Quality Project Specialist - HVAC Replacement Programme

Quality Project Specialist

Job Summary

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 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: while providing support for the planning and implementation of development projects, and being a point of contact for day to day advice and guidance, you will also be expected to respond to incidents, manage change controls, validations and 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. With excellent communication and influencing skills you will be expected to build good working relationships with individuals working within the project board and project team to ensure product safety and compliance requirements are understood and adhered to. Given the need for awareness and adherence to statutory requirements you will have considerable previous experience working in Quality Assurance or a regulated life science / healthcare environment. MSc Degree qualified, or equivalent, you will also have a working knowledge of relevant standards such as the Good Practice Guidelines and Good Manufacturing Practice.

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.

Main duties of the job

• Provide support for key project planning and delivery for the Colindale programme
• Provide day to day Quality Management System (QMS) support to key individuals within the project teams being supported including advice and guidance on QMS Change Control, validation, Quality Incident Management, Root Cause Analysis, Document control and preparation and Provide advice, guidance and support surrounding supplier management
• Assist the wider Quality Assurance Team in the implementation and management of national initiatives and to support the Regional Quality Manager (RQAM) in their regional activities.
• Be required to travel and, with prior notice, spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours and overnight stays when required.

About You

Experience and Knowledge

• Relevant experience in a regulated environment e.g. Good Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Practice (GPMP), or equivalent
• Experience in quality at a senior management level
• Knowledge of Medicines legislation (GPMP), EU Blood Directives and law
• Knowledge General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), freedom of information & Customer Protection Act
• Experience of working with information technology using Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), or equivalent Systems

Qualifications and Training

• MSc in transfusion or transplantation or relevant science and examination via a professional body e.g. FIBMS or diploma from British Blood Transfusion Society (BBTS) OR equivalent specialist knowledge gained by experience
• Demonstrate commitment to own Continued Professional Development (CPD)

Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.

About Us

At NHS Blood and Transplant, we’re incredibly proud of the many talented people who come together every day to make our organisation the very best it can be. We have clearly defined values that are centred around offering exceptional care to our donors and their families. We take care of each other too and we focus on building our expertise so we can change lives, provide quality support and offer fulfilling careers.

It’s an opportunity to contribute to a unique team as part of a service that saves lives 365 days a year. We offer brilliant benefits including 27 days of holiday (plus bank holidays), a comprehensive induction and training programme, and competitive pension scheme.

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.

Together we’ll save and improve more lives than ever

This vacancy will close at 23:59 on Wednesday 7th June.

Interviews are anticipated to be held Week Commencing 26th June – subject to confirmation

For informal enquiries please contact Dapo Odumeru,Regional Quality Assurance Manager, Dapo.Odumeru@nhsbt.nhs.uk