JOB SUMMARY
The United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is a system leader for health security; taking action internationally to strengthen global health security, providing trusted advice to government and the public and reducing inequalities in the way different communities experience and are impacted by infectious disease, environmental hazards, and other threats to health.
UKHSA’s remit, as an agency with a global-to-local reach, is to protect the health of the nation from infectious diseases and other external threats to health. As the nation’s expert national health security agency UKHSA will:
- Prevent: anticipate threats to health and help build the nation’s readiness, defences and health security
- Detect: use cutting edge environmental and biological surveillance to proactively detect and monitor infectious diseases and threats to health
- Analyse: use world-class science and data analytics to assess and continually monitor threats to health, identifying how best to control and mitigate the risks
- Respond: take rapid, collaborative and effective actions nationally and locally to mitigate threats to health when they materialise
- Lead: lead strong and sustainable global, national, regional and local partnerships designed to save lives, protect the nation from public health threats and reduce inequalities
Salary information: Grade 7 (£54,416-£64,485) or Afc Band 8a (£55,690-£62,682)
To work with the team of laboratory managers, deputy laboratory managers, departmental quality leads, laboratory equipment officers and laboratory staff and support the North West Regional Head of Operations in ensuring that the quality system in place at UKHSA Manchester regional laboratories are maintained and continually developed to ensure continued compliance with all required standards, regulations and guidelines.
To represent quality & governance on behalf of UKHSA Manchester regional laboratories and the MMMP in committee meetings and senior staff meetings.
To take a lead role in quality management across UKHSA Manchester regional laboratories and MMMP and make decisions independently relating to governance issues.
To liaise with the senior staff including the Regional Head of Operations, Laboratory Managers, Quality Leads and the laboratory teams in achieving, implementing and maintaining the accreditation in allocated laboratories. This will include advice on quality systems, accreditation and certification, as appropriate, and to lead continual improvement in quality processes.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Your key responsibilities will include to:
- Influence long term decision making, planning and project management in governance related areas within the MMMP and advise on governance issues
- Maintain close links between quality and governance arrangements, including supporting adverse incident investigation and management
- Implement quality improvements within UKHSA Manchester regional laboratories/MMMP as appropriate, involving the development of new protocols and procedures
- Produce assurance reports at regular intervals
- Support the Laboratory Quality Leads and Laboratory Equipment Officer
- Support laboratory staff to perform governance activities and monitor their effectiveness; review current Q&G reports
- Support the effective governance of the MMMP and ensure that this is consistent with UKHSA and MFT governance
- Influence governance management decisions
- Champion Change Control throughout the MMMP
- Provide expertise and practical support for preparation for, and organisation of, inspections by third party assessors, such as UKAS and certification bodies, commercial organisations, or research councils and to progress issues arising from these assessments and inspections
- Plan and carry out internal quality audits against ISO 15189 and any other relevant standards in accordance with approved audit plans.
- Prepare reports of audits and to communicate findings of audits to staff as appropriate. Drive quality issues arising from audits and to assist the laboratory staff to resolve these in a timely fashion
- Prepare and review international documents for accreditation and certification
- Troubleshoot and advise upon problems resulting from audits and interpretation of quality data
The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The Job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary.
NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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