Assistant Quality Assurance Manager - ATMPs

Overview

Whether your background is in pharmaceutical manufacturing or any other medical quality management or auditing field, NHS Blood and Transplant offers a unique opportunity to make a national impact. You’ll work with teams across the country to implement improving best practices, helping ensure our blood, tissue and organ donations save millions of lives. Our quality management and compliance systems are crucial to our success, and you’ll be their champion: keeping licenses up to date, helping teams follow guidelines, recording and reporting on evidence, and managing audits.

There will be some time behind a desk, but this is a people-centric role. You’ll meet teams, government agencies and regulators, develop tailored solutions and respond to incidents. A background in pharmaceutical or medical quality management would be advantageous.

Role summary

In this role you will support the Quality Assurance Manager – ATMP in the maintenance and development of the Quality Assurance function at the NHSBT Liverpool site.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Quality Assurance Manager to maintain compliance with all relevant licensing and accreditation standards for the site.
• Improve service delivery to customers by partnering with all stakeholders.
• Day-to-day involvement with colleagues at varying levels of seniority in many departments and centres regarding all elements of the Quality system, including quality incidents, audit non-conformities, change control & validation, and regulatory inspections.
• Produce reports and lead quality review meetings with department managers; facilitate investigations of adverse events to determine root cause and implement preventive actions.
• Participate in Operational Improvement events using LEAN principles and undertake projects or workshops to identify areas for and methods to improve services.
• Support all areas of Quality Assurance for the Advanced Therapy Unit (ATU) and the Clinical Biotechnology Centre (CBC) in the production of ATMPs / IMPs.
• Deputise for the Quality Assurance Manager and assist Lead Quality Specialists and the National Quality Assurance Manager(s) when required.

Qualifications

• Relevant post-graduate qualification (or equivalent).
• Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to ask the right questions while maintaining objectivity.

About NHS Blood and Transplant

It takes all types of people to deliver a service that saves and improves lives. NHS Blood and Transplant employs more than 6,000 people across the UK. We play a unique role in the NHS by helping people donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our core values are Caring, Expert, and Quality, guiding everything we do as we work to reflect an inclusive workplace and achieve outstanding quality.