Lead Pharmacy Technician - Quality Assurance
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
West Midlands, B71 4HJView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
27 October 2026
8 days leftJob description
Following the successful move into our state-of-the-art facilities at Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), we are seeking an experienced, ...
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.
Please see the attached Person Specification and Job Description for an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role.
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country - one of the country's most culturally diverse areas. It's a friendly and welcoming place - a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.
We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.
Our values - Ambition, Respect and Compassion - are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.
Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to "Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population." It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It's what makes us unique.
We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose.When we say we're 'with you all the way' we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.
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
How to apply
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Provenance
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First seen
7 October 2026
Last checked
8 October 2026
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