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Quality Assurance Pharmacist (Night Shift)

Skin + Me

Skin + Me

Quality Assurance
Park Royal, London, UK
Posted on Mar 3, 2026

Skin + Me is a mission driven start-up with seriously big skin goals.

We’re looking for an experienced pharmacist to join our Pharmacy Team at Skin + Me. This is a full time role working from our production facility to cover the night shift on a 4 on 4 off pattern.

About the role:

As the Night-Shift Pharmacist, you will act as the Responsible Pharmacist on duty overseeing the production and dispensing of personalised prescription creams at our registered pharmacy site. You will be primarily responsible for ensuring regulatory compliance of all operational activities whilst also delivering batch quality control and approving prescriptions from a clinical and legal standpoint. Additionally, you will take an active role in maintaining and developing the Pharmaceutical Quality Management System (PQMS) to ensure continuous compliance of the pharmacy.

This is a pivotal role within the Pharmacy Team with strong ties to the Prescribing, Operations, Engineering and Customer Service team. The successful candidate will work autonomously taking full ownership of their role, take on and complete assignments to a high standard, uphold regulatory standards and act as the responsible pharmacist to meet our pharmacy licence commitments.

What you'll do

  • Maintain clinical governance and regulatory compliance of the pharmacy.
  • Ensure all members of staff adhere to the Quality System.
  • Ensure Policies for Information and Clinical Governance are adhered to by all members of staff.
  • Maintain clinical risk assessments and ensure all legal requirements are met.
  • Ensure best practices are followed to ensure the quality of product and facility
  • Be the responsible person for the operation
  • Having a hands on approach to all aspects of the operation within the facility including quality and batch control analysis
  • Work with the team to continuously improve the safety, efficiency and quality of the facility.
  • Perform batch release processes by reviewing all batch data ensuring the highest quality standards are maintained for every batch.
  • Design and maintain SOP’s for all pharmacy activities ensuring compliance with relevant bodies

GMP responsibilities:

  • Report any suspected falsified medicines if required to the MHRA, as required.
  • Report any deviations, complaints & raw material issues that could lead to a recall
  • Ensure that all staff employed temporarily or permanently carrying out activities are trained appropriately
  • Own incident reporting and process improvement to uphold quality standards
  • Conduct risk assessments and audits to ensure continuous compliance with all legal and regulatory standards

Who you are

Requirements (please still apply if you do not meet all of the following criteria):

  • Qualified pharmacist registered with the GPhC (this is a must have)
  • Natural high achiever, motivated, enthusiastic and meticulous
  • Detailed knowledge of pharmacy regulatory standards, laws and ethics.
  • Knowledge of pharmaceutical science or a committed desire to learn.
  • Experience in a compounding pharmacy or the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Experience with cosmetics or dermatology products

Why should you choose Skin + Me?

  • A daily challenge – in a thrilling, entrepreneurial start-up environment, no two days will ever be the same.
  • Make a difference – work within a revolutionary company that is focused on improving millions of lives.
  • Serious commitment to growth – personal development is important to us and we’ll make sure we support your growth, and give you broad experience across your role.

Benefits

  • 25 Days Holiday + all the usual Bank Holidays (Pro-rata depending on working shift pattern)– It's important to take a break and recharge, that's why we offer a generous holiday allowance.
  • Free Breakfast & Lunch – It’s important you are well fueled for the day so we've got your breakfast and lunch covered. Plus drinks and snacks are available too!
  • Equity – We offer a competitive salary and a generous share award package that means every employee has a stake in the business. We really are all in this together
  • Health and wellbeing focus – We offer a healthcare cash plan, cycle to work schemes plus free healthy breakfast and lunch in the office. We'll be sure to always prioritise your physical and mental health.
  • £500 annual development budget for any learning, training and development opportunities. Courses, books, software – if it helps you in your role, we’ll help you get it.
  • For working parents, we’re proud to offer assistance, helping you save on nursery fees. The workplace nursery benefit allows you to save tax and National Insurance on the full cost of your nursery fees each month.
  • Culture club – Our culture club team meets every week to make sure we celebrate our big wins and milestones too, with parties, surprises and more.
  • You’ll get highly discounted Skin + Me products for you, and 10 friends + family too.
  • Generous employee referral scheme, if you know more fabulous people refer them to work with us too and you’ll get a bonus when they pass probation.

More About Skin + Me and the +Me Brands

There’s a huge problem in the world of personal care: people struggle with more than just how their skin or hair looks. They’re navigating confidence, identity, and long-term health—all deeply personal and ever-changing. The +Me Brands exist to change that.

Skin + Me launched over six years ago with one mission: to revolutionise skincare through personalised, clinically-effective treatment that’s simple, sustainable, and built around real results. Now a category leader and scale-up success story, Skin + Me has delivered millions of personalised treatments through our signature Daily Doser and helped customers transform not just their skin—but how they feel in it.

From that foundation, we’re building out a powerful family of brands:

Hair + Me brings prescription-led, personalised treatment to the world of hair health, tackling concerns like thinning and loss with the same blend of dermatological expertise and tailored solutions.

And now, Renew + Me is our latest evolution—an advanced prescription skincare brand created specifically for midlife women. Born from the insights of Skin + Me and designed to meet the unique needs of women 45+, Renew + Me couples hard-working actives with deeply human insight to become the definitive skincare brand for this powerful life stage.

At +Me Brands, we advocate for real, long-term change—whether it’s better skin, hair, or health. Our mission is rooted in personalisation, expert care, and building deep trust with our customers. No compromises. Just undeniable results.

We recently raised £10 million in Series B funding, backed by top-tier investors like Octopus Ventures and leading DTC founders. Our founding team brings experience from some of the most trusted consumer brands in the world - Facebook, Charlotte Tilbury, Graze.com, and more.

With Skin + Me leading the way and our fast-growing younger brands already gaining traction, the +Me journey is just getting started. We’re scaling fast—and we’d love for you to be part of it.

Think you’re up for the challenge?