The Pharmaxo Group is an award winning, market leading pharmaceutical and healthcare business that serves customers, patients and medical professionals across the UK.
We are located in a modern manufacturing and office facility in Corsham Science Park in Wiltshire, just 5 miles from Chippenham and 8 miles from Bath. The Pharmaxo Group comprises of:
Bath ASU which produces thousands of aseptically (sterile) compounded injectable pharmaceutical products each day for hospitals and patients who are fighting cancer, living with chronic disease or in need of pain relief.
Pharmaxo Healthcare which is a growing clinical homecare provider in an expanding market offering greater convenience to patients whilst delivering efficiencies to the NHS.
Pharmaxo Scientific which develops the innovations in biotechnology, data and information technology that drive our businesses.
Your role
This placement will give you exposure to various departments within the organisation including Production, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Research & Development and Sales.
Your duties & responsibilities
- Produce batch documentation for cytotoxic batch manufacture and patient specific products, Pain Control and IV additive products
- Conduct Production Batch release activities ensuring that products and documentation meet both the Product Specification and GMP requirements
- Final review of pre-manufacture batch documentation, following GMP guidelines.
- Undertake or assist with routine environmental monitoring including temperature, pressure, particulate and microbiological contamination. To report (on relevant form) any results which are outside the stated limits and participate in the immediate corrective actions, causes and preventative measures.
- To assist with quality improvement activities within the Quality Management System
- Contribute to the efficient organisation of the day to day operation of the unit.
- To complete a supervised work based project relating to a chemical/biological aspect.
- To ensure that the relevant principles of “Good Manufacturing Practice” (GMP) are applied at all times
- To ensure compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act and all other relevant legislation e.g. Medicines Act, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH).
- To follow Standard Operating Procedures and to contribute to the development and maintenance of these and other work instructions.
Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week worked on a rota between 06:00 am & 20:00 pm
Benefits
- £23,871 per annum plus £2,500 tax free bursary on return to University*
- Annual leave of 25 days + bank holidays (increasing to 27 days after 3 years service)
- Annual company bonus scheme (subject to scheme eligibility)
- Pension - you will be auto-enrolled after 3 months of employment at 5% (with an employer contribution of 4%). You can also opt to increase your contribution to 6% to which the employer will contribute 8%.
- Generous Life Assurance package
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and virtual GP service
- Pharmaxo Engage is our Reward & Recognition intranet which includes shopping discounts and benefits.
(*Annual bonus and tax-free bursary of £2,500 for candidates final year are subject to appraisals)
