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Head of Quality Control | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £62,215 - £72,293 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 March 2025 |
| Location: | Seaton Delaval, NE25 0QJ |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6923516/319-6923516JN |
Summary
Head of Quality Control (QC) – Medicines Manufacturing Centre (MMC)
An exceptional opportunity has arisen to play a key leadership role in the Medicines Manufacturing Centre (MMC)—a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to producing sterile injectable medicinal products for the NHS. Based in Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, MMC will operate under MHRA Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards, ensuring a secure supply chain for Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) products within the NHS for the next 10 years.
As Head of QC, you will lead both chemistry and microbiology activities within dedicated laboratories, ensuring the highest standards of compliance, safety, and quality. You will be responsible for building and leading the Quality Control team, overseeing the qualification of state-of-the-art analytical equipment, and implementing best-in-class QC procedures.
Why This Role Matters
At MMC, patients and quality are at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is to support NHS nurses and wards by delivering Ready-to-Administer (RtA) medicines, freeing up valuable time for direct patient care. By ensuring a stable and efficient supply chain of critical medicines, you will play a pivotal role in improving patient outcomes—working behind the scenes to make a real difference.
What You’ll Be Doing
Shaping the future of NHS medicines manufacturing by influencing facility design and quality processes
Ensuring the highest quality standards in chemistry and microbiology testing for sterile injectable medicines
Recruiting and leading the QC team, fostering a culture of quality, safety, and innovation
Overseeing procurement and qualification of all QC equipment and systems
Developing and implementing a robust PQS (Pharmaceutical Quality System) to ensure compliance with GMP standards
Working at MMC
The MMC is in its final design stages, with facility construction planned through to September 2025. Initially, staff will be employed by Northumbria Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust, with employment transferring to the Medicines Manufacturing Centre Legal Liability Partnership (LLP) upon its formation under TUPE regulations.
This is a once-in-a-career opportunity to help build a pioneering medicine manufacturing facility from the ground up. If you are passionate about pharmaceutical quality, innovation, and making a real impact on patient care, we want to hear from you.
Apply today and be part of something transformational.
• To provide leadership on all Quality Control (QC) related aspects within the MMC. This includes both Chemistry and Microbiology
• Implement QC policies which complies with Good Manufacturing Practice
• To lead in the creation of URS, tendering documentation and validation documentation for all chemistry and microbiology equipment
• To support the management of contractors and to lead on the commissioning and qualification of facilities and manufacturing equipment
• To lead on the implementation of a strategy to ensure a robust and fit for purpose QC workforce
• To perform QC Specialist functions as required including representation at national and regional level
• Manages the laboratory staff during day to day operations and longer term planning
Produces protocols and approves reports for stability studies, investigational work and validations
Leads on the implementation of stability studies, ongoing stability testing program investigational work and validations
This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Feb 2025
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