Forensic Quality Manager-East Anglia

at  Mountain Healthcare Ltd

Do you work within health and safety and are looking for a change? Are you looking for the next step in your career? Do you want to work in a forensic healthcare setting that makes a remarkable, positive, and life-long difference to people’s lives? If the answer to the above is a yes, then this is the right role for you!
Here at Mountain Healthcare, we are looking for a passionate, determined, and resilient individual to join our amazing team as a Forensic Quality Manager. About the Role This Forensic Quality Manager role is a full time vacancy of 40 hours per week. Main duties: Developing relationships and working closely with United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS), Forensic Science Regulator (FSR), Forensic Service Providers and stakeholders such as the Forensic Capability Network (FCN) to ensure smooth and effective external assessments of the forensic disciplines, to identify the potential risks to the loss of accreditation or certification status. Reporting to top management on Quality Management Systems (QMS) status and areas in need of improvement.
Be regarded as the first point of contact for all communications relating to quality. Informing the customers, UKAS and the Forensic Regulator, of any significant non-conformances.. The implementation of the QMS that meets accreditation quality standards, specifically the FSR Codes of Practice and ISO15189, leading project plans and working closely with IT services and regional managers to ensure compliance. Plan and manage audit schedules comprising of internal horizontal, vertical and method witness audits and external surveillance audits for accreditation.
Supervise, train and mentor trainee internal auditors, and personally undertake audits of key areas. Provide the Head of Governance and Quality with up-to-date information on the progress of Corrective, Preventive and Improvement actions. Negotiate and influence managers to ensure compliance. Fully support all areas by providing specialist advice and guidance on all matters appertaining to accreditation.
Ensuring the service that the organisation provides is fit for purpose, remains consistent and meets both external and internal requirements. This includes legal aspects such GDPR, Health and Social Care Act and the FSR statutory requirements, and customer expectations, while maintaining an awareness of current legislation, updates, changes and introductions of new legislation. Please see attached the full Job Description and People Specification. Please Note: We may close this advert early due to high level of applications.
Company Benefits Enhanced sickness pay scheme Enhanced Maternity Pay after 1 year’s service Well-being programme Advanced rota planning for better work-life balance 6 weeks annual leave Pension Scheme Bonus Scheme Life Assurance Employee Assistant Programme Long Service/Team of the Month Awards A range of accredited and CPD training courses and masterclasses Funding for higher education courses after one years’ service DE&I Mountain Healthcare aims to create and encourage an environment that is committed to promoting equality, diversity, working inclusively, and valuing the differences that individuals can bring to the workplace. We uphold these principles in our organisational values and behaviours towards each other and our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexuality, or other personal circumstances

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