Pharmacy Releasing Officer

FARNHAM PHARMACEUTICAL REPACKAGAING UNIT (Located on outskirts of Aldershot) Applications welcome from Registered Pharmacists. Our normal working week is: 8:30am – 5.00pm, Monday to Friday The Pharmacy Repackaging Unit based in Aldershot currently supplies Frimley Park and 70 other hospitals with pre-packs and emergency kits. As a Releasing Officer you will be ultimately responsible for the release of Finished Products into the market place ready for distribution to Repackaging Unit Customers. You will ensure compliance with ’Good Manufacturing Practice’ (GMP) in order to uphold ‘Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency’ (MHRA) Licence. 1. To be ultimately responsible for release of Finished Products into the market place ready for distribution to Repackaging Unit customers. 1. To carry out the final quality assurance check, according to standard operating procedures, on production batches of medicinal products packed in the licensed Pharmacy Manufacturing Unit, ensuring that all products are packed and labelled to the required standard. 1. To examine starting materials and Finished Products for compliance with specifications and to release or reject each batch as appropriate for use in the 70 NHS Hospitals supplied by the unit. 1. To report, record and take appropriate action on all process deviations according to Standard Operating Procedures. 1. To assist the Production manager to ensure that products are assembled in line with ’Good Manufacturing Practice’ (GMP) in order to uphold ‘Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency’ (MHRA) Licence. Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area. We have three main hospitals – Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough. Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future. We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital’s NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.