Assistant Quality Assurance Manager

NHS Blood and Transplant ,
Barnsley, South Yorkshire
Salary: From £37,570 to £43,772 per annum

Overview

NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT Assistant Quality Assurance Manager £37,570 to £43,772 pa Permanent, 37.5 hours per week Location: Barnsley (Leeds or Sheffield initially) Ref: 918-QM5295 Whether your background is in pharmaceutical manufacturing or any other Healthcare quality management or auditing field, few organisations offer the impact of NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT). 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 and regulators, develop tailored solutions and respond to any incidents.From May/June 2020, this exciting role will be based at our brand new, state of the art centre in Barnsley (Unit D, Capitol Way, Dodworth, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 3FG), which is just off Junction 37 of the M1.In the meantime, you will be based from either Sheffield or Leeds Blood Centre, for which you may be eligible to claim expenses for the duration of this temporary arrangement. You will also support the QA Manager at Newcastle; meaning that there will always be travel and variety in your day to day work. A background in pharmaceutical or Healthcare quality management would be advantageous and, ideally, a relevant post-graduate qualification (or equivalent). It’s important that you are also a consummate professional who can build strong relationships and ask the right questions while keeping an objective view of the work. The normal working hours for this role are 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday. For informal enquiries please contact Samantha Rowlands (Regional QA Manager) Closing date: 15 March 2020 (subject to change). For further details or to apply, please click below. Take charge of your career and apply now.