Non-sterile Production Unit Leader - Colchester, United Kingdom - East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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Have you got the enthusiasm and confidence to take up the challenge of this newly vacated post in the Pharmacy Technical Services department, working closely with the Head of Pharmacy Production and Chief Production Leader in the management of the day-to-day and strategic needs of Non-Sterile Production services.


Working as part of the team within the Main Pharmacy department you will deliver a high quality, flexible and responsive service, whilst developing efficiency savings and ensuring regulatory compliance.


Manage the preparation of Non-Sterile products as required for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) and all Pharmacy (internal & external) customers, ensuring that GMP guidelines are followed at all times.


Monitor the Non-Sterile production workload and scheduling and organise adequate staffing to cover necessary activities and allocating work to staff as appropriate.

Participate in the manufacture of over-labelled, repacked, extemporaneous and batch manufactured products.

Support the recruitment, training and development of production staff, ensuring comprehensive training programmes are available and records are maintained.

Coordinate, maintain and promote an efficient and economic production service, providing a reactive service in response to changing circumstances.

Support in the management and maintenance of the Pharmaceutical Quality System for production activities, working closely with the Quality Assurance team

Liaise with the team and senior managers to report problems, share information and improve the working of the team.

Discuss changes in practice required by policy and strategy review and the implications this will have on the team and on an individual basis.

Share constructive ideas and respond to feedback for improving the service and suggest how these ideas may be taken forward.


Promote income generation by ensuring the manufacturing service responds in a timely and effective manner to customers both inside and external to the Trust.


One of the largest Trust's in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area.

We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients' own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.


Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts.

Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone.

Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.


To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship.

All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this.


If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

Please find the job description and person specification attached for more information regarding the role.

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