Senior Pharmacist Aseptic Services

Overview

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

The closing date is 13 November 2025

This is an excited opportunity to work in a state of the art aseptic manufacturing facilities. The Aseptic Services Senior Pharmacist is responsible for leading, managing, and developing the pharmacy technical services unit to ensure the safe, efficient, and compliant preparation of sterile medicinal products under our Specials Manufacturing license.

Main duties of the job

The postholder oversees day-to-day GMP activities, supervises and trains pharmacy staff and technicians, ensures quality assurance procedures are maintained. The postholder also will lead on the validation and qualification of state of the art manufacturing equipment to ensure GMP compliance. They role act as the key liaison between the customers, clinical teams and the production unit, providing pharmaceutical advice on the use of injectable therapies, chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, and other sterile products.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

Job responsibilities

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.

Qualifications

• Registered pharmacist
• Minimum 4 years hospital experience
• Aseptic experience
• Business planning experience
• GMP experience and understanding
• Oncology therapeutics
• Technical and aseptic services knowledge and experience
• Regulatory inspection experience
• General clinical pharmacy practice

Skills, abilities and attributes

• Time management
• Demonstrate effective multi-disciplinary team work

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.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

£70,396 to £80,837 per year, inclusive of High Cost Area Supplement (pro rata)