or diploma in a relevant pharmaceutical field

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice and the regulations surrounding Pharmaceutical Manufacture.
  • Knowledge of clean room design and functioning
  • Highly developed Professional knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience

Desirable

  • Specialist knowledge of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Processes including equipment and facility design, construction, validation and testing
  • Knowledge of:- o Aseptic preparation of medicines o Terminal Sterilisation processes o QA/QC services
  • An understanding of medicines management procedures
  • Knowledge of product licensing and medical devices registration

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of product development
  • Evidence of working within GMP/GDP guidelines
  • COSHH Regulations and Health & Safety at Work Act
  • Evidence of significant, relevant and on-going personal CPD

Desirable

  • Experience of Pharmaceutical Manufacture in either a hospital or industrial environment or previous experience of managing aseptic dispensing services

Skills

Essential

  • Leadership and motivational skills
  • Problem solving and analytical skills
  • Planning and organisational skills; ability to prioritise demands on service and plan workload of self and others
  • Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills; ability to communicate with a range of people such as technicians, pharmacists, engineers, clinicians and customers

Desirable

  • Change management
  • Project Management skills

Other

Essential

  • Capable team worker with ability to create and sustain good relationships
  • Able to deal with constant interruptions, multiple pressures and at times aggression
  • Methodical with attention to detail

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 24 September 2026

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