Job Title: Quality Manager
Location: Whittington Hospital, Magdala Ave, London N19 5NF - near Archway Tube Station.
Salary range: Dependent on experience.
About the role:
Background:
It is an exciting and transformational time at the Whittington Hospital. Sonic Healthcare UK has recently taken on the management of the Pathology Laboratories and some 100 Lab staff have been TUPE’d over. To support and play a key role in this transformation we are recruiting for a Quality Manager who will be a key member of the Transformation Project Team and the key person for Quality Management on the site. Sonic Healthcare UK has robust Standard Operating Procedures to ensure the quality of our work is at a consistently high standard across all our sites. We invest heavily in refurbishing the Laboratories, both with equipment and the aesthetics of the workplace. Although you will be the main Quality person in this lab, you will form part of a much larger quality department that operates across the group, part of a dynamic team of over 20 Quality Managers, and you can tap in to their expertise, as well as provide your expertise to them in areas they may be less familiar with, thereby increasing your own knowledge and experience and providing coaching and mentoring to others.
Your experience will need to evidence:
Demonstrate experience in Quality Management, in a laboratory setting; You may have worked as a Biomedical Scientist before focusing on Quality, you may have worked in another capacity as a Clinical worker in a Pathology Laboratory.
You may already have experience of working in a hospital setting, or maybe you come from a Pharmaceutical background but with an interest in being much closer to the patients.
Your CV will demonstrate being the Quality Lead or the Representative detailing the skills and experience you have gained in Quality, detailing when you have conducted audits, your involvement in Incident Management, where and how you have used, and supported others, in the use of QPulse. Show us in your CV how you have trained others in Incident Management, how you monitor trends in incident management. Demonstrate when you have chaired UKAS meetings. We are looking for both breadth and depth of understanding in Quality.
The Role:
We have a vacancy for an enthusiastic, self-motivated Quality Manager who can lead and monitor quality aspect within Health Service Laboratories (HSL) at Whittington Hospital Essential Services Laboratories. This is an exciting opportunity to join the team during the department transformation to a new state of the art laboratory. The laboratory testing scope includes, Biochemistry, Haematology, Blood Transfusion, Andrology and Point of Care Testing.
You will be a key member of the department, developing and maintaining quality systems, working with the laboratory team and quality representatives to deliver the quality policies and objectives at HSL.
The post holder will have post graduate qualifications in Biomedical or Life Sciences and have significant experience of working as a Quality Lead in a Blood Sciences Laboratory. Experience of laboratory UKAS accreditation and Regulatory Inspections, good organisational and communication skills are essential.
Main duties will include administration, monitoring & implementation of the Quality Management System (QMS) and to oversee quality & compliance activities. Other duties include QMS training across group and to assist in the organisation of and chairing the departmental Quality Management Group meetings.
About us:
Sonic Healthcare is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical services across the world. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Sonic is an ASX Top 50 company that has grown to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers, specialising in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centres. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.
Sonic Healthcare UK encompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts. Over 2,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.
Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across the country. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, whilst also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.
Benefits:
A competitive salary and benefits package reflecting the responsibility of this role and the individual’s experience will be offered
At HSL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:
• Training and development opportunities – supporting professional development
• Annual performance related salary review
**• No banding restrictions: **As we are a private company we are not restricted by salary bandings and so are able to negotiate appropriate salaries based on experience. This also means that annual salary reviews do not hit a band ceiling.
• Discounted gym membership – we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms
• Cash healthcare plan – cash back on a variety of healthcare costs including dentist and opticians
• Sick Pay Entitlement – 5 paid days in the first year of employment, 20 days thereafter
• Permanent Health Insurance and Death in Service Cover
• Life Assurance – providing salary continuation for long term illness (six months qualifying period)
• Employee Assistance Programme – supporting staff wellbeing
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme – interest free loan for the cost of annual travel ticket
• Perkbox – Access to additional staff perks and benefits such as high street discounts
• Company Pension Scheme – company and staff contributions which increase with service
• Competitive annual leave allowance - 23 days
• Flexible working hours – 40 hours standard working week
Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.
We respect and value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from diverse communities.
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