Production Manager

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

We are looking for an ambitious Production Manager to lead our Aseptic Services Team at Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals. This is your chance to play a pivotal role in delivering life changing treatments, ensuring the highest quality standards in sterile manufacturing, and shaping the future of aseptic services.

As the Production Manager, you will take overall responsibility for MHRA-licensed aseptic manufacturing units, ensuring compliance with GMP standards, national regulations, and patient safety protocols. You will lead a dedicated team, driving service innovation and operational excellence while managing external contracts, budgets, and performance targets. Your expertise will help train and develop staff, oversee production planning, and ensure that all processes meet the highest quality and safety standards.

We are looking for an inspirational leader with an MSc in Pharmacy or a related scientific degree and extensive experience in GMP within NHS or pharmaceutical sterile manufacturing. You must have strong leadership, problem solving, and strategic planning skills, with a passion for developing teams and improving patient care. Experience in regulatory compliance, service transformation, and staff training is essential.

If you're ready to take on a high-impact leadership role in one of the most critical areas of pharmacy services, we want to hear from you. Join us and work within aseptic pharmacy at one of London's leading Trusts. Apply today!

Main duties of the job

• Lead the MHRA-licensed aseptic manufacturing units, ensuring full compliance with GMP, national regulations, and patient safety protocols.
• Oversee aseptic production operations, managing staff, workflows, and ensuring medicines are produced safely and efficiently.
• Develop and implement strategic plans for service improvement, ensuring aseptic services align with the Trust's long-term goals.
• Manage training and staff development, ensuring all team members are skilled in aseptic techniques and quality standards.
• Oversee financial and operational performance, managing budgets, contracts, and resources to maximise efficiency and service quality.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MSc in pharmacy or related scientific degree, OR post graduate diploma in Technical Pharmacy or equivalent qualification and experience
• AND Extensive experience in GMP within an NHS or pharmaceutical industry sterile facility

Desirable criteria

• Advanced interpersonal skills
• Registration with professional body

Experience / Skills/Knowledge/

Essential criteria

• Detailed working knowledge of NHS and Pharmacy practices, policies and procedures.
• Effective computer / IT knowledge and skills.
• Ability to influence team members and healthcare staff (e.g. General practitioners & District Nurses)
• Responsible for own Continuing Professional Development
• Demonstrable leadership skills
• Good attention to detail

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of health service culture.
• Knowledge of the National Aseptic Review
• Experience of the CMM pharmacy computer system and QPULSE

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 576.5KB)
• Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 240.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)