# Chief Aseptic Services Technician – CIVAS & PN

**Company**: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £58,133 to £65,261 a year p.a inc HCA (pro rata)
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an exceptional and highly motivated Chief Aseptic Services Technician to lead our CIVAS and Parenteral Nutrition (PN) services.

The Chief technician reports to the accountable pharmacist and is responsible for providing operational leadership to the aseptic services team, ensuring the safe, efficient, and compliant preparation and supply of high-risk injectable medicines and outsourced nutrition.

The post holder will play a key role in maintaining and developing the Pharmaceutical Quality System, driving continuous improvement, managing staff performance and development, and ensuring delivery of service objectives aligned with Trust priorities.

Working closely with pharmacy, nursing, and clinical colleagues, you will help shape the future of aseptic services while maintaining the highest standards of patient safety, quality assurance, and operational excellence.

**Main duties of the job**

- Provide operational leadership for the CIVAS & PN service, ensuring safe, effective, and efficient service delivery.

- Lead, manage, and develop the aseptic technical workforce, including recruitment, training, competency assessment, and performance management.

- Ensure compliance with the Pharmaceutical Quality Management System, QAAPS standards, GMP requirements, and national guidance.

- Oversee quality assurance activities, audits, investigations, incident management, CAPAs, and continuous improvement programmes.

- Develop and maintain policies, procedures, and SOPs to support regulatory compliance and best practice.

- Support strategic projects, service expansion, and the delivery of aseptic clinical trials.

- Manage staffing resources, operational planning, stock control, and supplier contracts to maintain service continuity.

- Build collaborative relationships across pharmacy, clinical services, and external partners to drive innovation and service improvement.

**Person Specification**

- Qualifications: Registered Pharmacy Technician, Postgraduate technical services qualification or equivalent demonstrated portfolio of experience and short courses.

- Experience: Demonstrated experience of operationally managing and planning aseptic supply services with extensive experience of aseptic services; Managing a pharmaceutical quality management system and the identification and reduction of risk; Multidisciplinary working within professions involved in the supply of aseptic doses with extensive experience of working within a multidisciplinary CIVAS, PN, or Chemotherapy service.

- Skills: Demonstrated knowledge of the validation requirements for pharmaceutical facilities, equipment, and products; Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of professionals and patients within a hospital setting; Demonstrated ability to adjust plans and organise a number of different operations to ensure all targets are met; Demonstrated ability to train and assess others in a GMP compliant manner; Demonstrated ability to apply specialist knowledge GMP, GCP, Quality Assurance to ensure a safe and effective service provision.

## Skills

### Required
- Pharmaceutical Quality Management System
- QAAPS standards
- GMP requirements
- Quality Assurance
- CIVAS
- Parenteral Nutrition
- aseptic services
- leadership
- management
- regulatory compliance

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