Quality Assurance Technical Officer
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 25/09/2026
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Role summary
Join the national Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) Quality Assurance Team to help shape medicines quality across the NHS. This role involves supporting the quality assurance of medicines procurement, formulation, and stability. You will provide expert advice to healthcare professionals to ensure medicines supplied across the NHS are evidence-based, safe, and of the highest quality. The position requires a degree in a relevant scientific or technical subject or significant experience in pharmaceutical technical services, with a focus on medicines manufacture, preparation, storage, and supply.
Essential criteria
- Degree in relevant scientific or technical subject or equivalent experience to degree level
- Basic qualification in pharmaceutical sciences (BTEC) or an equivalent scientific qualification
Desirable criteria
- Further qualification in risk management or quality assurance
- Member of a recognised professional body i.e. Royal College of Pharmacy
- Experience of working in a pharmacy or medicines related environment
- Experience of writing instructional documents e.g. SOPs and work instructions
- Experience of risk management and quality management systems and their application
- Experience of working with colleagues at different levels of the organisation, between disciplines or with clients
- Understanding of the principles of quality assurance as applicable to medicines manufacture and preparation
- Specialist knowledge of the regulatory, Royal College of Pharmacy and NHS standards and guidance relating to medicines manufacture and preparation.
- Specialist knowledge of the regulatory, Royal College of Pharmacy and NHS standards and guidance relating to the safe storage and supply of medicines.
- Experience of working in or closely with the NHS
- Experience of Good Manufacturing Practice and/or Good Laboratory Practice relating to Pharmaceutical manufacturing and preparation
- Experience of quality assessment of pharmaceuticals
- Evidence of supporting the purchasing of medicines and services
- Understanding of the Royal College of Pharmacy standards and guidance relating to homecare medicines services.
- Understanding of health and safety legislation as applicable to medicines manufacture and preparation.
- Understanding of clean-room design, technology and operation for pharmaceutical processing.
- Understanding of pharmaceutical quality control testing methods and their application to medicines manufacture and preparation
- Excellent communication skills
- Able to cope with conflict and handle difficult situations with a calm disposition.
- Excellent time management and organisational skills, with an ability to plan and schedule complex activities.
- Excellent investigational and analytical skills, with an ability to deal with complex facts and situations requiring interpretation.
- Excellent training skills within both small groups and large workshops
- Degree in relevant scientific or technical subject or equivalent experience to degree level
- Basic qualification in pharmaceutical sciences (BTEC) or an equivalent scientific qualification
- Further qualification in risk management or quality assurance
- Member of a recognised professional body i.e. Royal College of Pharmacy
- Experience of working in a pharmacy or medicines related environment
- Experience of writing instructional documents e.g. SOPs and work instructions
- Experience of risk management and quality management systems and their application
- Experience of working with colleagues at different levels of the organisation, between disciplines or with clients
- Understanding of the principles of quality assurance as applicable to medicines manufacture and preparation
- Specialist knowledge of the regulatory, Royal College of Pharmacy and NHS standards and guidance relating to medicines manufacture and preparation.
- Specialist knowledge of the regulatory, Royal College of Pharmacy and NHS standards and guidance relating to the safe storage and supply of medicines.
- Experience of working in or closely with the NHS
- Experience of Good Manufacturing Practice and/or Good Laboratory Practice relating to Pharmaceutical manufacturing and preparation
- Experience of quality assessment of pharmaceuticals
- Evidence of supporting the purchasing of medicines and services
- Understanding of the Royal College of Pharmacy standards and guidance relating to homecare medicines services.
- Understanding of health and safety legislation as applicable to medicines manufacture and preparation.
- Understanding of clean-room design, technology and operation for pharmaceutical processing.
- Understanding of pharmaceutical quality control testing methods and their application to medicines manufacture and preparation
- Excellent communication skills
- Able to cope with conflict and handl
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
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Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Quality Assurance Technical Officer
The closing date is 25 September 2026
Job summary
Join the SPS Quality Assurance Team and help shape medicines quality across the NHS.
We are seeking a motivated, enthusiastic and forward-thinkingindividualto join the nationalSpecialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) Quality Assurance Team.The successful candidate will have a degree in a relevant scientific or technical subject or significant experience working in pharmaceutical technical services. Experience relating to the manufacture, preparation, storage and supply of medicines is required.
This is a complex role, requiring excellent communication, presentation, investigational and analytical skills.
Main duties of the job
As a Quality Assurance Technical Officer, the successful candidate will support the quality assurance of medicines procurement, formulation and stability, providing expert advice and support to healthcare professionals to help ensure that medicines supplied across the NHS are evidence-based, safe and of the highest quality.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and L
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