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Quality Assurance Pharmacist

Dallington, West Northamptonshire
3 weeks ago
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Quality Assurance Pharmacist – Northampton
Opportunity:
Are you a Pharmacist registered with the GPhC? Have you released drugs to prescriptions and have good quality assurance experience? Want to work for a global pharmaceutical company? If yes then please read on.
Your role as a Quality Assurance Pharmacist based in Northampton will involve releasing drugs to prescriptions and physically checking of all the drug orders that are released to the patients.
You will ensure that the pharmacy patient dispensing processes are compliant with GPhC (General Pharmaceutical Council), Pharmacy Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Good Documentation Practices (GDP) and Corporate Quality Manual & ISO standards.
You will act as the Responsible Pharmacist (RP) when required and ensure drugs / prescriptions are released to relevant quality standards.
This is a 18 Months Contract working Monday to Friday 2.00 pm to 10.00 pm.
based in Northampton. The salary is between £50,000 - £52,295.80 per annum with great benefits such as 25 days holiday plus bank holidays on top, 8% Pension, Group Life Assurance and Income Protection, share options and much more….There is also a 5% annual bonus in place.
Skills:
To apply for the role of Quality Assurance Pharmacist you will have the following:

  • Pharmacist registered with the GPhC.
  • Master’s degree in pharmacy (MPharm).
    How to Apply:
    To apply for this one off opportunity, please send a word copy of your CV to me now by clicking on the Apply button or call me for a confidential chat. Please ensure you have read and agree to our Privacy Policy which can be found on the Quality Start website.
    If this sounds like the role for you or a colleague then please don’t hesitate to contact us. If we manage to successfully fill a permanent placement from your recommendation then we will send you a cheque of £300. We also have many incentive schemes for referring contractors/temp staff so please contact us with the referral and we can provide you with more information.
    For a list of our current vacancies, please visit the Quality Start website.
    If you do not hear from Quality Start within 2 weeks your CV has not been short listed for this role.
    Quality Start are acting as a specialist recruitment consultancy for this role

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