Senior Technician - Aseptic Trainer

Pharmacy Aseptic Services provides a range of sterile medicinal products including Chemotherapy, Total Parenteral Nutrition, Clinical Trial medication and other sterile medicinal products.

Our team is friendly and diverse and devoted to providing safe and timely products for our patients.  Our services are an important part of a patient's journey and we take pride knowing that we are making a difference to the patient's health and recovery.

To deliver practical and theoretical competency-based training to all staff allocated to the department to ensure GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) compliance is always adhered to.

To ensure all training packages/records are up to date and staff working within this area are competent. To maintain a high standard of Aseptic competence and knowledge to deliver the training effectively.

To assist the Principal Pharmacy Technicians with the day-to-day co-ordination when necessary.

To always maintain high professional standards and ensure that statutory regulations concerning Aseptic Services and the provisions of the Health and Safety at Work Act are complied with.

• NVQ3 Pharmacy Services, BTEC Pharmaceutical Science OR CGLI/Apothecaries Hall pre-1985 certificates.
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhc)
• Science Manufacturing Technician –SMT Apprenticeship (Level 3 Diploma in the Principles of Aseptic Pharmaceuticals Processing
• Registered Science Technician -RSsciTech
• Evidence of teaching, training and supervision
• Substantial Aseptic Manufacturing experience
• Current post Band 5 or above
• Good team player and sensitive to the need to optimise team performance
• Basic computer literacy (word, excel, outlook).
• Up to date knowledge of GMP and GCP
• Pharmacy computerised systems
• Good presentation skills
• Good verbal communication
• Good written communication
• Good interpersonal skills
• Regularly communicates with key groups / stakeholders
• The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.

• Member of Association of Pharmacy Technicians (APT(UK)
• Pharmaceutical Technology and Quality Assurance experience
• Leeds Aseptic Course for Managers or equivalent.
• Train the Trainer Course or equivalent
• NVQ Assessor Award
• Accuracy Checking Accreditation
• Staff Appraisal and Personal Development experience
• Recruitment and selection experience
• NHS Experience
• Audit Reporting
• Project management knowledge
• Experience of report writing
• Writing Standard Operating Procedures
• Writing Training documents

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.