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’ll 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.
As you’d expect, our quality management and compliance systems are crucial to our success. You’ll be their champion: keeping licenses up to date, helping teams follow guidelines, recording and reporting on evidence, and managing audits. Anything and everything that keeps us working in the most efficient and safest way. There’ll be some time behind a desk; but this is really a people-centric role. We’ll expect you to meet teams, government agencies and regulators, develop tailored solutions and respond to any incidents.
A background in pharmaceutical or medical quality management would be advantageous and, ideally, a relevant post-graduate qualification (or equivalent). It’s important you’re also a consummate professional who can build strong relationships and ask the right questions while keeping an objective view of the work.
This role will support the 3 northern ATMP sites (Barnsley, Liverpool and Birmingham) and there will be an expectation for the succussful applicant to travel to each site regularly dependant on current activity levels. The successful candidate is also expected to be on site 3 days a week.

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

• Understanding of relevant UK legislation and guidelines, e.g. Good Manufacturing Practice, Good Practice Guidelines for Blood Transfusion, ISO15189, General Data Protection Regulations and Freedom of Information; and any other appropriate statutory guidelines.
• Extensive experience of working in a regulated environment e.g. Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, NHSBT or equivalent.
• Competent and confident user of IT e.g. Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Experience of working with information technology using Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint).

QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING

• Masters level qualification or equivalent relevant professional qualifications or demonstrable knowledge and experience at Masters level.
• Basic Management Qualification or short courses in line management or relevant experience in managing others.
• Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD).
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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.

MAIN DUTIES

In this role you will support the Quality Assurance Manager - ATMP in the maintenance and development of the Quality Assurance function at the NHSBT Liverpool site. Your responsibilities will include:

• Working with the Quality Assurance Manager to maintain compliance with all relevant licensing and accreditation standards for the site and improving service delivery to customers by working in partnership with all stakeholders.
• Day to day involvement with colleagues of varying levels of seniority in many departments and centres regarding all elements of the Quality system including quality incidents, audit non-conformities, change control & validation and regulatory inspections.
• 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.
• Supporting all areas of Quality Assurance for the Advanced Therapy Unit (ATU) and the Clinical Biotechnology Centre (CBC) in the production of ATMPs / IMPs.
• Deputising for the Quality Assurance Manager and assisting Lead Quality Specialists and the National Quality Assurance Manager(s) when required.

You will be required to travel throughout the UK and spend some time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours and overnight stays when required, with prior notice.