Job Summary

At NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Quality is at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for a Lead Quality Specialist who will be responsible for developing, implementing, and monitoring an effective, safety focussed and compliant quality management system (QMS). You will be assigned to one of our organisational Directorates or functions such as Technical Assurance, Blood Supply, Clinical Services, Plasma, Quality Management Systems etc, whilst providing support for other areas of the organisation and other directorates if it is needed.

You will be a key member of the Quality senior management team (Q-SMT), supporting the Quality Directorate in achieving its strategic objectives, whilst also ensuring our core business as usual activities are maintained and improved. Working with us, you will be required to horizon scan, provide guidance and support based on best practices and develop an innovative culture of collaboration.,.

You will also be leading a team(s) of Quality Assurance specialists, providing them with leadership and guidance within their role.

Main duties of the job

You will be required to:

Carry out informed questioning and challenging, trend analysis triangulation, risk awareness, proportionate response and proactively engage with quality improvement. Provide visible senior leadership and oversight of the quality and safety agenda in collaboration with other stakeholders, e.g., Risk, Business Continuity, Clinical Governance, ensuring attainment of real improvements for patient and donor safety. Lead portfolio(s) or key programmes of work arranged within a Directorate or across the organisation, supporting quality management, improvement, and safety system approaches as designated. Provide line management of staff, teams, or functions within portfolio or across a matrix. Provide safety compliance and regulatory expertise to operational areas for business-as-usual activities, and where we are developing new services and products. Take ownership and accountability for the status of the QMS aligned with the supported Directorate, and ensure it is maintained and developed. Develop, implement, monitor, and improve the necessary quality expertise and systems required primarily by the supported Directorate(s) to deliver an efficient and effective, nationally consistent, and accredited QMS and GMP system. You will ensure a validated QMS is always maintained to provide safe and efficacious products and services for patients and donors. Support the Assistant Director of Quality and Regulatory Compliance in the development and delivery of a Quality Strategy which support NHSBT and its delivery and safety focus.