Assistant Quality Assurance Manager ODT
NHS Blood and Transplant
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Job summary
Whether your background is in pharmaceutical manufacturing or any other medical quality management or auditing field; few organisations offer the impact of NHS Blood and Transplant. You will work with teams the length and breadth of the country to implement ever-improving best practices. In doing so, making sure our blood, tissue and organ donations safely save millions of lives. NHSBT has the vision of saving and improving patients lives. This role will support this vision by providing you with the challenge and opportunity to play a key role in the maintenance, development, and continual improvement of the NHSBT Quality Management system thereby ensuring our products and services are safe. You will be an important member of a small local Quality Assurance team working as part of a wider regional team with opportunities to with many other operational departments in the organisation. A background in pharmaceutical or medical quality management would be useful in this exciting role but not essential. Its important you are also a consummate professional who can build strong relationships and ask the right questions while keeping an objective view of the work.
Main duties of the job
In this role you will support the Quality Assurance Manager (QAM) in the maintenance and development of the Quality Assurance function of the site. Your responsibilities will include:
- Day to day involvement with colleagues of varying levels of seniority in many departments and centres regarding all elements of the Quality system including adverse events, audit non-conformities, change control & validation, concessionary issue and recalls.
- Developing relationships with external organisations including external Regulators and ensuring that any external requirements are incorporated safely into the Quality system.
- Producing reports and leading quality review meetings with department managers as well as facilitating meetings to investigate adverse events to their root cause and identify effective actions to prevent re-occurrence.
- Participating in operational improvement events using LEAN principles and projects or workshops to identify areas for and methods to improve the services we provide.
About us
It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too.
Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Date posted
20 December 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£46,148 to £52,809 a year
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
Reference number
005570
Job locations
NHSBT
500 North Bristol Park
Bristol
United Kingdom
BS34 7QH
NHSBT - Colindale
Charcot Road
London
NW9 5BG
NHSBT
Plymouth Grove
Manchester
M13 9LL
NHSBT
14 Estuary Banks
Speke, Liverpool
L24 8RB
NHSBT
Vincent Drive
Birmingham
B15 2SG
NHSBT - Tooting
75 Cranmer Terrace
London
SW17 0RB
NHSBT
Holland Drive
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE2 4NQ
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Blood and Transplant
Address
NHSBT
500 North Bristol Park
Bristol
United Kingdom
BS34 7QH
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