Quality Administrator for Clinical Chemistry

Job overview

We are pleased to be offering the opportunity for a Quality Administrator to join our Clinical Chemistry team.

The Clinical Chemistry department at Nottingham University Hospitals comprises of both routine and specialist services, with two large laboratories supporting both local and regional services.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, friendly and well-motivated individual who is a good team player

Main duties of the job

In addition to the below summary you need to familiarize yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.

Working closely with our Clinical Leads and Senior Management Team you will play a vital part in ensuring a high quality patient led service remains central to all we do. With the ability to influence others through your leadership skills you will help to support our staff to embed our quality culture into everyday practices

The role will be based at Queens Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospitals Campus, which is part of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Working for our organisation

NUH NHS Trust is a large, teaching hospital comprising two sites, the Queens Medical Centre and the City Hospital. QMC provides acute services supporting a busy emergency service and trauma centre. City Hospital departments include Clinical Haematology, Oncology, Transplantation and Cardiac services. The Chemistry team contributes to the development of laboratory services which are patient focussed. These include both 24/7 acute, highly automated functions and specialist services embracing Trisomy Screening, Myeloma monitoring, Inborn Errors of Metabolism investigation and Immunosuppressant drug monitoring.

NUH offers a wide range of health and wellbeing activities and interventions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Provide general administration support to the Pathology Corporate and Senior management teams as required to support quality, risk and safety, training and business activities.

Administrative duties associated with the maintenance and update of various databases including but not limited to the Q Pulse, B.S.O.L and Datix electronic systems.

Retrieve and analyse data as requested. Providing data and graphical representations to Pathology Corporate and Senior management teams for inclusion in overarching reports.

Liaise with a variety of staff within Pathology and the Trusts as directed and act as point of contact for administration.

Support the Quality, Health and Safety, Business and Patient Safety portfolios of work as required by providing admin support.

Support in the ordering and invoicing activities for the Business office.

Administrative duties associated with the receipt, collection, handling, production and distribution of written materials and electronic records.

Assisting the audit processes.

Arrange meetings, book rooms as and when required including diary management.

Attend and take minutes of meetings, type and circulate as required.

Scanning, photocopying, filing and letter writing as required.

Deal with colleagues, patients, visitors and staff in a courteous and professional manner.

Being the point of contact for queries relating to the quality management system.

Provide training, once competent in the use of the quality management system.

Be able to work independently and manage own workload to make effective use of time and resources and working to Trust values and behavioral standards.

Support the Pathology Corporate and Senior management teams in the administration of the Pathology engagement activities.

Work flexibly and undertake other duties commensurate to the grade as required