Assistant Quality Assurance Manager - Technology

Job summary

This is an opportunity to build rapport with your direct customers and suppliers to help save and improve lives. Its great when you know you have been the pivotal conduit in consolidating views and applying effective and efficient controls delivering an IT development that is safe, compliant with regulation and reflects best practice. Great job satisfaction!

This role provides experience in the world of IT systems assurance in addition to the novel application of nursing/medical/scientific knowledge. NHSBT core IT systems are very extensive. This is a great opportunity to build knowledge of what it takes to control IT system changes, in a complex environment, in a manner that keeps patients and donors safe and meets the requirements of the various regulations applicable across the organisation. In this role you would take part in that challenge.

You certainly get opportunities for problem solving and innovative thinking. You can attain a great level of self-esteem - being relied upon for your knowledge, your decision making and delivery.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be part of a team of Assistant Quality Managers, working with other teams to ensure safe, efficient, and effective delivery of NHSBT IT systems software and hardware through testing and participation in software development, as required to support implementation of national IT systems throughout NHSBT. Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting a range of users at locations across the country to understand their needs, oversee software testing (including at supplier locations).
• Implementing systems that ensure we maintain our services to hospitals and make donation a great experience. This includes listening, watching, sensitively challenging and growing an understanding of the systems interfaces/integration and ensuring changes are safe and compliant.
• Supporting lean methodology, used across NHSBT; in our bid to strive for continuous improvement and to support governance. You will support methods to keep pace with changing IT methodology, technology and performance expectations.
• Providing specialist knowledge of the governance and regulation of NHSBT IT Systems and active support for the development of IT systems.
• Providing communication and understanding of IT Systems software changes at a local level.
• Promoting best practice in software testing.

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.