Band 8b Quality Assurance Manager & RP

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Birmingham is seeking a Quality Assurance Manager to join their Warehouse and Logistics team. In this role, you will ensure compliance with EU Guidelines and support senior leadership in safeguarding medicine distribution. Responsibilities include managing the Quality Management System, overseeing audits, and providing regulatory advice. The ideal candidate will possess a Master's in pharmacy, extensive experience in Good Distribution Practice, and strong management skills. This position offers competitive compensation and a chance to influence important healthcare standards.

Qualifications

• Registered with GPhC or Royal Society of Biology Chemistry.
• Experience in managing teams and QMS.
• Knowledge of medicines safety and logistics.

Responsibilities

• Lead and maintain the Trust's Quality Management System.
• Act as Responsible Person for WDA licences.
• Manage recall procedures for medicines and devices.

Skills

Good Standard of General Education to GCSE

Qualified Clinical Pharmaceutical Scientist

Extensive experience in Good Distribution Practice

Management of Quality Management Systems

Ability to influence stakeholders

Education

Master's in pharmacy or equivalent

Post-graduate Masters Management Qualification

HND qualification or relevant experience

Job description

Go back University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Band 8b Quality Assurance Manager & RP

The closing date is 03 February 2026

We are seeking a Quality Assurance Manager to join our Warehouse and Logistics team. This is a rare opportunity in a competitive market, where your expertise will directly safeguard the safe and secure handling of medicines across the Trust. In 2025, our Year of Leadership, this role is central to strengthening governance, resilience and innovation. You will act as the named Responsible Person for Wholesale Dealer Authorisations, ensuring compliance with EU Guidelines on Good Distribution Practice (GDP) and supporting the Chief Pharmacist and senior logistics leaders.

Main duties of the job

• Lead and maintain the Trust's Quality Management System (QMS) in line with GDP.
• Act as Responsible Person for WDA licencesviv overseeing suppliers, subcontractors and risk assessments.
• Manage recall procedures for medicines and devices, ensuring timely and effective responses.
• Provide professional advice on legislation, licensing and quality standards to senior leaders.
• Oversee audits, inspections and CAPA processes, monitoring performance indicators.
• Ensure facilities, equipment and storage meet statutory standards, including validated temperature monitoring and secure segregation of hazardous products.
• Contribute to departmental planning, reporting and governance, including NHS Resolution and MHRA ########### A CQA standards.

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit yemek individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long‑term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job responsibilities

Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description.

Qualifications

• Good найб: Standard of General Education to GCSE or equivalent level.
• Master's in pharmacy or equivalent in-depth experience.
• Qualified Clinical Pharmaceutical Scientist or relevant equivalent experience in Pharmaceutical Science.
• Registration with GPhC or Royal Society of Biology Chemistry or Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Post‑graduate Masters Management Qualification or equivalent in-depth experience.
• необыч Evidence of CPD.
< TES> Suitable experience with the pharmaceutical distribution field and knowledge as outlined below to be eligible for Responsible Person status on a Wholesale Dealer Authorisation.
• HND qualification and/or relevant experience.
• Trained as an internal/External auditor.
• Responsible Person Training (Cogent recognised).

Experience

• Extensive good Distribution Practice of Medicinal products for Human use experience and operations of a licence holder.
• Knowledge of medicines safety, governance and procurement/warehousing/safe storage and distribution/inventory.
• Knowledge of professional procurement principles and supply chain management acquired through qualification or relevant equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of categories of persons to whom product may be distributed.
• Experience in managing Quality Management systems (QMS), Root cause analysis (RCA), and corrective and preventative actions (CAPA).
• Experience in the management of teams.
• Experience in managing budgets/risk assessments/health and safety.
• Experience in liaising with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to effectively influence other professionals at both senior management/clinical level.
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
< Klassiker> Substantial experience of managing staff.
• Planning and organising complex activities, sometimes with a degree of uncertainty, which require formulation, adjustment and coordination with other professionals within the organization.
• Knowledge of Clinical Governance and in particular Risk Management and the ability to apply these.
• Expert knowledge andride and understanding of audit and process.

Additional Criteria

• Ability to travel across all Trust sites.
• Flexibility with working hours if required to support the service.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust