Assistant Quality Assurance Manager

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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 cutting edge Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products are as safe as possible.

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 is part of the QA ATMP team based in Liverpool providing specialist Quality Assurance support for the Advanced Therapy Unit (ATU) for the manufacture of ATMPs, by the Cellular and Molecular Therapies (CMT) function within NHSBT. There will also be opportunities to provide support to other ATUs around the country as we work as a team.

Normal working hours for the role is 37.5 hours a week, working between 09:00 to 17:00 Monday to Friday.

• 1 Fixed term contract position ending 31st March 2022

This advert will close at 23.59 on Sunday 1st August 2021.

The interview date for this position will be Tuesday 10th August 2021.

If you want to discuss the role further, please contact Kwasi Dankwa - QA Manager – ATMP (kwasidanso.dankwa@nhsbt.nhs.uk) or Chris Stevenson - National QA Manager – ATMP (chris.stevenson@nhsbt.nhs.uk)

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NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) offers a dynamic and friendly working environment where teamwork is highly valued. Personal development is also considered a priority and is supported through extensive training and development opportunities open to all employees.

We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with and positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality.

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